Telecom Consulting Architect - Olympia, United States - Raas Infotek

Description

• Articulate solution design, integrating both technical and business concepts, and present a transformational journey to project stakeholders.
• Carry billable activities such as: technical contribution and guidance in project planning, lead in high level and low-level design, solution validation, impact analysis of change requests, etc.
• Use your Telco and cloud infrastructure knowledge to engage with Telco customers and drive use case requirements discussions
• Create high and low-level telco-grade designs while functioning as a resource for "Best Practices" and driving adoption of VMware solutions.
• Maintain current, high-level technical knowledge of the entire VMware Telco Cloud product lines and future product direction and expert level knowledge of the core VMware product line and your specialist areas
• Use your VMware and Kubernetes professional certification levels to design and deliver Telco Infrastructure automations, onboard Cloud Native Network Functions and assist in scripted infrastructure projects.
• Assist in the development of our consulting service offerings as well as developing white papers and best practice
• Participate in the pre-sales process and help drive understanding of customer's business and technical objectives inside VMware while helping the Sales team build client relationships.
• Leveraging hands on technical skillset and help to quickly build trustworthy relationship with customer in pre-sales stages through technical workshops, RFX responses, PS solution customization, scoping exercises and LOE estimation etc.
• Drive professional service solution and sales in your accounts.
• Act as lead architect/technical governance in post-sales deliveries together with regional delivery organization.
• Maintain a long-term relationship with customer and drive add on sales during delivery.
• Drive efficiency in delivery model
• On job enablement to regional delivery organization
• Assist with refinement and optimization of customer lifecycle and VMware Telco Cloud portfolio.
• Work closely with Product and Engg to give field feedback on new product and roadmaps, and be the pioneer of learning, selling, and delivering new technologies to Telco customers.
• Support crafting enablement content when needed.
• Above all we drive successful business outcomes for our customers and provide valuable insight to our product teams.

• Deep understanding of the telecommunication market and NFV/SDN context, standards, technology and use cases
• Experience in customer-facing positions as a professional services architect, consultant or engineer, preferably with a Telco consulting firm or a network solution, equipment or software vendor
• Cisco CCNA/CCNP/(optional CCIE) or equivalent level/certification
• Five years recent experience in architecting and designing Data Center Automation and Network Function Virtualization Private Cloud Solutions
• Understanding of cloud native application concepts
• Experience with workflow systems and automation solutions and portals
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional certifications or VMware Certified Design Expert certification or TOGAF certified
• Bachelors or Masters degree or equivalent technical training
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills