Managed Services Strategy & Portfolio Architect

Coretek-Services; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Coretek seeks a commercially minded Managed Services Solutions & Portfolio Architect to bridge presales, offering development, and delivery readiness. You will partner with Account Executives, clients, delivery leaders, Finance, and technology partners to shape complex opportunities while creating standards, documentation, pricing tools, and enablement to scale the Managed Services portfolio.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on technical credibility with consultative selling and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience across managed services, IT consulting, technical product management, solutions architecture, presales engineering, or related client-facing technology roles.
• Demonstrated success designing, productizing, positioning, and selling managed services in a multi-client environment.
• Experience creating presales and offering documentation, including service briefs, proposals, SOWs, RFP responses, technical standards, and seller enablement assets.
• Strong understanding of managed services operating models, recurring revenue economics, service levels, governance, transition, support processes, delivery readiness, and continual improvement.
• Experience developing pricing models, scoping standards, cost assumptions, margin analysis, and commercial structures for complex services.
• Ability to communicate credibly with engineers, end users, business stakeholders, and C-suite executives.
• Ability to lead technical discovery, solution workshops, executive presentations, and cross-functional decision making with minimal supervision.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical and operational discovery with engineers, business leaders, and executive stakeholders to understand business outcomes, current-state environments, pain points, risk, decision criteria, and budget considerations.
• Translate requirements into end-to-end managed services solutions that define scope, service levels, operating model, governance, tooling, integrations, staffing assumptions, transition needs, dependencies, and client responsibilities.
• Present solution architecture, service outcomes, value, assumptions, risks, and differentiators to technical and executive audiences.
• Support complex and strategic pursuits, including RFP/RFI responses, executive briefings, proofs of concept, and multi-tower managed services opportunities.
• Create, launch, maintain, and continuously improve outcome-oriented managed services offerings from concept through operational adoption.
• Develop service briefs, FAQs, solution playbooks, standard architectures, scope and responsibility matrices, contract language, SOW content, and delivery acceptance criteria.
• Establish technical, scoping, and packaging standards that make offerings easier to sell, price, contract, onboard, and support consistently.

Skills

Managed services

Presales engineering

Solutions architecture

Commercial acumen

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, business, or related field

Tools

Azure & Azure Arc, Microsoft 365, AWS, ServiceNow, Tanium, Elastic, Zscaler, Commvault, Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Pure Storage, NVIDIA

Job description

Coretek seeks a commercially minded Managed Services Solutions & Portfolio Architect to bridge presales, offering development, and delivery readiness. You will partner with Account Executives, clients, delivery leaders, Finance, and technology partners to shape complex opportunities while creating standards, documentation, pricing tools, and enablement to scale the Managed Services portfolio.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on technical credibility with consultative selling and