Principal Cloud Services Architect

About the role

As a Principal Cloud Services Architect at NTT DATA, your expertise will shine as you create complex, innovative cloud solutions that meet and exceed client expectations. You will engage closely with our clients and sales/delivery teams, blending solution design with pre-sales activities to drive value co-creation. Leveraging your skills, you will help design secure, multi-year Managed Services solutions and play a pivotal role in their implementation.

Each day, you'll design advanced managed service solutions that integrate seamless technology and service design across the cloud domain. Your role includes leading the Managed Service offering's design, testing and validating new features, and enhancing existing service offers. You will interface with delivery and R&D teams to ensure our solutions are innovative, competitive, and secure. You will map client requirements against a set of service elements and architectures, leading the full solution development process. You will facilitate workshops, analyze client architecture, and present solutions that highlight cost savings and growth opportunities.

Your work will involve defining service elements, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation, and developing robust transition documents and roadmaps. You'll remain engaged post-implementation, ensuring smooth transitions and participating in renewals where necessary. You'll mentor sales teams, coach colleagues, and act as an advisor, sharing insights and driving our commitment to excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, multi-year Managed Services solutions and lead their implementation.
• Lead the design of Managed Service offerings, test and validate new features, and enhance existing service offers.
• Interface with delivery and R&D teams to ensure innovative, competitive, and secure solutions.
• Map client requirements against service elements and architectures, leading the full solution development process.
• Facilitate workshops, analyze client architecture, and present solutions highlighting cost savings and growth opportunities.
• Define service elements, ensure compliance and risk mitigation, and develop transition documents and roadmaps.
• Remain engaged post-implementation to ensure smooth transitions and participate in renewals.
• Mentor sales teams, coach colleagues, and act as an advisor to drive excellence.

Requirements

• Extensive understanding of cloud technologies, networking, security, and system administration.
• Advanced grasp of multi-cloud technologies, cloud-native workflows, and legacy-to-cloud migrations.
• Applied experience with Azure, GCP, and AWS infrastructure architectures.
• Deep knowledge of Managed Services delivery models.
• Strong ability to work with costing models, collaborating closely with sales and finance.
• Proficiency in communicating the value of solutions to stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to facilitate workshops to gather requirements and present solutions.
• Collaborative mindset, thriving in team environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology/systems or a related field.

Pay

The starting pay range for this remote role is $111K - $207K annual salary plus a 10% bonus target compensation. Actual compensation will depend on factors including the candidate’s work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.

Schedule

Hybrid Working

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers, and application services.

Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 70 countries and offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.