Enterprise Architect

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fuelled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2022 global revenues of £22 billion.

Relevant Exp required: 15-20 years.

Role:

• The APAC Center of Excellence (CoE) works on a wide range of accounts & projects, across a wide range of clients in all sectors. COE will focus & work very closely across all the Business Units.

• As an Enterprise Architect you will get exposure to the following types of roles responsibilities

• Presales Architecture – responsible for the specification, design, cost, and proposal of solutions to meet formal client requirements. Significant client facing work is required.

• Bid technical leadership – responsible for the technical leadership coordination and solution proposition on large outsourcing hosting deals. Experience and evidence of architecting and leading delivery of complex cloud projects must be a core capability.

• Responsible for Billing (50%) & generate revenue via order booking, focus on CM% (Contribution Margin)

• Technical ownership of COE driven programs/projects & provide/mediate technical consultation.

These are some of the standard responsibilities that we would expect you to be able to have experience delivering:

• Responsibility for supporting the development and closing of Apps service opportunities for the COE.

• Define and implement a structured way of handling each services opportunity – client meeting/solution pitch/RFP response/RFI response/presentation/etc.

• Take the lead/participate in opportunity assessment, qualification, developing response strategy, proposal development, review and feedback process, competitive positioning, pricing/commercial decisions.

• Lead client visits – from the stage of planning, identifying key participants, story board for the meeting, reviewing content, planning demos/team discussions and front ending the discussion.

• Assist the sales team in prospecting with relevant technical pitch and market/company specific data.

• Generate collaterals, case studies, white papers, and assist sales in service evangelism.

• Take on complex project delivery roles, as required, to ensure service quality and to support individual and team billable utilization targets.

• Support the development of project and consultancy portfolio items and offers for the practice.

• Demonstrable experience of selling and/or delivering Apps related transformations

Detailed knowledge and experience of some of the following:

• Architecture Framework (TOGAF/IAF) is desirable.

• Solutioning technologies like Paas, IaaS, DevOps, DevSecOps, CI-CD

• AWS and/or Azure platform features and capabilities

• Kubernetes and Containers

• Automation and orchestration tooling such as Packer, Terraform, Cloud Formation

• Proven track record of selling services projects and consultancy bids during the presale’s perspective.

• Demonstrated performance in complex solutioning and innovative deal construct.

• Consultative, value-proposition/business case driven pre-sales methodology experience.

• Strong techno-commercial/business orientation and cost sensitive.

• Self-driven and motivated, comfortable with change/ambiguity

• Financial management experience: estimating, budgeting, pricing, risk assessment.

• Execute on assigned RFP/RFI/proposals/proposal sections and deliver a high-quality response in terms of content, formatting and value-adds.

• Hands on experience in writing proposals and delivering customer presentations.

• Hard-working, detailed, quality, and deliverable oriented.

• Excellent communication and written skills.

• Excellent presentation and proposal/RFP skills.

• Completely flexible and mobile to travel globally, as required.

• Own the overall technical elements on a solution/programme.

• Development of architectural solutions within the programme

• Worked on bids and costing of architecture solutions.

• Point of contact to senior stakeholders (internal and external) related to technical Architecture.

• Manage any dependencies, risks, and requirements between stakeholders.

• Excellent awareness of current IT trends (Cloud/Agile/DevOps) and products that can influence client’s decisions.

• In depth strategic view on outcomes, methodologies, and process

• Provide and manage an effective Architecture governance model.

• Experience working on and have delivered complex Cloud, EUC or Datacentre transformations for large clients.

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