Sr. Enterprise Solution Architect

About Us (Ensono)

Ensono is an expert technology adviser and managed service provider. As a relentless ally, we accelerate clients’ digital transformation to achieve business outcomes that stand to last. Our dedicated team helps organizations optimize today’s systems across any hybrid environment with services such as consulting, mainframe and application modernization, public cloud migration and cloud-native development. With certified experts in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud and recognized as Microsoft Datacenter Transformation Partner of the Year, Ensono has over 3500+ associates globally and is headquartered in greater Chicago.

We care about your success, offering comprehensive strategic and managed services for mission-critical applications. Our Advisory and Consulting services can help upfront with an application strategy or find the right places for your applications – whether it’s public, multi or hybrid cloud, or mainframe. And because we span across all mission-critical platforms, we can meet you wherever you are in your digital transformation journey, with 24/7 support when you need it. We are your relentless ally, flexing with you when challenges emerge so you don’t feel stuck in place. With cross-platform certifications and decades of experience, our technology experts have become an extension of your team so you’re continuously innovating – doing more with less while remaining secure. And that’s just the beginning

 

About Role

 

Ensono’s Solution Architects are seasoned technologists focused on pushing forward technical innovation and transformation within the solution sets we provide. They work closely with our clients to understand their business drivers and corporate objectives. Through collaboration with internal technologists, SAs create solutions that drive value for our clients. They also provide client and industry feedback to Ensono’s internal teams, which allows us to adjust our product and technology roadmaps. 

 

The Enterprise Solution Architect (ESA) team works alongside and supports the Sales, Consulting and Service Management organizations to service Strategic Enterprise Clients. They work with the clients’ business and technical teams to create reference architecture frameworks and templates. They lead the effort to execute multi-year transformation initiatives in the clients’ environments. ESAs also help the account teams identify, pursue and close strategic business development opportunities while driving add-on business within existing accounts. As part of this, ESAs must be effective in fostering executive level relationships with an emphasis on client satisfaction. Throughout the engagement process, from discovery to solution implementation, an ESA must work with and often lead multi-disciplinary teams. Ultimately, he/she remains of the owner of the technical design of a client’s environment.

 

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with their counterparts in the Sales and Consulting organizations to create Pursuit, Solution, and Sales strategies for existing Enterprise clients
• Conduct discovery and assessment workshops (often in collaboration with resources from consulting, operations and product teams) to help drive further penetration of the client account
• Develop and document solutions that meet client’s (technical and business) requirements and allow them to adapt to changing industry needs with a focus on transformation and re-platform efforts
• Conduct solution development sessions and present technical solutions and business cases to a wide variety of audience
• Gain executive buy in for complex solutions by engaging in executive and senior-level technology discussions
• Gain clients’ confidence as a trusted advisor by offering consultation and recommendations drawn from insights, technology know-how and past experiences
• Service with ongoing requests from solution design perspective
• Align and partner with Product Management to help drive appropriate product enhancements and changes to technology roadmap
• Aid in driving stability and innovation within the client’s current and future state and create solutions based on client requirements and available product offerings

 

Experience Level: 10+ yrs

 

Technical Key Skills (Mandatory Skills)

• Experienced communicator at all levels of our client environments from C-level to engineering
• Well versed in the hosting technology landscape with 10+ years of overall experience
• Previous experience as an SA (Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect) with a hosting service provider preferred
• Experienced with large Cloud, IaaS and Datacenter outsourcing solutions
• Ability to help create multi-tower outsourcing roadmaps
• Comfortable with executive level positioning of complex solutions that span multiple disciplines (hosting, network, security, storage and backup, DR, etc.)

Good to have skills

• Preferably has experience with (and certified on) hyper-scale cloud platforms (AWS and Azure)