Solution Architect

Vision Valley

UAE

Ref: RP757-03

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Roles and Responsibilities:
• The IoT Solution Architect will lead the overall technical direction of our customer engagement IoT solutions. In addition, the Solution Architect will establish architecture policies and standards that are needed to create a seamless customer.
• In addition to deploy solution architectures, conduct analysis of alternative solutions and infrastructure elements, create architectural standards, define models and methodologies and promote a clear and consistent business vision through various industry leading IoT solutions.

Key responsibilities as below:
• Lead Architecture assessment and design for IoT domains that provide core capabilities for the enterprise
• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise data model and metadata structures for low to medium complex projects
• Evaluate complex project requests in terms feasibility, complexity
• Working with business development team to understand market trend, industry need, customer pain and influence customer
• Building relationships with key account executives, understanding customer business problems, helping them solve their problems and build business capabilities
• Engaging technical decision makers, industry influencers, policy makers, and business leaders of existing and potential customers to drive awareness and early adoption of new Intel technologies, platforms and products
• Evaluate various infrastructure requirements and options for cloud based IoT platforms
• Provides pre-sales technical direction, RFx responses, estimations
• Responsible for solution design: Collaborate with internal and external customers by providing customer use case analysis, business model analysis, engineering and design of technical solutions, technical presentations, and technical consultation to internal and external customers

Requirements

• Has at least 12+ years of experience in IT
• 3 years+ of working experience at/with System Integrators and end customers, playing specific roles, such as system architect, system analyst, system designer, and programmer (C and Java are preferred)
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Require knowledge of embedded Linux, device driver, WSN, protocol stack , system software, Java
• Understanding of IoT with ability to explain different use cases and their benefits
• Strong and demonstrable understanding of network, security and cloud platform solutions and architecture design
• Understanding of a variety of hardware platforms including servers, distributed systems, mobile, & embedded devices
• Proven experience developing and delivering effective technical presentations
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills with experience in writing PRD (Product Requirement Document)
• Understanding of a variety of popular technologies in the space of IOT, including , Spring, MQTT, CoAP, time series database, KAFKA, AKKA, Hadoop, and the sensor area network communication protocols, such as 6LowPAN, BLE, ZigBee, ModBus, BacNET
• Direct field experience in working with end customers
• Able to setup and demonstrate system solution
• Basic knowledge of industrial technologies and protocols
• Basic software development skills in Java, spring framework, JavaScript/Node.js, C and automation scripting languages (python, perl, shell, etc.)
• Experience engineering, analyzing, and troubleshooting hardware and software problems on IA platforms in a Windows or Linux environment
• Industrial related field-bus and system knowledge
• Have very strong customer facing skills with the ability to communicate with C-level management
• Able to communicate technically to technical people and translate technical jargon into laymen terms for non-technical people
• Experience on Hardware and Software Environments, as well as heterogeneous systems environments
• Ability to work with a variety of different technical teams as well as third parties
• You are self-sufficient with a high degree of autonomy and a passion for working in start-up environment
• A team player with the ability to work in complex cross-functional teams
• Understanding of modern approaches to project management\
• Open to travel 20% to 30% as needed

About the Company

Founded in 2002 as a systems integration company, Vision Valley has since diversified and expanded to become a leader in solutions and services for the Middle East and North Africa telecommunications, networking and information technology industries, Our areas of expertise lie in next-generation technologies such as mobile applications, unified communications, networking and wireless connectivity.

Our services include site surveys, installation, commissioning, integration and maintenance for major mobile operators as well as consultancy services that support mobile technology solutions and we support and provide services from major vendors' networking systems, enterprise applications, advanced broadband wireless and video conferencing technologies.

Additionally we offer network analysis, network management, advanced systems integration, connectivity solutions, project management and specialist services to the entire region with strategically located teams of IT professionals in our headquarters in Dubai, UAE and branch offices in cities across the MENA region.

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Solution Architect salaries in UAE

Average monthly compensation
AED 24,500

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