Cloud Solution Architect

Job description

·  Job Description:

DXC is looking for Cloud Solutions Architect (SAs) in the XXX area who are experienced technologists with technical depth and breadth across technology stacks with deep hands on skills. CSAs build architectures & provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, and mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, and security. They are passionate about working with customers to help build applications at scale and find solutions to their problems. They have the ability to enable innovation through continuous deployment in DevOps with technologies like Chef and Puppet, build web/mobile scale-out applications using Memcached, IoT use cases, and implement big data analytics with technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, HDInsight, Big Query, etc..

As a Solutions Architect, you must be self–motivated with a proven track record of delivering results in software/technology sales or consulting. You will have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, create technical definition around customer objectives in complex situations, develop solution strategies, motivate & mobilize resources, and deliver results. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect. The CSA team provides a ramping program that includes self-paced learning, instructor-led training, hands-on projects, job shadowing opportunities, and a peer-reviewed opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge.

Major Responsibilities

·  Partner with the sales team to design solutions for customers, drive cloud adoption and revenue.
·  Be an evangelist. Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of cloud.
·  Establish credibility & build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
·  Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new and migrating existing applications, software and services on the cloud platform.
·  Conduct deep-dive “hands-on” education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using cloud.
·  Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the cloud SA community.
·  Author or contribute to cloud customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, tutorials, etc.
·  Present sessions at cloud and industry conferences.
·  Technical liaison between customers, service engineering & support teams.
·  Role requires approximately 25% local travel.

Key Qualifications

·  7+ years design & implementation experience with distributed systems/applications
·  5+ years experience in infrastructure and/or database architecture
·  Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
·  Technical degree required; Computer Science or Math background preferred