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Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect

IT Horizons LimitedAbuja, Nigeria
30+ days ago
Job description

Job title : Solutions Architect

Job Location : Abuja Deadline : July 26, 2025 Quick Recommended Links

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Description

  • You will be responsible for scoping, designing, and developing Bill of Materials with pricing for solutions relating to Networks & Collaboration Solution and Intelligent Building Management System.
  • You will architect for other areas of solution as the company deem fit from time to time.
  • Your goal is to win the customer with innovative solutions that solve customers' problems at a price points that gives competitive edge without compromising quality and integrity.
  • You will interface with external vendors, OEM, and sales team in ensuring optimum performance of the solution areas under your portfolio.
  • You will guide the company on technological trends on areas you manage from time to time.
  • You will be responsible for achieving the financial target of the business for the area of solutions you manage.
  • The performance of the solutions will be evaluated from time to time as deemed fit by the organization.
  • You will be part of a team that is responsible for designing and developing scalable solutions that is in line with customer requirement.

    • Responsibilities

  • Speaking with customers via email, phone, physical meetings for initial requirement capture ´ Strong knowledge of Compute, Backup / DR, System and Microsoft Solutions.
  • Knowledge of Network, Wireless, Collaboration, and Security Solutions.
  • Maintain strong relationships with OEMs, in-market field sellers, partner under your area of concentration.
  • Keep up to date with various OEM product announcements and sales incentives and programsunder your area of coverage.
  • Support sales team, prioritizing effort based on maximizing total impact on team productivity and profit, or as directed by Presales Lead or Sales Lead.
  • Proactively scopes the technical solution required to address customer requirements, assesses customers met and unmet needs, and recommends solutions that optimize value for both the customer and the organization.
  • Coordinates closely with internal sales, sales support, and service resources to align solution design with customers' business requirements.
  • Meets assigned targets for profitable sales growth in assigned product lines, market areas, channel, or teams supported.
  • Opportunistically pursues additional business development opportunities within clients.
  • Collaborates with sales to ensure these opportunities are effectively covered and advanced.
  • Maintains high customer satisfaction ratings that meet company standards.
  • Completes required training and development objectives within the assigned time frame.
  • Builds relationships especially on C-level with customers and global partners that result in superior solutions and deeper loyalty and adoption of ITH's solutions.
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance.
  • Establishing the customer environment by designing system configuration, directing system installation, defining, documenting and enforcing system standards.
  • Design and implementation of new solutions and improving resilience of the current environment.
  • Maximizing network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades and collaborating with network architects on network optimization.
  • Updating job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks and participating in professional organizations.
  • Deliver Proof of Concepts (POC).
  • Product presentations and demonstrations.
  • Support with technical qualification of sales opportunities.
  • Collaborates with sales, service, engineering, and technical support resources to ensure proposed deals include technical solutions that accurately address customer needs and are appropriately supported by key customer technical decision-makers.
  • Provide answers to (technical) questions in a Request for Information (RFI) or a Request for Proposal (RFP).
  • Support the team lead in preparing and implementing annual work and resource plans; supporting their applicability within the overall company strategy.

    • Requirements

  • University Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or other related courses or numerate disciplines.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience.
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring, compute system diagnostic and compute system analytics tools.
  • Proven hands-on experience on compute system projects.
  • VCP / MSCE / ITIL / NPP.
  • MSc will be an added Advantage, Virtualization Certificate (VMware / Microsoft / Nu tanix / RedHat), Storage Certificate (DellEMC / IBM / NETAPP), Server Certificate (DellEMC / IBM / HPE), Cloud Certificate (AWS / Azure / Oracle / Google), Backup Solution Certificate (CommVault / Veeam / Q uest / IBM / DellEMC / Sy mantec / Veritas), Network Certificate (Cisco / Fortinet / Brocade), ITIL.
  • Good at organizing and multitasking and prioritize under pressure.
  • Able to explain technical problems in a simple term.
  • Work well with people and Willingness to travel.
  • In depth knowledge of the compute solution (server, storage, virtualization, cloud, backup, disaster recovery, converge / hyperconverge system, Microsoft solutions).
  • Analytical and problem solving ability.
  • Teamwork skills and the ability to feel comfortable working with different teams, clients and groups of staff across an organization.
  • Organizational skills and the ability to prioritize your workload.
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