Technical Architect Automation

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**Want to be a part of our team?**

As our Consulting Services continue to expand, we are currently looking for a Technical Architect in IT Automation

You will leverage that expertise to perform consulting engagements, participate in presales activities (where appropriate), act as a trusted advisor to our clients and ensure technical end-to-end coherence in the project delivery phase.

**Working at NTT**

You will operate in both smaller and more complex environments, combining your knowledge of infrastructure elements together with the automation software landscape. In this capacity we will need you to deliver on the following:

- You will be expected to **conduct **consultative engagements with clients to assess their current automation state and define a target architecture that align their business requirements and their automation ambition. Those engagements are mainly composed of:

- an evaluation of a client current automation maturity;
- the identification of user/business stories and an evaluation of their implementation gains and difficulties;
- the elaboration of an architecture that responds to those needs and an associated prioritised roadmap of evolution.
- You will **drive **those engagements across the complete client journey including the delivery phase where you will ensure the technical end-to-end coherence of the proposed solution.
- You will **develop **standardized consultative engagement templates in response to reoccurring client needs. As owner of such you will be expected to maintain such engagement templates as well as developing sales enablement collateral (e.g., case studies or short descriptions), and raise internal awareness of such engagements.
- We will rely on you to build and develop **business cases** based on such assessments and present and explain the value of proposed infrastructure to clients in a consultative manner.
- You will **design **solution architecture and multi-phased migration programs that address technology, people and/or organisation and process change. You will do this in collaboration with our multiple centres of excellence.
- We will need you to maintain broad based technical and solutions knowledge in key **IT infrastructure optimisation** and solution areas.
- We will rely on you to **research **and investigate emerging infrastructure technologies and the best practices associated with them (e.g., related to deployment, integration and operation).
- You will be required to drive profound understanding of **solutions**, **best practices** and consulting **methodologies **with clients and colleagues.
- You may be called upon to **mentor **or **coach **other NTT people.

**What will make you a good fit for the role?**
- Minimum Bachelor in ICT (Master strongly preferred).
- At least 10 years’ experience in **infrastructure architecture **or related business.
- You have strong knowledge in the **design**, **deployment**, and **support **of large automation deployments.
- You love maintaining a **helicopter view** on the whole infrastructure, from networking aspects to cloud computing and serverless functions with a continuous focus on security.
- Knowledge of **automation technologies** like Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins.
- A good understanding of the **cloud landscape** (Azure, AWS, GCP) and their respective automation tools and API’s.
- You have a good understanding of **software development **and can translate their needs into an automated infrastructure that follows DevOps best practices. This includes knowledge in automating and optimizing environments by managing infrastructure through code (Infrastructure as Code) and implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Good **business acumen **allowing identification of business opportunities and our clients’ business needs, and delivery of consultative engagements in line with these.
- Strong knowledge of **industry technologies** and willingness to further maintain and broaden this knowledge.
- Emotional and stress **resilience **and ability to autonomously achieve challenging goals.
- Clear and persuasive **communication **and ability to interact with various stakeholders in a consultative engagement.
- ** Analytical thinking** and excellent problem-solving ability as well as an appreciation for rigour and objectivity.
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