• Position type: Contract
• Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 
• Experience: 5+ years of relevant IT architect experience

​Are you a pre-sales IT System Architect? We are looking for a customer/stakeholder facing professional who can support a project team to provide solution architecture and design skills where required. The end-customer is a multinational bank.

Role breakdown

• Proactively participate in CTO meetings.

• Design innovative technical solutions to meet customer needs

• Use iterative techniques to assure that solutions meet customer requirements, are technically sound and in line with larger strategy of the account

• Identify and assemble all potential cost to ensure optimal P&L on projects

• Increase sales within the account

• Create technical proposals and blueprints to clearly describe solutions offered

• Handover of won deals into project rollout

• Followup of projects to ensure the end product meets requirements

​Knowledge requirements (at least 6 areas):

• Windows 7 & 10

• Windows Server 2016 & 2019

• Microsoft SQL 2016 and above

• Microsoft System Centre 2016 and above

• Microsoft Exchange 2019

• Microsoft Sharepoint 2013

• VMWare vSphere

• Citrix XenApp

• XenDesktop

• Netscaler

• AppSense

• Veeam

• NetApp Storage technologies

• Datacentre Network and Firewall

​Other mandatory skills and experience:

• Strong customer facing skills

• Strong written and verbal communication

• Working in an environment where security and compliance are of paramount importance

• Analytical thinking

• Problem Solving

• New contracts/bids

• Experience of working in a Global organisation with offshore delivery

​Languages

• Fluent English
• Dutch is desirable