Solutions Architect Job at IT Horizons Limited

IT Horizons Limited is a company with diverse talents and skills in existing, recent and upcoming technologies worldwide. We are a team of young, vibrant, ambitious, but experienced professionals who deal with everything relating to technologies, especially information and communication technologies (ICT).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Solutions Architect
Job Location: Abuja

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for scoping, designing, and developing Bill of Materials with pricing for solutions relating to Networks & Collaboration Solution and Intelligent Building Management System.
• You will architect for other areas of solution as the company deem fit from time to time.
• Your goal is to win the customer with innovative solutions that solve customers’ problems at a price points that gives competitive edge without compromising quality and integrity.
• You will interface with external vendors, OEM, and sales team in ensuring optimum performance of the solution areas under your portfolio.
• You will guide the company on technological trends on areas you manage from time to time.
• You will be responsible for achieving the financial target of the business for the area of solutions you manage.
• The performance of the solutions will be evaluated from time to time as deemed fit by the organization.
• You will be part of a team that is responsible for designing and developing scalable solutions that is in line with customer requirement.
• Speaking with customers via email, phone, physical meetings for initial requirement capture
• Strong knowledge of Compute, Backup/DR, System and Microsoft Solutions.
• Knowledge of Network, Wireless, Collaboration, and Security 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 programs under your area of coverage.
• 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
• Coordinates closely with internal sales, sales support, and service resources to align solution design with customers’ business requirements
• Meets assigned targets for profitable sales growth in assigned product lines, market areas, channel, or teams supported
• Opportunistically pursues additional business development opportunities within clients. Collaborates with sales to ensure these opportunities are effectively covered and advanced
• Maintains high customer satisfaction ratings that meet company standards
• Completes required training and development objectives within the assigned time frame
• 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.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance.
• 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
• Maximizing network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades and collaborating with network architects on network optimization
• Updating job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks and participating in professional organizations
• Deliver Proof of Concepts (POC)
• Product presentations and demonstrations
• Support with technical qualification of sales opportunities
• 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.
• Provide answers to (technical) questions in a Request for Information (RFI) or a Request for Proposal (RFP).

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or other related courses or numerate disciplines.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience.
• MSc will be an added Advantage
• 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), ITIL
• Good at organizing and multitasking and prioritize under pressure
• Able to explain technical problems in a simple term
• Work well with people and Willingness to travel
• In depth knowledge of the compute solution (server, storage, virtualization, cloud, backup, disaster recovery, converge/hyperconverge system, Microsoft solutions)
• Analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Teamwork skills and the ability to feel comfortable working with different teams, clients and groups of staff across an organization.
• Organizational skills and the ability to prioritize your workload.
• Proven hands-on experience on compute system projects
• VCP/MSCE/ITIL/NPP
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, compute system diagnostic and compute system analytics tools

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@ithorizonsgroup.com using the Job Position as the subject of the email.