Service Architect

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What you'll be doing

The Services Architect is a subject matter expert and a pre-sales persona working with clients and sales/delivery teams in a value co-creation process resulting in the design of Managed Services solutions across multiple technology domains. This role is responsible for the development of competitive, innovative, secure, multi-year, viable Managed Services solutions and associated costing inputs to commercial models. The Services Architect applies both solution design and sales attitude to engage and help close opportunities with decision-makers. This role has the opportunity to design managed services with some of the most innovative global organizations, technologies, accelerating the digital transformation business objectives and outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Guides a virtual team of domain experts to orchestrate the development of secure, multiple year, solution services.
• Designs complex managed service solutions to meet client requirements by integrating technology and service design across multiple domains.
• Works across multiple teams in the design of the Managed Service offering.
• Tests and validates new designs features and delivery models or recommend improving existing service offers that are being taken to market.
• Responsible for the service design deliverables of the solution and interfacing with multiple teams and partners to ensure supportability.
• Directs the validation processes by obtaining sign-off from technical, service and costing stakeholders.
• Leads the service design of solutions for the client that will be commercially competitive whilst mitigating risk.
• Maps the client's requirements against proposed set of service elements and architectures and leads the end-to-end solution development.
• Supports the sales teams in presenting an architecture solution to clients with a focus on cost savings or uncovering other client growth opportunities using the ability to discover and analyze the client’s current architecture, platforms and operating models.
• Responsible for vendor management depending on the service offers and ensures that the transition to service delivery teams are well coordinated to ensure a smooth transition.

To be successful in this role you are asked to have:

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in IT/Engineering / Economics field equivalent degree;
• Broad level of knowledge across Enterprise Architecture, Managed Services, Service Management consulting, and multiple solution services areas (e.g., Networking, Security, Hybrid Cloud, Digital Workplace);
• Ability to develop a service transformation architecture to deliver the transformation business, investments, activities, deliverables, schedules and risks across all service delivery;
• Proven experience in designing and implementing new delivery models in a significant globally federated delivery organization;
• Certification and working knowledge of ITIL, Service Management and Integration models;
• Good sales attitude;
• Proven client engagement experience;
• Good knowledge of main hyperscale cloud providers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google);
• Fluent in English (written and verbal).

We offer:

• A people centric culture;
• A collaborative work environment;
• Career and training pathways;
• Multinational environment with local nuances;
• Respect and inclusion for any kind of diversity;
• Hybrid working approach;
• Inclusion approach: the recruitment process will also consider candidates based on law 68/99.

Company location: Milano (close to MM Romolo)

About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.

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