Job Description

Senior Pre-Sales Google Cloud Solution Architect What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world. At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative and successful, and this is your chance to be part of the success story: we are looking for Cloud Solution Architect to join our Google Business Group. About Cognizant Google Business Group Digital is no longer some future state. It’s here and now. Adopting a cloud-first platform approach to accelerate your digital journey helps maintain a future-proofed competitive advantage. Cognizant’s Google Business Group (GBG) orchestrates the native capabilities of the Google Cloud in partnership with Cognizant’s deep technology and industry expertise to deliver customer digital outcomes. Cognizant’s GBG helps customers transform and evolve their business with Google’s global capabilities covering app modernisation, infra modernisation, data modernisation, security and world class AI/ML for differentiated business outcomes. As part of an entrepreneurial team of this fast-growing business, we are looking for dynamic, result oriented and experienced technology practitioners to help drive growth and shape the future with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.  You are expected to possess a unique combination of business acumen, communication and strong interpersonal skills along with a technology passion for emerging cloud technologies.  About Role: As a pre-sales Cloud solution architect you will shape the solution and architecture for key projects. You should be very comfortable in articulating technology win themes and value propositions that will position Cognizant favourably with its customers. You'll be engaging with our customers and prospects to provide pre & post sales solution and architectural advice and thought leadership covering either of machine learning, data, analytics, apps and infra competencies. Additionally, you will be assisting the offerings group to build out the next-generation offerings & products based on Google cloud. You will build long-term relationships with Cognizant’s customer CTO’s, partner with peer technical colleagues and with GCP partner technical architects.   Responsibilities: This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced professional in cloud technologies who would like to work as part of a cross-functional team of solution architecture experts in the fields of Infra, Applications, Data, AI/ML, IoT as a subject matter expert in solution/cloud architecture. The role is customer-facing, working closely with business and technical influencers, and will require a background in Information Technology. Successful candidates will bring multiple years’ of experience in driving turnkey proposals for implementing data platforms and analytics as part of cloud data modernization initiatives. - Enable GBG growth through sales wins via technology differentiation and innovation - Design compelling, innovative and competitive client propositions for technology outsourcing with innovative Google cloud technologies - Provide leadership for the transformation of customer requirements into visions, strategies, and roadmaps to implement data platforms, multi-cloud , cloud data warehouse - Outline the pursuit sales and solution strategy to provide direction for solution contributors and subject matter experts (e.g. through developing a solution blueprint and transformation storyboard) - Stay up to date with state of the art technology trends to propose new features and provide value and innovative solutions to our customer - Lead customer meetings, presentations and negotiations during the deal life-cycle - Oversee the design and development of end-to-end technical solutions covering service offerings - Work with other business units to integrate complex multi-tower deals spanning infrastructure, applications, data, analytics, security etc. - Build tight working relationship with offshore pre-sales, delivery and other services teams - Contribute to written RFI and RFP responses and face-to-face customer interactions including solution presentations - Review internal & external cost inputs (including against industry benchmarks) to ensure solution is optimized from financial perspective - Excellent operational hygiene in all pre-sales activities, team motivation, reskilling and quality of deliverables - Collaborate with technology partners to support the reskilling solution teams on the latest market trends. - Be seen as a senior practice leader for GBG unit overall, contribute in offering development, go to market strategy and solutions, operational and sales excellence and thought leadership Must Haves: - Minimum 5 years’ experience in architecting data & analytics solutions using cloud native services - Data/Analytics cloud certifications (on either AWS, Azure or GCP) - Aware of PaaS services relating to Data, Analytics and end-point API interfaces - EMR/Dataproc/Databricks/BigQuery etc. - High-level awareness of other partner technologies, which are alternative to native services like Snowflake, Cloudera, Talend, Informatica, Confluent, etc. - Proven experience in designing turnkey solutions leveraging best of cloud capabilities - The ability to take ownership on an end-to-end solution - Demonstrated, strong analytical and technical capabilities, with an innovative 'edge' - Exceptional communication skills; both written and verbal with great attention to detail - Able to present concepts in an authoritative and clear manner to customers through white-boarding, presentations, and proposals - Ability to develop and maintain relationships with key external stakeholders at various business & technical levels - Experience in technical pre-sales, able to evangelise disruptive proposals - Knowledge and experience with: - Data layers and purpose - Processing run time – ETL vs Spark run time, etc. - Security controls around authentication, authorizations, encryption and certificates - Recommend the migration tools and design data migration strategy - Metadata and data catalogs What we offer: - A competitive salary based on your qualities and experience. - Access to Udemy, Cognizant Academy digital libraries for your continuous learning. - NS business card to cover your commute expenses. - 25 days of paid holiday per year. - A laptop and a smartphone. - A pension scheme. - Organization driven by technology – we have a tremendous technology backbone. - Open, ‘can do’ team spirit and international environment that encourages making your ideas reality! At Cognizant, we believe diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our ability to execute successfully and consistently over the long term. We recognize that our people are our most important asset. We strive to create an environment where all associates feel comfortable to be themselves, feel accepted and can therefore thrive both personally and professionally. We continue to drive D&I throughout our organization to unlock the insights, imagination and innovation of our associates, as well as reflect the diversity of our clients and communities. We are a Dutch and European Top Employer and continually drive employment recognition and engagement through employee friendly policies and affinity groups such as “Women Empowered”, “Embrace LGBTQ+” and “Race Equality Network”. For more information, see https://careers.cognizant.com/global/en/diversity-and-inclusion Recruiter Contact Details Please contact Megha Nagpal (Recruiter Cognizant Consulting) at Megha.nagpal3@cognizant.com or on +31-627155643  for an elaborate explanation of the role.