About the job
As a Sales Solutions Architect at NCS, you will play a pivotal role in analyzing, designing, and developing comprehensive roadmaps and implementation strategies that bridge the gap between current and future state solution architectures. You will assess immediate business needs to prioritize objectives, analyze architectural requirements, and ensure alignment with IT strategies. Success in this role requires a keen understanding of weaknesses and opportunities, along with a proactive approach to identifying competitive and environmental threats.
In a rapidly changing business landscape, you will support complex and significant deals, leveraging your familiarity with various industry architectural methodologies, frameworks, and modeling tools, as well as product development approaches. Staying updated on the latest technological advancements is essential for this role.
Collaboration is key; you will work alongside technology teams across both onshore and offshore locations, ensuring that the solution design meets organizational and client expectations. Following contract award, you will facilitate the transition of the solution to the mobilization team for effective implementation.
As a leader in addressing cross-technology challenges and risk mitigation, you will need to present innovative ideas and diverse perspectives to client executives. Strong leadership and communication skills are crucial, as is the ability to influence key stakeholders while maintaining a creative and innovative mindset.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide presales technical support to client service teams
- Analyze client specifications to manage multiple solution workstreams
- Drive the integrity of solution designs that meet client business objectives, creating differentiated value propositions
- Coordinate and prepare solution deliverables (e.g., cost estimates, risk assessments, proposals) in accordance with internal governance processes
- Ensure architectural designs are agreed upon by internal stakeholders and external clients, collaborating with practices to develop viable solutions
- Maintain an objective viewpoint to advise senior leaders on technical value and solution guidance for clients and the community
- Adhere to all standards and quality expectations
- Develop solution patterns for recurring issues
- Serve as an expert resource for technical interventions

