Responsibilities:

Provide technical and business consultative leadership throughout the technical life cycle of technical solutions.

Will be involved from pre-sales solution formulation through system deployment; including bid preparation and customer interface resulting in solutions architecture proposals for opportunities in Abuja region.

The Solutions Architect will develop and articulate solutions based on a customer's strategic business or technical requirements ascertained from working with multiple business units across the customer's organization.

Develop and propose solutions.

The Solutions Architect will prepare the technical solutions architectural and implementation design documents for all MainOne Product offering ( IP/MPLS, IPLC, Wireless Networks, Data Centre Collocation & Disaster Recovery, Carrier Metro Ethernet and Voice)

The Solutions Architect will work closely with the PMO to define project deliverables and schedules and help to identify and leverage resources in order to satisfy the technical needs and objectives of the implementation.

Assess solutions for their commercial merits and provide appropriate recommendations.

The Solutions Architect will maintain awareness of existing or potential customer software/hardware situations and proactively alert the project management, engineering, and customer facing groups of potential problems based upon strong working knowledge of software/hardware compatibility within the customer's environment.

The Solutions Architect will stay current on technical specifications for hardware/software requirements of industry products through professional associations, trade journals, networking, and associated training and seminars.

Convey customer feedback including feature requests and product issues to Product Management and Development teams.

Coordinate with Abuja sales team in formulating and building up proposal knowledge, including making technical demos and presentations to Main One customers.

Maintain and continually update technical understanding of products and providing advice to other team members where necessary.

Provide technical input & support to Abuja sales team as part of the sales process.

Assist in the translation of customer needs/technical requirements to appropriate solutions by liaising with customers to understand, anticipate and meet their specific needs.

Supervisor:

To work directly under the supervision of the Lead: Regional, Education, Public sector and Oil & Gas

Competencies Required:

experience with Cisco equipment essential.

In-depth level knowledge of networking technologies including but not limited to: TCP/IP (e.g. interpreting a packet trace file), WAN technologies,

VPN(Layer 2 & 3) , QoS, firewalls, WLAN, routers, switches, DNS, Metro Ethernet, SDH, EoSDH, DWDM, VOIP and Data Centre Designs

Experience in designing and deploying standardized Voip technologies; SIP and H.323

In-Depth knowledge of Radio/Microwave and terrestrial transmission systems.

Experience in telecom architecture.

Experience relating business requirements to system and infrastructure components and designing the bill of materials for a project.

Creative and innovative approach.

Proactive with a positive 'can do' approach

Sound commercial business understanding and risk aware.

Set up and maintain a best practice library of company proposals and architectural designs proposed to customers with success and conversion rate indicators.

Team player / Ability to work independently / Ability to work without supervision

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Information Communication Technology or E Engineering.

Cisco CCNA/CCDA/CWNA/CCIP/CCNP/CCDP

At least five (5) years industry experience

At least five (2) years’ experience in a Solutions Architect role.

Demands of the Job:

Strong background in solution design with focus on IP/MPLS/IPLC/Wireless/VOIP/Metro Ethernet/Data Centre Collocation/Cloud technologies.

Background in Telecom and/or satellite industry.

Problem solving

Prioritising workload of self and others

Written and verbal communications

Contract negotiation and influencing skills.

Relationship Management and Analytical Skills

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