Solution Architect Manager - France

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Architecture Design and Deployment Creates a culture and clarity around technical insights and escalations, and ensures broad sets of projects move forward. Provides support and guidance to team in identifying scenarios that could slow or impede pre-sales/delivery. Anticipates blockers and resolves escalations as needed and coaches team on best practices for handling escalations. Ensures that issues and blockers and addressed and recorded by the appropriate groups. Identifies widespread patterns in blockers across business areas or territories. Develops strategies to prevent blockers and issues in the future. When necessary, attends steering committee meetings with strategic customers to remove blockers and ensure delivery success. When appropriate, governs areas of fiscal responsibility, through delivery team, staying within budget while driving engagement profitability and risk management.Collaborates with the other managers to jointly drive project/technical governance of the design, build, and deployment into use of proof of concepts (POCs) and pilots. Provides end-to-end governance, oversight, and thought leadership within assigned account. Provides guidance to team in understanding and demonstrating business value (e.g., release of revenue, cost savings) that the business solution realizes. Guides team in defining and documenting the SFI architecture through an architecture description document, an architecture decisions log, and a requirements/risk/constraints traceability matrix. Ensures team is equipped to communicate the value proposition of the business solution along with the project approach. Guides team in cost-based and technology-based discussions to explain the architecture in terms of its build, deployment, and ongoing operational use to determine customer appetite for the business solution. Promotes a business-value approach that values return on investment (ROI) and customer costs-savings over technical ease of execution. Provides coaching to allow architects to scale solutions. Works in close collaboration with the Project Manager and Account Team to anticipate, identify, categorize, and communicate business and technical risks (including security). Defines risk mitigation activities that are foundational to the project plan. Defines risk contingency plans for invocation should the risk occur. Outlines methodology and governance principles and practices for the broader organization that allows others to minimize risks. Oversees maintenance of the risk log.Guides team in working with the business sponsor and customer/partner stakeholders (e.g., Business users, Enterprise Architects, Security Team, Operations Team) to gather and ratify requirements and constraints. Supports team in managing and resolving highly complex ambiguity in the requirements and constraints (including legislative and regulatory) and documents assumptions and implications where it cannot be resolved. Ensures maintenance of the requirements/constraints traceability matrix to prove that solution components have a rationale/justification for inclusion in the architecture of the business solution. Oversees development and execution of test plans by SMEs to prove that each requirement/constraint has been implemented as expected by the customer, and includes security features and controls in test plans. Leads team in collaborating to understand the business solution/problem. Drives agreement, based on the customer's priorities, requirements/constraints, approach, principles, concepts, and expectations. Ensures team builds and documents a realistically costed, advanced/complex solution approach. Provides thought leadership on oversight and governance sets expectations for quality practices and standards to realize the business solution. Guides creation of clarity around responsibility and accountability for the cybersecurity of the solution. Champions and mentors team members around SFI principles. Promotes a cohesive build methodology so the solution can be transitioned to live operations, leveraging solution expertise. Ensures communication of and adherence to the pre-sales value proposition. Ensures that customer opportunities, questions, and/or issues are brought to the appropriate internal teams. When appropriate, negotiates, collaborates on, reviews, and contributes to deal approval processes. Communicates current view of delivery to customer executives on regular cadence, as needed. When appropriate, oversees a broad portfolio of accounts. Manages and ensures the all-up delivery of consulting engagements, as necessary. Innovates and implements long-term, strategic plans, in partnership with Sales to create new opportunities and sustainable growth for customer accounts across the portfolio, as needed. Ensures delivery team alignment and holds delivery team accountable for delivering on sales strategy. People Management Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Fosters community sharing of stories and leveraging of pre-existing resources by encouraging and empowering team to share learnings and by establishing a cadence (e.g., internal technical brainstorming calls, presenting latest challenges in staff meetings) to calibrate on challenges and trends that impact the team at the corporate level. Holds teams across all organizational levels accountable for sharing insights with virtual team members, including C-level leaders, to inform the direction they take with customers/partners.Initiates and drives external architect community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons). Acts a mentor to less experienced colleagues by educating them on technical and non-technical concepts and sharing best practices. Trusted Advisor Develops a deep network of internal/external relationships with senior-level decision makers at high-impact customers/partners to build influence in addressing problems/blockers and facilitating additional views on the matter of interest. Acts as an advisor to external stakeholders. Master's OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND significant years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security) OR equivalent experience. Proven track record of hands-on contributions to AI-driven transformation initiatives, whether in business process optimization or corporate IT environments. Demonstrated past experience leading large-scale digital transformation programs that leveraged public cloud adoption for application modernization or data platform strategy. Proficient in both English AND French Relevant years proven leadership and orchestration experience Relevant technical sales experience. Project management experience. Experience with managing multiple, complex customer projects or portfolios. Experience leading blended and multidisciplinary teams. People management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, and/or technical architects. * Technical or Professional Certification in Domain (e.g. AI or Azure architecture, PMI)

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