Pre-Sales Architect

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.
At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative and successful. And this is your chance to be part of the success story: we are looking for a Solution Architect to join our CMBG’s Solutions and Advisory Services Practice.


About CMBG’s Solutions and Advisory Services Practice:
The practice provides thought leadership and solution management across existing client accounts and the acquisition of new clients, working with the Sales and Account teams at the very start of the pursuit, shaping the value proposition and outcomes for our clients. It also works closely with the delivery organisations within Cognizant to agree the technical solution and delivery approach. Additionally, it is the focal point for shaping our portfolio services for the UK&I marketplace.
Join Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (CMBG) and help leading organisations and communities around the UK and Ireland to transform and achieve their business goals faster and more effectively. Contribute to the way we collaborate, operate, and deliver value to our clients and our client engagements. As part of our Solutions and Advisory Services (SAS) practice, you will lead technology innovation to shape, create and support the selling of world-class cloud solutions for our clients. You will be part of a growing team of cloud experts who are highly collaborative taking on today’s biggest, most complex Microsoft cloud challenges. We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. Come grow your career in Microsoft cloud services and technology at CMBG!


About the role
As the Pre sales Architect , you will work alongside Business Development and Client Directors, Solution Managers, Solution Leads and Azure Practice Group Leads (PGL) and own the detailing of the multi-domain solutions for our clients.
You must have a solid understanding of the challenges that our clients are facing, and how to address them using Microsoft cloud services and technologies across Applied Innovation (e.g., AppDev and Data & AI), Business Apps (D365 and Power Platform) Intelligent Cloud (Azure and IoT) and Intelligent Workplace (Endpoint / M365). This should be combined with experience and high-level understanding of large-scale cloud solutions architecture, novel commercial and delivery models, helping clients transforming into a cloud business, developing new services using digital, becoming more agile and resilient.


Key Responsibility Areas
Providing client advisory services and thought leadership to our strategic accounts.
Shape the end-to-end solutions with the right business value for the client, at the right price point, with the right commercial construct, and appropriate risk profile.
Shape the end-to-end solution with the right technologies and delivery methods, to drive the transformation required by our clients.
Deliver concise and impactful presentations on the value propositions and technical topics in front of a senior audience, including C-Levels.
Direct the Solution Managers and Leads on scoping the technical solutions, estimates and delivery approaches that best fits the ways of working which is specific to each client.
Direct the Solution Architects on scoping the managed services solutions, estimates and delivery approaches that best fits the ways of working which is specific to each client.


Requirements
We are looking for you who have a broad set of technology, delivery, and commercial skills, who can demonstrate an ability to shape our client’s transformation agenda, innovation roadmaps and new operating models.
Experience of delivering transformational programmes/projects, including scope that includes managed services and outsourcing.
Having lead large scale solutions using the Microsoft cloud technologies and services and other technology services.
Proven ability to engage, build, and foster a team-oriented environment, including working across matrixed internal, client, supplier and geographically dispersed virtual teams.
Provides formal and informal coaching on-the-job to grow team members to their full potential.
Excellent skills in leadership and workload management, with the ability to manage one or more large, complex programs/projects simultaneously.
Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.


Advantage
Certifications (Ideally Architectural qualifications such as Togaf or similar, ITIL, Cloud technologies at a fundamental level e.g. AZ900, DP900)
Knowledge of the Swedish language


What you can expect
Become part of a the ‘flag ship’ success story - We go through enormous growth!
Organization driven by technology – We have a tremendous technology backbone
Open, ‘can do’ team spirit
Environment where you can make your own ideas reality
Drive your own career
Market conform benefits