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As a Senior Principal Software Solutions Architect at NTT DATA, you'll leverage your extensive expertise to create integrated infrastructure software solutions. Collaborating with architectural consulting teams, you'll lead in architecting client-specific solutions that not only meet but exceed their expectations. You will outline complex infrastructure software solutions across various domains, ensuring seamless functionality and integration.
Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Hybrid Cloud Architect with a minimum of 15 years of experience to lead the design, transformation, and operationalization of enterprise-scale hybrid cloud environments. The ideal candidate must be hands-on across both on-premise infrastructure and public cloud, with deep understanding of managed services, Day-2 operations, commercial governance, and client-facing solution leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end architecture for hybrid cloud environments spanning on-premise data centers, private cloud, and public cloud platforms.
Create high-level and low-level designs, reference architectures, migration roadmaps, operational runbooks, and transition plans.
Act as a hands-on architect for infrastructure, cloud landing zones, network connectivity, security controls, identity, backup, monitoring, and automation.
Assess current-state IT landscapes and define target-state hybrid cloud solutions aligned to business, technical, security, compliance, and cost objectives.
Drive cloud migration and modernization planning, including workload assessment, dependency mapping, migration waves, and risk mitigation.
Design and integrate managed services operating models, including ITIL-aligned processes, monitoring, incident/problem/change management, capacity management, patching, backup, DR, and service reporting.
Support Day-2 operations readiness by ensuring solutions are supportable, observable, resilient, cost-managed, and aligned to SLAs/OLAs.
Engage directly with client stakeholders, including CIO/CTO teams, enterprise architects, infrastructure leads, security teams, procurement, and business owners.
Contribute to proposals, solution costing, effort estimation, commercial models, RFP/RFI responses, statements of work, and governance reviews.
Collaborate with delivery, operations, security, application, network, and commercial teams to ensure successful solution implementation and handover.
Provide technical leadership, mentoring, design governance, and architecture review support across multiple projects or client engagements.
Required Experience & Skills
Minimum 15 years of overall IT experience, with significant experience in infrastructure architecture, cloud architecture, and enterprise solution design.
Strong hands-on expertise in on-premise platforms, including compute, storage, virtualization, networking, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and data center operations.
Proven experience designing hybrid cloud solutions using one or more public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
Strong understanding of private cloud, virtualization, container platforms, automation, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native operating models.
Deep knowledge of managed services operations and Day-2 support models, including service transition, operations governance, SLA management, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.
Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and commercially viable architecture solutions.
Experience with cloud connectivity patterns such as VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, SD-WAN, routing, DNS, firewalling, and hybrid identity integration.
Strong understanding of security architecture, IAM, zero trust principles, encryption, vulnerability management, compliance controls, and operational risk.
Commercial awareness with ability to support solution pricing, cost optimization, financial governance, service scope definition, and risk/commercial trade-off discussions.
Excellent client-facing communication skills, with ability to present complex architecture topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong team player with proven ability to work across pre-sales, delivery, operations, and customer teams.
Preferred Certifications
Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, or Google Professional Cloud Architect.
TOGAF, ITIL Foundation / Managing Professional, VMware, Kubernetes, security, or networking certifications are desirable.
Key Competencies
Hybrid cloud architecture and modernization strategy
Managed services and Day-2 operations design
Client advisory and stakeholder management
Commercial solutioning, estimation, and cost optimization
Governance, risk management, and operational resilience
Collaboration, mentoring, and cross-functional leadership
Success Measures
High-quality, secure, supportable, and commercially sound hybrid cloud architectures.
Smooth transition from solution design to implementation and managed services operations.
Strong client confidence through clear communication, technical credibility, and delivery ownership.
Reduced operational risk through robust Day-2 processes, monitoring, automation, and governance.
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