Job Description

Singapore, SingaporeCompany: Singtel GroupNCS is the leading technology services firm that operates across the Asia Pacific region in over 20 cities, providing consulting, digital services, technology solutions, and more.We believe in harnessing the power of technology to achieve extraordinary things, creating lasting value and impact for our communities, partners, and people. Our diverse workforce of 12,000 has delivered large-scale, mission-critical, and multi-platform projects for governments and enterprises in Singapore and the APAC region.We\'re searching for a Cloud Architect (Azure) to be part of our diverse team of talents here at NCS!If you believe in going above and beyond, want to exemplify the best, and wish to bring people and technology together like never before, then we would love to have a conversation with you!OverviewThis is a customer facing role, working on pre-sales engagement and alignment of services to the delivery team. You will own the Azure Cloud Infrastructure technical customer engagements including architectural design sessions, specific implementation projects and/or pilots.The ideal candidate will have experience in customer-facing roles and success leading deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Management.What we seek to accomplish together:

• Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap. Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies (e.g. Windows and Linux IaaS, Security, Networking, etc)
• Ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment
• Assess the Customers\' knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness during presales engagement
• Apply Azure Cloud Adoption Framework, Design Patterns and Well-Architected Framework to solution design during pre-sales stage
• Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform
• Provide sizing for the solution architecture design and work with NCS partners where required
• Be able to work with implementation team to handhold them with solution design and handshake the agreed solution to the delivery architect for implementation
• Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community
• Work with Head of Cloud as the competency leader to create new service offerings as well as to contribute to the development of service description, scope of work of the new offerings
• Work with Head of Cloud to optimize existing offerings with updates to service descriptions, scope of work
• Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, as well as internal communities and be a mentor to guide new members for training and certifications

A little bit about you:

• Degree with 5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation
• Azure Solution Expert Certification is required
• Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies
• Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences
• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management required
• Deep domain expertise of cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS)
• Expert Knowledge in Containers and Policy-as-Code, IaC would be advantageous
• Knowledge in GCC presales working knowledge and other cloud platforms will be advantageous
• Azure Sentinel knowledge and real working experience will be advantageous

As Asia\'s leading technology services firm, NCS as part of the Singtel Group, aims to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders. We aspire to create the extraordinary, to impact millions of people every day, and to create a positive impact on our environment. Our sustainability strategy sets out the key Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) areas that aim to create the NCS impact for our clients, our people and our future.We Grow our People, Value our Clients, and Create our Future.We want to change the way we live and work for the better, to create new and sustainable business growth, and to foster an inclusive future for all.You can find out more about our Group\'s sustainability focus to guide how you can contribute to our objectives at .About NCS GroupWe believe in building a talent-led delivery model to enable our best people to lead, and to support them with the right structure, processes, and tools to ensure that our clients are delivered top quality services. Great work is never done alone, which is why we also believe in fostering a collaborative work environment where people with different expertise and talent can come together.We\'re here to make the extraordinary happen.Find out more at ncs.co and our LinkedIn career site.We handle all profiles with the highest level of confidentiality.

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