Presales Solutions Architect - Applications

What success looks like in this role:

We are seeking a highly experienced Presales Solutions Architect - Application Managed Services (AMS) to lead solution design, customer engagements, technical proposals, and commercial modeling for enterprise application support, modernization, and managed services opportunities. This role will serve as a trusted advisor to customers, helping them optimize, modernize, manage, and transform their application landscape while aligning technology investments to business outcomes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Solution Architecture & Design

• Lead discovery workshops, application assessments, and requirements gathering sessions with business and IT stakeholders.
• Analyze current-state application portfolios, support models, operational challenges, technical debt, and transformation opportunities.
• Develop target-state architectures, service delivery models, governance frameworks, transition plans, and operational playbooks.
• Present technical and business solutions to executive leadership, business stakeholders, and technical teams.
• Translate technical capabilities into measurable business outcomes such as cost reduction, improved SLA performance, accelerated release cycles, enhanced user experience, and reduced operational risk.

Cost Modeling & Financial Analysis

• Develop comprehensive pricing models, effort estimations, TCO assessments, and ROI analyses for AMS engagements.
• Build bottom-up estimates for support, enhancement, modernization, cloud transformation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Conduct profitability, margin, and resource utilization analysis.
• Create financial scenarios that demonstrate business value and savings opportunities.
• Collaborate with finance and delivery teams to validate cost assumptions and ensure commercially viable solutions.

Technical Proposal Development

• Lead technical responses for RFPs, RFIs, RFQs, and strategic pursuits.
• Develop executive summaries, solution narratives, service architectures, operating models, transition frameworks, and implementation roadmaps.
• Create application support and delivery governance models, SLA frameworks, KPI scorecards, and reporting structures.
• Partner with delivery, engineering, security, cloud, and consulting teams to ensure solution feasibility and alignment.
• Utilize Gen AI tools (Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate proposal development, requirement synthesis, content creation, and solution documentation.
• Develop persuasive value propositions that differentiate offerings and improve win probability.

Application Modernization & Transformation Consulting

• Assess application portfolios and identify opportunities for modernization, rationalization, re-platforming, re-engineering, and cloud migration.
• Recommend transformation strategies using modern architectures, microservices, APIs, cloud-native technologies, DevSecOps, and automation frameworks.
• Develop application lifecycle management strategies aligned with customer business goals.
• Define modernization roadmaps balancing business priorities, risk, cost, and time-to-value.

Delivery Partnership & Transition Planning

• Collaborate with delivery organizations to ensure proposed solutions are executable and scalable.
• Develop transition and knowledge transfer plans for new AMS engagements.
• Support customer solution reviews, governance meetings, and deal transition workshops.
• Participate in solution kickoffs to ensure alignment between sales commitments and delivery execution.
• Continuously refine solution frameworks based on delivery feedback and customer outcomes.

Practice Development & Thought Leadership

• Contribute to AMS solution accelerators, reusable assets, proposal templates, and service offerings.
• Support market intelligence, competitive analysis, and industry-specific solution development.
• Mentor junior solution architects and presales consultants.
• Stay current with emerging trends in AI-powered operations, Application Modernization, Cloud-Native Engineering, DevSecOps, and Digital Transformation.

Business & Soft Skills

• Strong executive presence with ability to engage CXO stakeholders.
• Excellent presentation, storytelling, and workshop facilitation skills.
• Strong consultative selling and customer advisory capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple strategic pursuits simultaneously.
• Exceptional collaboration across sales, delivery, consulting, finance, and leadership teams.
• Strong commercial acumen with understanding of pricing, margins, profitability, and risk management.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value narratives.

Certifications & Nice-to-Haves

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert / AWS Solutions Architect Professional
• AI/ML certifications (Azure AI Engineer, AWS ML Specialty, etc.)
• Experience in AI governance, Responsible AI frameworks
• ITIL / Service management frameworks
• Exposure to GTM strategy, pricing models, or business development
• Prior experience in system integrators, consulting firms, or global delivery models

You will be successful in this role if you have:

BA/BS degree and 8+ years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience
Master’s degree preferred.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience

• 10-15 years of overall IT experience.
• Minimum 5+ years in Presales, Solution Architecture, Consulting, or Managed Services.
• Experience designing and positioning large-scale AMS engagements.
• Proven success supporting enterprise pursuits, strategic deals, and RFP responses.
• Strong track record of influencing deal wins through solution consulting and architecture leadership.
• Experience managing multi-tower engagements across application development, support, modernization, cloud, and operations.

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