PRAGMA · 2 weeks ago
Pre-Sales Solution Architect
PRAGMA is seeking a highly skilled Pre-Sales Solution Architect to join their team and support sales efforts by designing and presenting technical solutions. The role involves understanding client needs, crafting technical solutions, and providing architectural guidance to ensure robust systems across various environments.
Information Technology
Responsibilities
Collaborate with the sales team to understand customer requirements and design tailored technical solutions
Understand clients needs to structure the best technical solutions that enable and meet their business objectives
Lead technical discussions with potential clients to align their business needs with our capabilities
Make decisions to ensure architectures meet performance, scalability, flexibility, maintainability, and robustness requirements
Develop high-level solution designs, including architecture diagrams, technical proposals, and cost estimations
Provide architectural guidance for developing solutions, including integration with services and microservices, business process automation (BPM, ODM, RPA), and hybrid environments
Create Statements of Work (SOW) and support proposal development
Provide technical insights during client calls and meetings, addressing complex questions and removing blockers
Act as a technical liaison between sales and delivery teams, ensuring a seamless transition from proposal to project execution
Contribute to knowledge sharing and continuous improvement of pre-sales processes
Qualification
Required
Proven experience in a pre-sales or solution architect role, preferably in IT services or software development
Strong expertise in AWS and Azure, with a solid foundation in .NET technologies
Familiarity with designing cloud-based and hybrid solutions
Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Experience with risk assessment and technical proposal writing
Cloud architectures oriented to microservices (Azure and/or AWS )
OWASP Top 10 Security Principles
Integration principles and concepts
Foundational knowledge of SPA Front Languages and Frameworks
Foundational knowledge of Back-End Languages
Architectural design principles for transactional solutions
Foundational Knowledge of IaC
DevOps practices
SQL and No-SQL databases
Preferred
Experience working with tools like HubSpot is a plus
A strong understanding of the financial and retail industries is highly valued
Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or similar
Backends for Frontends (BFF) and function segregation patterns
Micro Front-End patterns
Identity Providers integrations
payments platform integrations
Azure Cloud Container managed services
AWS Cloud Container managed services
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Kubernettes and Docker
Salesforce (integrations and development background support)
Terraform
Benefits
100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for the employee
401(k) retirement planning (including company match upon eligibility)
Paid time off/sick leave
Paid holidays