Solutions Architect

Unilogik Systems Inc; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consultancy in Metro Vancouver is seeking a professional for a technical consultancy and advisory role during the pre-sales process. The ideal candidate will engage with clients, offering technical assistance, formulating sales strategies, and improving professional skills. Key qualifications include a strong background in IT consultancy, exceptional communication skills, and a willingness to travel across Canada.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in technical pre-sales or consultancy in IT.
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to interpret customers’ business and technical needs.
• Experience with cloud computing and associated technologies.
• Willingness to travel across Canada.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers in a technical consultancy role during pre-sales.
• Provide technical assistance and solution guidance.
• Formulate and execute a sales strategy with the sales team.
• Build relationships within customer environments.
• Serve as the customer advocate for other teams.
• Continuously improve professional skills.
• Maintain competency in technologies related to the market focus.
• Identify RFPs/RFIs with marketing and sales colleagues.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers, both onsite and remote, in a technical consultancy and advisor role during the pre-sales process
• Provide customers with technical assistance and solution guidance.
• In partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy.
• Build deep relationships with people within customer environments.
• Serve as the customer advocate for other Unilogik teams, including Sales, Services, and Marketing.
• Continuously improve your professional skills through activities such as training programs, reading and mentorship learning.
• Maintain specialty competency in one or more technologies related to Unilogik’s market focus through activities such as training, certification.
• In collaboration with marketing, sales, and consulting colleagues, identify RFPs / RFIs as required as part of the overall sales motion

Requirements

• Proven track record in technical pre-sales or technical consultancy as a professional in the field of information technology
• Exceptional technical presentation and communication skills
• Ability to interpret customers’ business and technical needs
• Demonstrated experience working and communicating with multiple stakeholders and cross- functional teams (e.g. product management and marketing)
• Understanding of complex enterprise solutions and architectures
• Knowledge of the end-to-end software development lifecycle
• Experience with modern software development or operations and their associated technologies
• Experience with cloud computing and related technologies and practices
• Understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Willingness to travel across Canada

Technical Experience

• One or more certifications, e.g. Solutions Architect Associate or equivalent experience would be an asset
• Experience with emerging technologies like public or private cloud, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Services (PaaS), Linux Containers, container orchestration and management, automation and configuration management, DevOps and continuous integration and delivery (CI / CD), or modern application frameworks
• Knowledge of Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, CloudFormation, or Terraform for configuration management
• Knowledge of IP networking at scale, firewall and VPN architectures, DNS, and service delivery through load balancing techniques
• Troubleshooting skills in multiple popular languages, e.g. Python, Bash, Golang, C, and Java
• Experience with waterfall, Agile (SCRUM, Kanban, etc.) and able to discuss workflows for different software development processes
• Experience with modern development practices strongly preferred, including Kubernetes, Docker, Package Management, Application Security (SAST, DAST), Cloud infrastructure, and serverless
• Deep knowledge of software development lifecycle
• Software development experience
• Understanding of continuous integration, continuous deployment, and cloud-native technology