Senior Manager: Backup & Recovery Architect and Technical Sales Advisor

Company Description

Deloitteis a leading global provider of audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax, and related services. Building on more than 175 years of service, our network of member firms spans more than 150 countries and territories. Together, Deloitte’sapproximately 457,000 people worldwide make an impact that matters. Learn how Deloitte makes an impact that matters atwww.deloitte.com.

About our Cloud Practice

Deloitte is an industry leader in our clients’ Digital transformations. We recognize that the backbone enabling our clients’ highest aspirations for analytics and cognitive solutions is next-gen Cloud infrastructure. From cloud consulting, to implementation, and ongoing managed services we offer a full scope of Cloud services and solutions. We want talent who is ready to innovate cloud services and empower our clients to leap-frog in their technical capabilities. Building your career at Deloitte offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge Cloud technologies to deliver next-Gen Cloud solutions. We embrace the tech pioneer mindset and always enable our talent to keep their skills evolving at the speed at which the technology marketplace is evolving.\

Are you looking to make an immediate impact by helping our clients architect hybrid cloud solutions, migrate workloads, and implement enterprise backup and disaster recovery strategies?

Deloitte's Core Business Operations (CBO) portfolio operates at the centre of our client’s IT transformation. By joining our team, you will help C-suite executives and programme leaders transform their organisations through emerging hybrid cloud technologies, IT resilience strategies, and workload migration frameworks.

Deloitte’s Cloud Engineering team consists of technical thought leaders and cloud architects who design hybrid cloud, workload migration, and disaster recovery solutions for enterprises. Our Cloud team is at the heart of technical solutioning and leads the modernisation of enterprise IT infrastructures.

Work you'll do

As a Backup & Recovery Architect and Technical Sales Advisor you will lead the design and implementation of enterprise backup and recovery solutions across hybrid environments. You will work closely with clients to assess current-state capabilities, define target-state architectures, and transition backup services into modern, policy-driven platforms.

You will develop disaster recovery strategies aligned to RTO/RPO requirements, regulatory compliance, and cyber resilience principles. Your responsibilities will include conducting technology assessments, building technical runbooks, supporting DR test planning, and ensuring operational readiness.

In addition to delivery, you will support technical sales initiatives by contributing to proposals, RFx responses, and client engagements. Your trusted advisor role will involve working with pre-sales teams and service delivery leads to provide insight into backup trends, vendor capabilities, and service integration approaches

Proposals, Business Development & Technical Sales Support:

• Assist in proposal development and RFx responses for backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Conduct technical assessments, client workshops, and solutioning sessions to align client requirements with leading practices.
• Identify business opportunities, network at industry events, and support business development strategies for resilience offerings.
• Provide technical leadership during steering committee meetings and architecture discussions.
• Develop and present PoCs and solution blueprints that demonstrate backup maturity, automation, and recovery capabilities.
• Collaborate with vendors, partners, and internal teams to stay up to date on technology roadmaps, regulatory trends, and market needs.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, backup, or disaster recovery architecture roles.
• 3–5 years in client-facing and technical sales roles, supporting business continuity or resilience programmes.
• Professional-level certification in backup, cloud, or storage platforms (e.g., Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup, AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional).
• Proven track record of designing and implementing enterprise backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Hands-on experience in hybrid backup operations and DR simulations in enterprise environments.

Technical Requirements:

• Enterprise Backup Architecture – Strong understanding of data protection platforms such as Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, etc.
• Disaster Recovery Planning – Experience defining DR strategies and building recovery runbooks aligned to business continuity goals.
• Hybrid Recovery Design – Ability to design backup and recovery for workloads spanning on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments.
• Compliance & Retention – Knowledge of data protection regulations including ISO 27001, POPIA, GDPR, and related retention policy design.
• Monitoring & Reporting – Experience implementing backup monitoring, job tracking, alerting, and reporting solutions.
• Technical Sales & Client Engagement – Experience supporting pre-sales teams, client workshops, and proposal development.

Our people and culture

Our diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture empowers our people to be who they are, contribute their unique perspectives, and make a difference individually and collectively. It enables us to leverage different ideas and perspectives and bring more creativity and innovation to help solve our client most complex challenges. This makes Deloitte one of the most rewarding places to work.

Professional development

From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to build new skills, take on leadership opportunities and connect and grow through mentorship. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career.

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day.We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. Weseek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.

Note: The list of tasks / duties and responsibilities contained in this document is not necessarily exhaustive. Deloitte may ask the employee to carry out additional duties or responsibilities, which may fall reasonably within the ambit of the role profile, depending on operational requirements.

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