Presales Solution Architect, Johannesburg

Our client has an opportunity available for a Presales Solutions Architect based in Johannesburg.

Requirements:

• 3-year degree in ICT disciplines or related.
• Fluent in English and the language of your country.
• Relevant UCC, Cloud and Networking Certifications such as Current Cisco Network certifications or other.
• 5+ years' experience in IP, UCC network and ICT related area of specialization.
• 5+ years of supervising and managing others within a technical environment.
• Experience working in a large organization.
• Experience managing highly technical staff.
• Large revenue project and bid response in the last 2 years.
• Willing to travel regionally.

KPAs:

• Drive profitable growth for the company.
• Manage staff to build and maintain continuous technical relationships within corporate customers and partners.
• Focus on providing exceptional client experience.
• Approve complex customer designs and pricing before submission to the sales environment.
• Ensure a culture of operational excellence.
• Ensure designs are within approved operational limits as per product specifications.
• Manage relationships between Presales solution architects and the companies COE's, Sales, TES, Procurement, Commercial pricing and the customer.
• Ensure Subject matter expert disciplines are maintained.
• Install appropriate employee excellence.
• Act as an ambassador and role model for the company enterprise business.
• Drive a culture of high performance, accountability and consequence management.
• Ensure appropriate governance and control measures.
• Drive the implementation, tracking, monitoring and compliance of projects.
• Contract, risk and project management.
• Ensure that benchmarking is conducted with other companies and organizations.
• Ensure POCs are managed correctly for customer pilots and products testing.
• Manage and evaluate staff performance.