Why WWT?
Fueled by creativity and ideation, World Wide Technology strives to accelerate our growth and nurture future innovation. From our world class culture to our generous benefits, to developing innovative technology solutions, WWT constantly works towards its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is a great place to work. We encourage our employees to embrace collaboration, get creative and think outside the box when it comes to delivering some of the most advanced technology solutions for our customers.
At a glance, WWT was founded in 1990 in St. Louis, Missouri. We employ over 9,000 individuals and with $17 Billion in revenue. We have an inclusive culture and believe our core values are the key to company and employee success. WWT is proud to announce that it has been named on the FORTUNE "100 Best Places to Work For®" list for the twelfth consecutive year!
Want to work with highly motivated individuals that come together to form high performance team? Come join WWT today!
What is the Solutions Consulting & Engineering (SC&E) Team and why join?
Solutions Consulting & Engineering is an organization that is Customer Focused and Solutions Led. We deliver end-to-end and emerging solutions to drive customer satisfaction, increase profitability and growth. Our success is enabled by our world-class management consulting, delivery excellence and engineering brilliance. Our goal is to bring together business acumen with full-stack technical expertise to develop innovative solutions for our clients' most complex challenges.
Role Overview:
At WWT, Cloud Solution Architect functions as both consultants and technical leaders. As a consultant, you will meet with the business and IT leaders of our clients, understand their ambitions, and pain points, and develop a vision of how to best solve their problems. As a technical leader, you will actualize the vision by designing engagements involving WWT's service offerings and technical teams. Along the way, you will help to develop WWT's cloud go-to-market strategy, grow cloud understanding across the sales field, and initiate projects to ensure a healthy transition from sales to execution. You will decide which capability is best for a given client, have crucial conversations to align efforts across execution teams, and structure complex deals driving the best outcome for the customer, WWT, and our partners. You will join a small and growing team of CSAs and help define the future direction of the role at WWT. You will have the support of a high performing team of peer architects, and the WWT culture of trust, humility, embracing change, passion, attitude, team player, honesty, and integrity.
Responsibilites:
Lead pre-sales pursuit teams to establish WWT as a trusted cloud technology partner and assist an account team in selling WWT cloud solutions and services. Design solutions for customer problems using cloud technologies across AWS, Azure, and GCPDevelop and evangelize cloud team FinOps service offerings.Build relationships across the organization to deliver cross-functional solutions including participants from Consulting Services, Application Services, Professional Services, etc.Develop, define, and grow the CSA organization and own WWT's vision for the cloud.Continue to learn and grow as the cloud landscape continually changes.Work as part of a core team serving WWT's customers, including Consulting Services, Engagement Managers, Enterprise Architects, Managing Directors, and Account Managers contributing to the analysis, design, and implementation of business performance to ensure positive impact and sustainable results.Deliver strong analytical, quantitative, and conceptual thinking skills and effective interpersonal and communication skills to ensure successful client projects & team performance.Work with the WWT account teams to educate them and help drive business development and sales.Actively pursue business opportunities at large, complex customers; work with clients and internal WWT Teams to develop and negotiate statements of work, including project scope, deliverables, timelines, and costs.Provide guidance and oversite for large delivery engagements to ensure a successful client outcome.Understand customer needs and make recommendations at the BU/Division Head levels.Understand the breadth of what we sell so that we can bring the best of WWT to the customer through introducing and selling cross-business services that help expand WWT's footprint.Achieve revenue and profit growth for the Consulting Services35% Travel
Qualifications
You have a BS degree in Computer Science, a BA degree in Finance or a related field.You have demonstrated knowledge and experience with cloud architecture, cloud engineering, cloud security, cloud automation, cloud finances, and cloud operations.You have successfully directed or played a significant leadership role in a cloud FinOps program.You have demonstrated knowledge and experience working with Cloud Consumption data from one or more of the cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).You have a demonstrated knowledge of native and third-party Cloud Cost Management solutions.You are comfortable engaging with senior technology and business leadership to effectively understand problems and discuss potential solutions.You can quickly structure ambiguous requests and clearly communicate potential solutions.You have successfully led a large-scale cross-functional IT project.You have outstanding verbal and written communication skills and the ability to adjust your message to match the audience's knowledge and expectations.You are a strong leader with a demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.You are a confident professional who can inspire confidence and trust from a client and your team members.You have demonstrated experience developing a technical proposal, a business case, a cost and resource estimates, a project schedule, or technology roadmaps.You have demonstrated knowledge of one or more information technology: Networking, Security, Hosting, Storage, Security, or Software Development.
Required Skills & Knowledge
You have 2+ years of demonstrated success in a FinOps leadership role as a consultant or as part of an enterprise FinOps program.You have 3+ years of demonstrated experience in IT finance.You have 3+ years of demonstrated success working as a cloud consultant designing solutions for one or more major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
Strongly Desired Skills
You have a Master of Business Administration (MBA) or related advanced degree.You hold a FinOps Practitioner or Professional certification.You hold one or more professional level certifications with AWS, Azure or GCPYou have demonstrated experience with the latest cloud technologies such as AI, data analytics, DevOps, cloud operations, serverless, etc.You have a related industry certification or experience (e.g., TOGAF, ITIL, PMI, CISSP, Terraform, VMware, Cisco, etc.)You have DBA or Data Science experience.You have worked in or with a multi-national enterprise.You have led or played a significant role in a large-scale data center migration or cloud adoption program.
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What else do you need to know?
The well-being of WWT employees is essential. So, when it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:
Health and Wellbeing: Heath, Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers, Employee Assistance Program, Wellness programFinancial Benefits: Competitive pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Tuition ReimbursementPaid Time Off PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Sick Leave, Military Leave, BereavementAdditional Perks: Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a commitment at WWT -- it is the foundation of what we do. Through diverse networks and pipelines, we have a clear vision: to create a Great Place to Work for All. We believe inclusion includes U. Be who U are at WWT!
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Locations Include: MO, IL, GA, TX, FL, SC, KY, TN, KS and others will be considered.