Sr Cloud Solution Architecture-CTJ-Top Secret/SCI

Deliver solutions in line with company methodologies, ensuring proven practices and patterns are followed. Operate according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages/activities/tools of record. Business Impact Operate according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages/activities/tools of record (e.g., pipeline updates, time tracking). Proactively manage business and technical risks, adapt methodology and apply governance principles to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks. Continuously prioritize among competing demands in their work and identifies where impact occurs with customers, ensuring alignment with business priorities and goals. Deliver solutions in line with company methodologies (e.g., product offerings such as value-based deliverables [VBDs], advice, training, technical validation), ensuring proven practices and patterns are followed to prepare customers for operational readiness and achievement of their business goals and targets. Leveraging knowledge of change management proven practices and/or involving the change management team, proactively help the customer deploy for long-term organizational adoption to increase customer satisfaction and drive consumption/usage. Guide customers/partners towards a well-architected (e.g., secure, resilient, artificial intelligence [AI]-enabled), and cost- and performance-optimized solution to increase retention and expansion opportunities. Provide feedback to Unified Delivery Team on VBDs to refine and further develop content. Actively listen to and respectfully challenge customers/partners, building trust to then advocate for alternative architectures/solutions/approaches that shape and/or enhance customer requirements. Identify and evaluate industry trends (e.g., customer industry verticals, information technology [IT] industry), gather customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and map existing architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Proactively identify, escalate, and mitigate blockers using appropriate tools and processes to accelerate solution deployment, value realization and usage/consumption. Apply business, technical, industry, and/or enterprise knowledge to architecture or support projects to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified constraints. Build relationships with technical decision makers (TDMs), and helps build the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs). Provides assistance with partner and sales teams to bring clarity to specific opportunities through proof of concept and technical pre-sales support. Advises the partner throughout initial strategic customer implementations. Contribute to intellectual property (IP) and identify patterns where no IP exists (e.g., CoPilot and AI scenarios) to help build scalable and repeatable models. Provide thought leadership and innovation to customers/partners and internal communities at the local level. Leverage market insights and demand signals to assist leadership in identifying relevant areas in which to drive up-skilling and/or accreditations based on demand. Role models technical readiness, both depth-aligned to solution area priorities and breadth-aligned to Customer Success Unit (CSU)/corporate initiatives (e.g., security, resilience, AI), and influences team to drive their own technical readiness. Act as a mentor, leading readiness and upskilling activities in the team/organization by educating colleagues on technical and non-technical concepts and sharing proven practices. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field OR equivalent experience. 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination. Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment. Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience. 4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external). Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications). Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.