Senior Consulting Cloud Architect

Rackspace Technology is a leading provider of expertise and managed services across all the major public and private cloud technologies. We’ve evolved Fanatical Support to encompass the entire customer journey — providing Fanatical Experience™ from first consultation to daily operations. Our passionate experts combine the power of proactive, always-on service and expertise with best-in-class tools and automation to deliver technology when and how our customers need it.

The Rackspace Consulting Architecture team provides guidance, advice and best-practice to customers in their digital transformations. We develop future-proof technical solutions for complex business problems. We architect for innovation.

You will be engaging with customers and the wider Rackspace organization to advise, develop and deliver innovative solutions leveraging a wide range of public cloud services. The primary focus will be on helping customers to re-think their technical platforms and application landscapes and drive adoption of cloud-native technologies and innovation.

This role is aligned to our largest German enterprise customer; as a 'Lead Architect' (Senior Consulting Cloud Architect) you will be instrumental in supporting account growth as well as technical project delivery, leading multi-functional teams while defining the long-term strategy.

German language skills (C1/C2 or native) are essential.

Primary Objectives

• Work with customers and the wider Rackspace organizations on re-thinking and re-designing IT landscapes using cloud-native technologies
• Design and deliver innovative Proof of Concepts for customers
• Provide guidance to customers on their cloud journeys and establish a long-term trusted advisor role
• Deliver high-quality work to customers as part of consulting engagements that can be delivered through workshops, presentations or architecture designs
• Drive the engagements with customers from the architectural pillar, from design to delivery
• Work in close collaboration with other architects, technical consultants and professional services teams within Rackspace and customer’s teams
• Mentor and train junior architects within the wider Rackspace Architecture community on modern cloud-native software patterns
• Help identify, nurture and onboard (internal/external) talent to build out high-performing Technical Delivery teams, supporting ongoing practice growth.
• Contribute to Presales efforts, RFI/RFP's, etc, and nurture account development opportunities.

Person Specification

• The ideal candidate has a proven track record in designing and delivering innovative technology solutions built on the cloud.
• As a senior architect, the person should be comfortable engaging at all levels of the customer’s business, from working with senior/C-level leadership to guiding IT specialists and developers on building solutions.
• Extensive experience of creating Public Cloud platforms (AWS preferred, due to current demand).
• Demonstrable experience in designing and implementing cloud-native systems and/or rebuilding an existing system on the cloud is required.
• Must have the ability to lead architectural engagements, either directly or as part of a larger programme of work and take ownership for the successful delivery of customer value within budget, time and scope.
• Acting as a thought-leader, the right candidate is able to concisely and articulately present to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You have specialist and demonstrable knowledge in Cloud Platform Architecture or Cloud-native Application Architecture
• You have an articulate opinion on the advantages of using public cloud platforms from a business perspective
• You can identify and plan to resolve the challenges, both technical and organizational, facing Enterprise and SMB organizations who are moving their applications to the cloud
• Expert level Project Management experience and exposure.
• Certified as a professional architect on at least one of the major public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and/or as an enterprise architect

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About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

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