Ps Delivery Consulting Architect - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - VMware

Description

PS Consulting Architect - UAE**
The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?
The most advanced companies in the world turn to VMware to manage, grow, and transform their business.

When you work here, you're connected to a global community of innovative, empowered employees working together to solve the most critical technology challenges.

Our team of 30,000+ people working in 50+ locations worldwide is committed to creating an environment where great people want to work long term by living our values of passion, innovation, execution, teamwork, active learning and giving back.

The global VMware Professional Services Organization (PSO) influences the success of each VMware implementation. The PSO team is dedicated to the success of the customer and their digital strategy.

The PSO team ensures that VMware customers are successfully implementing their business plans from adoption all the way to a fully functioning solution.

As a Consulting Architect, you have the opportunity to demonstrate your technical abilities to drive and develop solutions that assist customers in achieving their business goals and outcomes.

If you are ready to accelerate, innovate and lead, join us as we challenge constraints and problem solve for tomorrow today.

Success in the Role:
What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

• As a Consulting Architect, you hold responsibility for gathering and vetting customer requirements to create an architectural design consisting of virtual infrastructure, configuration recommendations and planning, and identification of deployment validation processes and procedures.
• You will acquire intimate knowledge of the customers' business and its strategic goals and use your indepth knowledge of VMware Virtual Infrastructure Deployment, Management & Administration to work with sales, presales, and customers on building successful delivery roadmaps.
• You will be demonstrating the technical abilities of the consulting team you lead, and drive a solution that assists the customer in achieving their business goals and outcomes.
• In addition to customer facing delivery, you will also provide key input to presales on specific discipline bids and drive best practices.
• Within the first 30 days of employment, you will go through a great onboarding experience from VMware and be given the tools you will need to get yourself geared up for the role. This will also be the time that you will be given your first project to engage in and start your customercentric journey.
• Within 45 days of employment, you will be able to ensure the solution being delivered is fit for purpose through referencing the initial business goals and objectives, demonstrating commercial and scope awareness, and understanding the wider technical landscape and how it relates to/integrates with customer environments
• Within 90 days of employment, you will be expected to take full ownership of business outcomes, lead technical project teams and take accountability for all project deliverables further developing your documentation, technical writing, interpersonal and leadership skills

What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

• Articulate solution design, integrating both technical and business concepts, and present a transformational journey to project stakeholders.
• Work with Project Managers to create project plans with realistic work stream timelines.
• Manage technical governance for the endtoend solutions
• Gather use case requirements and create high and lowlevel enterprise designs while functioning as a resource for "Best Practices" and driving adoption of VMware solutions.
• Maintain current, highlevel technical knowledge of the entire VMware product line and future product direction and expert level knowledge of the core VMware product line and your specialist area
• Ensure the solution being delivered is fit for purpose, referencing the initial business goals and objectives of the project through strong project governance
• Actively demonstrate commercial awareness and stay within the scope of the contracted work.
• Use your VCP (VMware Certified Professional) and your IT architecture certifications to deliver IT automation and crosscloud solutions.
• Assist in the development of our consulting service offerings as well as developing white papers and best practices
• Must enjoy working with leading edge technology and being an intrinsic part of a fantastic team
• Speaking and writing and English fluently with Arabic as an added advantage

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?
The hiring manager is Andrew Siaotong, Senior Manager PS Delivery METNA. He currently leads a team of Staff/Consulting Architects distributed across the METNA region. Andrew has over 20+ years of Information Technolo