Team Lead - Consulting Architecture

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Rackspace are the multicloud solutions experts. Consistently named a 'best place to work' year-after-year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. As a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud MSPs, our Fanatical Experience™ is renowned by customers throughout the industry!


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.

 

As a Team Lead, you will own key relationships with major customers in the DACH region, and work with 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 well-suited to a highly-accomplished Cloud Architect, who is looking to embark on the next major growth phase of their career.


We are happy for this person to be based from their home office (anywhere in Germany).

Primary objectives:

  • Lead discussions with customers on re-thinking and re-designing IT landscapes using cloud-native technologies
  • Manage the design and delivery of innovative Proof of Concepts for customers
  • Provide guidance and though-leadership to customers on their cloud journeys and establish a long-term trusted advisor role
  • Evangelize the cloud-native paradigm through the delivery of blogs, customer presentations and public speaking engagements
  • Establish best-practices for the consultancy resulting in standardized engagement models and repeatable ways-of-working
  • Mentor and train junior architects within the wider Rackspace community on modern cloud-native software patterns

Job Requirements

  • 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 platforms on Amazon Webservices, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform is essential. Demonstrable experience in designing and implementing cloud-native systems and/or rebuilding an existing system on the cloud is required.
  • 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.

Key Accountabilities

  • 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
  • Contribute to the cloud architect community within Rackspace and beyond by speaking at internal and external events
  • Actively identify opportunities for new engagements
  • Contribute to RFI/RFP requests

Person Specification

  • You have built specialist and demonstrable knowledge in Cloud Platform Architecture or Cloud-native Application Architecture
  • Must have client-facing consultancy experience within large enterprises, but happy to deliver to SMBs
  • 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 organizations who are moving their applications to the cloud
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills are required.
  • Experience working within frameworks such as TOGAF and COBIT. In-depth knowledge of the frameworks and best practices of the major cloud players, such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework
  • Certified as a professional architect on at least one of the major public cloud platforms (Aws, Azure, GCP) and/or as an enterprise architect
  • Excellent English language skills

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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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Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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Rackspace Technology operates in the Cloud industry. The company is located in San Antonio, TX and San Antonio, TX. Rackspace Technology was founded in 1998. It has 7509 total employees. It offers perks and benefits such as Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Disability insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Health insurance and Life insurance. To see all 77 open jobs at Rackspace Technology, click here.
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