Job Description :
Responsible for providing technical/non-technical consulting & advisory services for clients, leading and executing infrastructure transformations and/or transitions.
This role functions in both pre-sales and post-sales capacity with broad horizontal skill sets and a core competency in datacenter, network and cloud services. Sr SAs are competent in key areas such as solution design, implementations, operations, relationship building and client interaction.
Responsibilities include understanding and evaluating current Data Center and Cloud implementation and operations at client sites, and designing and implement new solutions.
Demonstrates experience in leading a team of technical experts while working with sales, delivery and support teams to analyze, design, troubleshoot, and implement architectures and solutions in order to best meet client requirements, and follow best practices.
Responsibilities:
Strategic and Operations planning including staffing for a number of projects/programs
Set the direction and actively lead a team of SMEs, Technical experts and participates in implementations, migrations, transitions and escalation support on projects
Demonstrate technical and advisory skills for customers, sales and other consultants, and effectively communicate the technical and business message
Work with Sales and Delivery teams to provide technical and business expertise
Establish and maintain excellent relationship with Customer and Business Units
Audit infrastructure, create roadmaps and provide recommendations
Provide other team members with in depth knowledge of new advances in Data Center related technologies
Required Skills:
Minimum 15 years relevant experience in leading teams in architecture, implementation, support, operations and migrations in a datacenter and public cloud environment
Must be able to independently lead diverse and multi-region teams, and take complete ownership and responsibility of the teams and solutions
Must have experience in managing large teams
Must have the ability to work on multiple large scale projects
Must have hands on experience in virtualized environments
Must have experience in implementing hyper-converged, discrete and public cloud solutions
Must have a good understanding of various infra layers like Network, Compute, Storage/Backup and Public Cloud
Worked in large DC/Cloud Migrations for enterprise clients. Must have done Transitions, transformations, Technical client management
Good knowledge and experience with project management methodologies
Exceptional communications capabilities, giving presentations and public speeches
Must be a good leader able to build, nurture, motivate and mentor team members
Must be a solid team player with excellent analytical skills and a strong desire to continue learning and expanding skill sets
Bachelor’s degree in IT/ Engineering/MBA or other management qualification