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Solution Architect - Digital Workplace

Polar Recruitment are currently recruiting on behalf of a leading IT Services client for a Solution Architect - Digital Workplace to join a dynamic and highly successful Consultancy Practice.

The Solution Architect - Digital Workplace will be focused on driving market leading solutions around Digital Workplace transformation, providing internal and external strategy and thought leadership, and supporting account teams with pre-sales campaigns and customer opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer opportunities, develop a good understanding of their business and technical requirements, articulate strategies, roadmaps and technology solutions aligned to these needs
• Develop close working relationships with key internal and client stakeholders, becoming a trusted advisor to customers
• Lead and support pre-sales and assurance of proposed solutions & services, including responses to large scale, complex customer opportunities (including ITT’s, RFP’s and RFI’s)
• Provide technical governance and assurance
• Work with Services, Marketing, and Solutions teams to produce though leadership and product information for go to market propositions, including enablement and education for internal sales teams and consultants
• Engage within a broad virtual team to develop future offerings
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of key vendor offerings and competitors in the market.

Skills & Experience

The Solution Architect - Digital Workplace will have skills and experience including;

• Proven experience in a similar senior Solution Architect position within the IT Services space.
• A thorough understanding of IT infrastructure and digital workplace architecture, in support of complex enterprise customer environments and digital transformation programmes
• Sound technical knowledge of Windows 10 and Office 365 including all aspects of business value, use case and migration.
• Broad technical knowledge within digital workplace solutions including client and application management, enterprise mobility, hybrid services, digital identity and end-user collaboration
• Proven experience of stakeholder management at CxO level
• Proactive approach in building relationships with customers, vendors and partners
• Strong commercial skills - experience of business case development, creating solutions/services cost models, identifying risks, governance policies and processes etc.
• Proven understanding of business, IT architecture/project management frameworks and methodologies (recognised accreditations desirable)
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills, including high quality documentation skills and presentation experience with mid to large-sized audiences
• Full clean driving licence and willing to travel widely for assignments.

The Solution Architect - Digital Workplace will be rewarded with a challenging and stimulating role, working on exciting assignments with cutting edge technologies, allied to attractive salary and benefits package and excellent career advancement opportunities with a market leader in the IT Services space.