- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience 5 years
- Location Abuja
- Job Field ICT / Computer 
Solution Architect at IT Horizons Limited
Solution Architect
Responsibilities
- Speaking with customers via email, phone, physical meetings for initial requirement capture
- Builds relationships especially on C-level with customers and global partners that result in superior solutions and deeper loyalty and adoption of ITH’s solutions
- Maintain strong relationships with OEMs, in-market field sellers, partner under your area of concentration
- Keep up to date with various OEM product announcements and sales incentives and program under your area of coverage
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance
- Support sales team, prioritizing effort based on maximizing total impact on team productivity and profit, or as directed by Presales Lead or Sales Lead
- Proactively scopes the technical solution required to address customer requirements, assesses customers met and unmet needs, and recommends solutions that optimize value for both the customer and the organization
- Collaborates with sales, service, engineering, and technical support resources to ensure proposed deals include technical solutions that accurately address customer needs and are appropriately supported by key customer technical decision-makers
- Coordinates closely with internal sales, sales support, and service resources to align solution design with customers’ business requirements
- Opportunistically pursues additional business development opportunities within clients. Collaborates with sales to ensure these opportunities are effectively covered and advanced
- Meets assigned targets for profitable sales growth in assigned product lines, market areas, channel, or teams supported
- Maintains high customer satisfaction ratings that meet company standards
- Completes required training and development objectives within the assigned time frame
- Product presentations and demonstrations
- Deliver Proof of Concepts (POC)
- Support with technical qualification of sales opportunities
- Strong knowledge of Compute, Backup/DR, System and Microsoft Solutions
- Knowledge of Network, Wireless, Collaboration, and Security Solutions
- Recognize and actively seek ways to exploit IT to address complex business, organizational and technical issues
- Establishing the customer environment by designing system configuration, directing system installation, defining, documenting and enforcing system standards
- Design and implementation of new solutions and improving resilience of the current environment
- Configure and install various network devices and services as may be required
- Perform maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations
- Maximizing network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades and collaborating with network architects on network optimization
- Provide Level 2/3 support and troubleshooting to resolve issues
- Support of on-site engineers and end users/customer
- Liaising with project management teams, third-line engineers
- Investigate and resolve problems for services within your own area of responsibility; communicate to colleagues as appropriate, following ITIL processes; manage major network-related incidents and bring them to a satisfactory closure
- Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
- Updating job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks and participating in professional organizations
- Other duties may be assigned by your supervisor and management.
Requirements
- University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or other related courses or numerate disciplines
- MSc will be an added advantage
- Minimum of 5 years of experience
- Proven hands-on experience on compute system projects
- In-depth knowledge of the compute solution (server, storage, virtualization, cloud, backup, disaster recovery, converge/hyperconverge system, Microsoft solutions)
- Hands-on experience with monitoring, compute system diagnostic and compute system analytics tools
- Virtualization Certificate (VMware/Microsoft/Nutanix/RedHat)
- Storage Certificate (DellEMC/IBM/NETAPP)
- Server Certificate (DellEMC/IBM/HPE)
- Cloud Certificate (AWS/Azure/Oracle/Google)
- Backup Solution Certificate (CommVault/Veeam/Quest/IBM/DellEMC/Symantec/Veritas)
- Network Certificate (Cisco/Fortinet/Brocade)
- VCP/MSCE/ITIL/NPP
- ITIL
- Analytical and problem-solving ability
- Organizational skills and the ability to prioritize your workload
- Good at organizing and multitasking and prioritize under pressure
- Teamwork skills and the ability to feel comfortable working with different teams, clients and groups of staff across an organization
- Able to explain technical problems in a simple term
- Work well with people and willingness to travel.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@ithorizonsgroup.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
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