Job Profile Summary
You will be an Enterprise Digital Architect in Softserve’s Digital Transformation unit. Your primary responsibilities are to deliver value for customers by providing guidance and creating actionable Technology Strategies, Business Cases, Operational Models, and best practices to underpin Digital Transformation strategies. This role will be focused on shaping, winning, designing, and delivering Digital Transformation programs. The role will focus on value creation, revenue generation, and high-quality programmatic delivery.
You will work in teams with other Digital Transformation specialists as trusted client advisors. You will lead the Enterprise Architecture in some of SoftServe’s flagship accounts and strategic opportunities, ensuring all solutions' technical components are aligned to create high-value and actionable outputs to accelerate our clients’ Digital Transformation journeys.
You will work with a range of client IT stakeholders, including the CIOs, CTOs, lead Enterprise Architects, etc., and a range of business stakeholders. You will naturally be able to understand business needs, structure business problems, identify potential architectural solutions to solve problems, and have the client handling, communication, and interpersonal skills to shape and align disparate audiences to a standard and agreed solution.
In program delivery mode, you will help lead the delivery of some of the solution's components, operate in Design Authorities, and work with solution and platform architects to ensure that the solution's technical integrity is maintained through implementation.
You will engage with Softserve’s pre-sales/CoE and practice teams/ Delivery and Client partners to proactively identify opportunities leading to downstream revenue. As part of the engagement, you will also work closely with solution and platform architects embedded in these accounts to drive initiatives.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Expertise: proven track record of navigating a clients’ end-to-end Digital Transformation program from strategy, phantomization, cloud migration, modernization, and optimization
- In creating: supporting strategies, governance, adoption roadmaps, and operating models to support Digital Transformation programs
- In developing business cases, TCO, and ROI models to support Digital Transformation programs
- As a trusted advisor: for key stakeholders in the client (CIO, CTO, lead EA) to create and identify opportunities
- Savvy: proven track record of working with broader teams (CoEs, Sales, practice teams, delivery teams) to shape, develop, and convert opportunities into large and profitable projects and programs
- Problem-solving: adapt to evolving business landscapes and emerging technologies, coupled with a strategic approach to problem-solving.
- Leadership: act as a thought leader for clients in pre-sales and sales in client discussions including tech days, Executive briefing sessions, strategic workshops, etc.
- The building of repeatable patterns and reusable artifacts: Leading the building of, and contribution to, repeatable digital technology patterns and artifacts such as industry-specific reference architectures and API/Integration patterns and Microservices archetypes
Preferred Competencies & Experience
- An extensive experience and recent proven track record of success in IT Consulting or IT Management Consulting with regional or global consulting firms (Big 4, SIs or boutiques) with delivery and business development success and growth
- An established history combining consulting, sales, and delivery; experience delivering workshops, assessments, strategies, roadmaps, designs, and deployment plans.
- A demonstrated record of creating & executing digital/technology-orientated client transformation programs to drive strategies, optimization, and modernization.
- A track record of developing and expanding client relationships with an executive focus, to present strategic content and drive transformation across a broad range of stakeholders (executive, tech, etc.)
- Shape large complex, multi-competency deals across the Softserve portfolio of practices (e.g., Cloud, Platforms. AI, Strategy, Custom Application Development, Network & Edge, Security, Resiliency, etc.)
- Articulate the vision for modern engineering (e.g., agile, cloud-native, DevOps) and operations (e.g., observability, automated response, SRE, etc.) and able to articulate a path toward a target operating model (people, process, and tools)
Required Skills
- More than 10 years of Digital technologies and IT experience
- Experience delivering large-scale Digital Transformation programs and projects in complex enterprise environments.
- Operating for 3 years in a similar client-facing role, driving opportunities, revenue, and delivery, engaging with senior stakeholders
- Industry knowledge in any one of the following industries (Banking, Retail, Manufacturing, Health Care, Life Sciences)
- Deep familiarity and experience at one of the leading EA frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF, ArchiMate, and Gartner EA.
- Deep understanding of Digital Transformation strategies and solutions enabled by any of the three major public clouds AWS, Azure or GCP
- Deep expertise in application modernization and Microservices
- Extensive experience in platform technologies, specifically Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow
- Versed with Hybrid Cloud security solutions, including Cloud-native security
- Experience in conducting Cloud assessments and migration approaches and methodologies, as well as Cloud design patterns including Landing zones
- Understanding of Cloud-native capabilities such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc, cloud-native platforms such as OpenShift, Pivotal and EAI/Middleware stacks
- Understanding of Cloud service management/Operating models
- Understanding of Data infrastructure solutions such as Hyper-converged, Virtualization, Storage, SD-WAN
Supervisory Responsibilities
Qualifications
- Education: bachelor’s degree related to or supporting the industry segment advanced degree(s) preferred, including MBA
- Certifications: digital certifications are a plus but not required
Other Requirements
- Extensive travel (case by case basis)
SoftServe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, veteran status, and other protected characteristics under applicable law. Let’s put your talents and experience in motion with SoftServe.