Senior Networking Technical Architect

NTT Ltd.; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in technology services is seeking a Senior Networking Technical Architect to create robust network solutions that align with business goals. The role will involve extensive client consultations, strategic planning, and advanced technical design across networking systems. Ideal candidates will possess a strong educational background and relevant certifications, along with significant professional experience in network management and project oversight.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field required.
• Relevant vendor product certifications are a must.
• Advanced experience in networking and infrastructure necessary.

Responsibilities

• Designs technical network solutions based on business requirements.
• Acts as a trusted technical advisor to clients.
• Develops strategic plans for network capacity.

Skills

Advanced client engagement skills

Advanced understanding of network protocols

Advanced knowledge in Cisco Networking

Advanced understanding of IoT

Advanced understanding of cloud computing

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology

Certification in Enterprise Architecture methodologies

Tools

Cisco CCW

Job description

Job title : Senior Networking Technical Architect

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg Deadline : July 18, 2025 Quick Recommended Links

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Your day at NTT DATA

• The Senior Networking Technical Architect is an advanced subject matter expert, primarily responsible for interpreting business requirements into a technical network solutions framework and to provide technology roadmaps governed by strategic direction, business requirements as well as resourcing and financial constraints.
• This role specifies and designs solutions based on their technical expertise within the technology / domain focus area. This will include the ability to design the physical domain from the communications layer to networking protocols, network gear, interconnects, hardware for all services (apps, web, database, storage and HA / DR) and all cloud services for hybrid solutions.

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities :

• Analyzes, develops and recommends long-term strategic plans to ensure network capacity meets current and future network requirements.
• Viewed as a trusted technical advisor to the client.
• Responsible for solution design, business development, and transition of projects from presales to delivery and sales support.
• Provides pre-sales technical support and expertise in analyzing client requirements, in conjunction with the client’s current network and system capabilities.
• Ensures technical solutions will accomplish the client's objectives
• Work with internal stakeholders to produce a technical specification for the custom development and systems integration requirements for the solution
• Develops or produces the technical design document to match the solution design specifications.
• Working with the relevant internal stakeholders, participate or lead in scope of work determination, product pricing and RFP / RFI responses.
• Provides recommendations on the determination of outsourcing, product pricing and collaborates with others to develop an implementation solution.
• Responsible for influencing and guiding members of the Sales team and to ensure that they are equipped to close deals and maintain visibility of forecasting and sales pipeline in order to influence potential deals.
• Manages client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, which will require the involvement of the appropriate resources, and setup and delivery of the POC.
• On all assigned engagements, owns the proposed solution and transitions the build / implementation to the delivery team.
• Specifically relating to opportunity pursuit this role will evaluate each opportunity for alignment with organizational capabilities and business policy, prepare the executive summary that outlines all of the information gathered from the client in regard to their needs, as understood, document the proposed technology solution, document the statement of work along with all labor requirements, work with the relevant internal stakeholders to prepare the pricing format that will be supplied to the customer, perform the actual solution design and prepare a parts list outlining equipment to be provided, develop and manage a proof-of-concept as such may be required, engage all technical resources required for an accurate solution design, prepare a network diagram outlining the proposed solution, document all deliverables and what constitutes a successful completion, review the final parts list as supplied and submit all information to the applicable bid team for final assembly, verify the proposal’s accuracy and sign off on the final documents to be presented to the client, assist during the final presentation to the client as appropriate.

Knowledge and Attributes :

• Advanced client engagement skills coupled with advance technical consulting ability.
• Advanced understanding of the vendor’s products business and technology positioning.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with team members, contributing to their success
• Thorough product knowledge integrated with technology understanding.
• Advanced understanding of network protocols, topologies and security.
• Advanced understanding of routing and switching, wireless networks, SD-WAN, Data Center Networking (DCN), and IP addressing.
• Advanced knowledge and expertise in key Networking Vendors Solution such as Cisco Networking, HP Aruba Networking, Juniper Networking, Palo Alto Networking, Arista or other similar Vendor solutions.
• Advanced knowledge and expertise in key Intent-Base Networking Solution through controller such as Cisco Catalyst Center (DNA Center), Cisco ACI, Juniper Apstra, or other similar controller-based solutions.
• Advanced understanding of internet of things, big data, network management, quality of service, virtualization, cloud computing and big data.
• Advanced understanding of key vendor subscription models such as Cisco EA 3.0 and Cisco Smart Licensing model.
• Advanced ability to use vendor's available CPQ tools such as Cisco CCW and others.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications :

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science or information systems or a related field.
• Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (for example, TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.).
• Software and programming languages, for example, DevNet
• SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous.
• Relevant Vendor product, sales and / or technology certifications is a must.

Required Experience :

• Advanced demonstrable professional technical experience related to software development, systems design and deployment, or networking and infrastructure within a large scale (preferably multi-national) technology services environment.
• Advanced network management experience, including fault and performance management systems.
• Advanced experience in project management methodologies.