Desired Skills and Experience

  • Provide the CTP Sales team with end-to-end technical solution support services from lead qualification through hand-off of a signed SOW to the Delivery team
  • Take on responsibility for opportunities, potentially involving any stage of the cloud journey from data center migrations, cloud infrastructure build-outs, and application modernization to IoT, Big Data and cloud-native application development and managed operations.  
  • Participate in approach, strategy, and/or sales calls with assigned member(s) from the Sales team
  • Thoroughly understand CTP’s offerings and products in order to shape appropriate solutions to meet client needs
  • Lead technical solutioning and scoping to generate estimates and approaches for proposals and SOWs
  • Create compelling proposals and deal models for all assigned sales opportunities
  • Create well-crafted SOWs, partnering with Sales and SMEs and obtaining internal approvals
  • Participate in client meetings to review proposals and SOWs
  • Work with Staffing group to identify appropriate resources for project roles defined in SOW
  • Ensure a smooth hand-off of closed deals to the assigned Delivery team
  • Attend internal and client-facing kick-off meetings as a Client advocate
  • Monitor project activities and create any necessary Change Orders and/or follow-on SOWs for assigned engagements
  • Establish a repeatable scoping/pricing framework for CTP client engagements
  • Contribute to the development of tools, documents and materials for the TCS Practice Area
  • Stay abreast of cloud best-practices and emerging cloud technologies.
  • Travel to client locations for sales meetings and kick-off meetings (up to 50%)
  • Provided technical pre-sales or comparable support, specifically in a professional services environment.
  • Interacted with clients to gather technical information necessary to define the appropriate engagement approach to meet client needs
  • Advised and acted as a sounding board for sales strategy and approach planning  
  • Produced well-crafted, winning proposals, SOWs, and effort estimates working collaboratively with Sales and Delivery SMEs
  • Gained recent cloud experience in a hands-on or project leadership capacity. AWS, Azure, or Google preferred.
  • At some point in career, provided hands-on contribution or project leadership for enterprise software development or architecture/infrastructure projects.
  • Strong client service orientation - ability to develop productive relationships and demonstrate high credibility to earn “trusted advisor” status
  • Strong business acumen with excellent reasoning and problem-solving skills 
  • Detail-oriented with the ability to thrive in a complex and highly consultative sales process 
  • Superior verbal and written communications skills as well as presentation and facilitation skills with the ability to whiteboard technology solutions  
  • Ability to discuss best practices in cloud architecture/infrastructure buildout and/or development and deployment of cloud applications
  • Experience with CI/CD tools and processes, as well as Infrastructure as Code. Ability to communicate value proposition of both for a cloud environment
  • AWS, Azure, or Google certification, or the ability to achieve certification within 90 days of hire, in any of the following - Solutions Architect, Developer, or Systems Ops
  • Experience with cloud-based application development and cloud-based architectures such as microservices. At a minimum, experience with modern web-based application development with services-based architectures
  • A passion for learning new technologies
  • Highly self-motivated and results-oriented approach with a flexible, “whatever it takes” attitude
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous/pressure situations.  Ability to collaborate and work well within a team 
  • A quick learner, able to digest and apply new learnings, eager for feedback
  • Works to deadlines in fast-paced environments and thrives in flexible day-to-day work
  • Willing to travel regionally, nationally and internationally up to 50%
  • Believes in working in a “continuous improvement” environment
  • A sense of humor!
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