Pre-sales Solution Architect with a product development company

Hi, we are looking to hire a Pre -Sales Solution Architect for ObjectFrontier Services (OFS). 

What it means to be part of OFS

• To be part of a rapidly growing product development company with a dynamic and flat work culture.
• High Employee satisfaction. The average tenure of an employee is higher than the industry average
• On the job training on the latest technologies with assessments and deployment into live projects for hands-on experience 
• No variable pay. CTC components are fixed
• Client facing roles hence possibility for onsite travel

 Job Description:

• Keep technical communications and business skills current with an emphasis on understanding emerging technologies • Coordinate closely with internal sales, sales support, and service resources to align solution design with customer's business requirements. • Pro-actively scope the technical solution required to address customer requirements, assesses customer's met and unmet needs, and recommend solutions that optimize value for both the customer and the organization. • Secure input from all necessary solution stakeholders within the customer firm. Adapt solutions, as necessary, to ensure appropriate support. • Provide coaching and professional development to team members, sales associates in order to enhance their product knowledge, technical acumen, and technical sales skills. • Pursue additional business development opportunities within customer firms. Collaborates with sales to ensure these opportunities • Know when to say "YES" and when to say "NO" when  scope creep attempts to manipulate software architecture  • Monitor customer support for technical solutions proposed throughout the sales process, and alert the sales and account teams to potential risks of deal closure. • Own responsibility for creating or selecting the most appropriate architecture for a system (or systems) while making a proposals • Work closely with executives to explain the benefits and justify the investment in software architecture of a solution • Inspire, mentor, and encourage colleagues to apply best practices  • Act as "subject matter expert" in assigned area of responsibility • Responsible for thought leadership, business requirement definition, architecture definition, consulting collaboration, solutions development and sales support for a set of target accounts. • Develop resolutions fixing our customer's key business problems • Grow strategic trusted advisor relationships with the client based on respect and results • Build successful Solutions including technology components and help take them into the marketplace • Develop close relationships with key clients and define requirements to validate and incorporate feedback from clients • Create value Propositions by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of these technologies and where OFS is uniquely able to meet client requirements • Define pricing and work with executives to get buy-in and approval for pricing • Respond to RFI's and RFP's and work with Business Development Organization on proposals. • Work with business units, software developers, security, and IT to design and build applications and services within AWS and/or other cloud providers • Provide end-to-end solution expertise to determine best architecture and cloud services to meet the business requirements. • Advise OFS Clients and staff on cloud-based solutions that will improve service delivery and support as appropriate. • Document processes and procedures in managing and securing solutions / infrastructure making sure best practices are always followed. • Stay up to date with existing and new cloud services, providing guidance to technical teams as available cloud capabilities evolve. 

Mandatory Skills

Solution Engineering, Experience in RFP/RFQ, ASP.Net Web API,  LINQ/Parallel LINQ, ADO.Net , Enterprise Library, Entity Framework, SQL Server (SSRS & SSAS), Microsoft Azure, Angular.js/Knockout.js, Any NoSQL DB Skills, Design Principles and Patterns, Agile Practices, C#, Visual Basic.NET, Java SE 8/7, Java EE 7/6, Hibernate/Mybatis/JDO/JPA, Jersy/DropWizard, Weblogic/WebSphere, Javascript,Node.js , Linux/Unix, Windows/Mac, Python, AWS 

 Experience Level: 8 to 12 years, Should have worked in Presales Solution Architecting role for atleast 1 year. 

Please write to us or call us at 9551682562 for any further information. Kindly circulate to your contacts/network if you are not interested. Thanks for your time and appreciate your help.