Cloud Pre-Sales Architect

Here at Version 1, we are currently recruiting for a Pre-Sales Cloud Architect to join our thriving Pre-Sales Practice. If you want to be involved in delivering value, innovation, and excellence with our customers, we would love to hear from you.

What You Will Do

• Working with the customer and internal sales teams to understand requirements, objectives and business justification, in order to respond with a viable solution to the requirements
• Maintain knowledge of emerging technology and software trends
• Fully understand the functionality and limitations of multi cloud architectures
• Be capable of architecting solutions and leading the proposal and bidding process including solution strategy, win theme alignment, proposal writing and costing
• Be comfortable in leading workshops and presentations
• Leading competitive dialogue with customers
• Creation of Strategies; Policies, Principals, guard rails and templates

• Have strong background in pre-sales, specifically in complex cloud deals
• Must have experience of large-scale implementation of single and multi-cloud projects (predominantly Azure and AWS)
• Strong technical experience, working across different cloud technology stacks
• Must have held lead roles within migration and/or implementation projects
• Strong understanding of bid processes
• Commercial experience with an understanding of bid finance and creating cost models
• Excellent organization and communication skills with the ability to present across different levels within a customers organisation
• Have good commercial awareness and be able to articulate the commercial impacts of technical challenges and opportunities

We want to build our team with diverse perspectives and experiences. Therefore, if you are good communicator, thrive off collaboration, enjoy obtaining buy-in for your delivery approaches, and are able to manage your own priorities and performance to deliver high quality, highly performant solutions to our customers; then please consider applying

Location: This career is hybrid with an expectation to visit a customer site or a Version 1 office as required. The team are currently doing this once per month. We have offices based in: Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Manchester and Newcastle Upon Tyne.

We are an equal opportunities employer.  Please take time to read more: Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging | Version 1 Careers.

We also offer life assurance, free eye tests and glasses contribution, pension scheme, maternity leave, paternity leave, parental and shared parental leave, unpaid leave, and more. Employees are also eligible for-Profit Share where employees share a portion of company profits every quarter based on their performance and their level in the company.

Version 1 offer incentivised certifications and accreditations including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle and Red Hat. The SRG Platform Team also have ITIL Foundations, Azure Expert MSP, Cisco Certified Design & Network certifications and you’d be encouraged to hone your technical prowess. 

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