Solution Architect I

HCLTech · United States

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Job Summary

  • This role will involve the RFP/RFI process as well as bespoke solutions in collaboration with Product teams/vendors, ensuring accurate verification, technical design vetting and overall cost and quality for the correct design and implementation.
  • Coordination and oversight of Third-Party Providers for solution components. Work with them to create and freeze the Bill of material.
  • Assess and understand the client’s business requirements, translating and recording these into formal network solution requirements.
  • Responsible for the development of a convincing solution strategy regarding current, intermediate, and future mode of operations including migration approach
  • Design and develop an end-to-end network solution design to meet the agreed network solution requirements while taking into consideration the economic parameters and competition.
  • Participate in due diligence meetings with customer to gather more information on proposal/information request and environment.
  • Successfully defend proposed techno-commercial solutions as part of the pre-sales process.
  • Prepare
  • Proposal documents including proposals, pricing sheet, solution presentations against RFP’s/RFI’s
  • Contractual documents such as Statement of Work, Resource Unit Definitions etc.
  • Understanding new data technologies/products and position them in relevant solution proposal.
  • Keep himself/herself up to date with latest products features, licensing, architecture, and price.
  • Defend end-to-end data solutions to customer/internal stakeholders.
  • Working closely alongside other technology owners for optimal solution design in-line with the overall proposed solution.
  • Work with OEM / Partners to ensure an appropriate solution is proposed during Presales Cycle

Key Responsibilities

  • Data Center LAN technologies and platforms
        • Data center design and solution
        • Data Center LAN sizing and architecture
        • Cisco ACI SDN architecture
  • Wide Area Network technologies
  • WAN connectivity architecture and solution
  • SD-WAN Solutions from cloud providers such as  Viptela, Velo ,Silverpeak , Fortinet, Pala Alto etc.
  • Datacenter Networking – SDN/ACI
  • Campus LAN and SDA
  • TCP/IP protocol suite
  • Application protocols - HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, SNMP, SSL etc.
  • Wireless Networking on platforms like Meraki, Cisco, Aruba
  • Routing Protocols OSPF, EIGRP, BGP
  • SwitchingL2 and L3 LAN switching technologies, VLANs, IEEE802.1Q Trunking, EtherChannel etc.
  • DHCP and DNS
  • Technical experience with designing, installing, configuring, and supporting security infrastructure technologies, network monitoring and management tools.

Skill Requirements

Knowledge of DC-LAN (Tiered designs, Leaf/Spine, VXLAN, DCI, SDN-ACI/NSX), WAN (SDWAN- Viptela/VeloCloud /Versa/Aruba), Campus LAN, Wireless, WLAN, Routing Protocols-BGP/OSPF, Switching /Tunneling communication (i.e., IPsec/VXLAN/GRE), Load Balancer -F5, Network Knowledge of Automation with Ansible/Python/Terraform, Microsoft Excel, Power Point, BOM/BOQ creation etc

Other Requirements

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