Presales Solution Architect

As a Solution Architect, you will collaborate with our sales, presales and COE teams to provide technical expertise and support throughout the new business acquisition process. You will play a crucial role in understanding customer requirements, presenting our solutions, and demonstrating the value of our products.

• You thrive in high-pressure environments, maintaining a positive outlook and understanding that career growth is a journey that requires making strategic choices. You possess good communication skills, both written and verbal, enabling you to convey complex technical concepts clearly and effectively. You are a team player, customer-focused, self-motivated, responsible individual who can work under pressure with a positive attitude. You must have experience in managing and handling RFPs/ RFIs, client demos and presentations, and converting opportunities into winning bids. You possess a strong work ethic, positive attitude, and enthusiasm to embrace new challenges. You can multi-task and prioritize (good time management skills), willing to display and learn. You should be able to work independently with less or no supervision. You should be process-oriented, have a methodical approach and demonstrate a quality-first approach.
• Ability to convert clients business challenges/ priorities into winning proposal/ bid through excellence in technical solution will be the key performance indicator for this role.

What you'll do

• Architecture & Design: Develop high-level architecture designs for scalable, secure, and robust solutions.
• Technology Evaluation: Select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and platforms for business needs.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Design cloud-native, hybrid, or on-premises solutions using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Integration: Ensure seamless integration between various enterprise applications, APIs, and third-party services.
• Design and develop scalable, secure, and performant data architectures on Microsoft Azure and/or new generation analytics platform like MS Fabric.
• Translate business needs into technical solutions by designing secure, scalable, and performant data architectures on cloud platforms.
• Select and recommend appropriate Data services (e.g. Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI etc) to meet specific data storage, processing, and analytics needs.
• Develop and recommend data models that optimize data access and querying. Design and implement data pipelines for efficient data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL/ELT) processes.
• Ability to understand Conceptual/Logical/Physical Data Modelling.
• Choose and implement appropriate data storage, processing, and analytics services based on specific data needs (e.g., data lakes, data warehouses, data pipelines).
• Understand and recommend data governance practices, including data lineage tracking, access control, and data quality monitoring.

What you will Bring 

• 10+ years of working in data analytics and AI technologies from consulting, implementation and design perspectives
• Certifications in data engineering, analytics, cloud, AI will be a certain advantage
• Bachelor's in engineering/ technology or an MCA from a reputed college is a must
• Prior experience of working as a solution architect during presales cycle will be an advantage

Soft Skills

• Communication Skills
• Presentation Skills
• Flexible and Hard-working

Technical Skills

• Knowledge of Presales Processes
• Basic understanding of business analytics and AI
• High IQ and EQ