Pre-sales Solution Architects.

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Southdowns Office Park, Centurion Conor Solutions (Pty)Ltd
[h=1]Overview[/h]Conor Solutions is a fast growing and dynamic software development company with more 50 staff members consisting mostly of highly experienced and skilled solution architects, software developers, and support engineers.
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We specialize in high performance robust Telco and Mobile Financial Services solutions covering areas such as Telco Core Network applications, Mobile Payments, Location Services, Web Portals, Smartphone applications, Big Data / Analytics, Machine Learning, Value Added Services, Middleware, Mobile Advertising, and other solutions.
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We have a cutting edge internally developed software stack based on technologies such as Redis, NATS, NGINX, Golang, NativeScript, Flutter, Ionic, Angular, MongoDB, MariaDB, Elastic, Java, C/C++, Oracle Fusion, Spring Framework, among others. All our solutions run on Linux.
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Our solutions are deployed at more than 25 customers in 12 countries in Africa and South America.
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We offer a very flexible work environment with the option of working from home. Our offices are in Southdowns, Centurion. All employees are issued with a MacBook Pro.
[h=1]Must have[/h]

• 10+ years experience in the IT, Telco, or Financial Services fields in a senior technical and/or technical pre-sales position.
• Ability to design, document, and communicate complex systems.
• Ability to learn quickly and work independently.
• Establish trusted advisor relationship with decision makers and senior buyers.
• Engage with new and existing customers to collect requirements.
• Prepare sales presentations with service offerings, case studies and proof points.
• Develop ROI and economic models to justify investments in Conor proposed solutions stacks.
• Create solutions leveraging Conor capabilities to address client needs.
• Draw up technical and commercial proposals and pricing models for innovative solutions.
• Assess outputs from Conor delivery teams to assure deliverables satisfy quality standards.
• Collaborate with internal subject matter experts and technical architects to devise client solutions.
• Penetrate and expand accounts through sales and operational strategic account solution plans.
• Involve in quarterly account plan reviews.
• Execute solutions’ presentations, demos and handle scenario sessions with new and existing customers.
• Determine problem domain and record in design solution documents.
• Determine technical risk and issues and suggest mitigation options.
• Coordinate with Sales, Business Development and Account Manager to pursue sales cycles.
• Perform Technical Assessments of new solutions.
• Assist in responding to RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs.
• Drive technical design sessions for new projects.
• Design new solutions, write, and maintain the Functional Specification.
• Attend customer meetings to support the Project Manager from a technical point of view.
• Facilitate and contribute to design and development standards, principles and processes.
• Understand the project requirements fully
• Guide and assist the client’s technical team with technical issues/requirements specific to the project.
• Understanding of Business Ethics.
• Understanding of Business Processes.

[h=1]Nice to have[/h]

• A tertiary Engineering or Computer Science degree.
• Knowledge of and experience with Telecommunications technologies (SS7, SIGTRAN, MTP, SCCP, TCAP, MAP, CAP, etc).
• Knowledge of and experience with Load Balancers, Routers, Firewalls.
• Knowledge of and experience with Big Data / Analytics / Monitoring experience using Elastic, Tableau, Grafana, Prometheus.
• Knowledge of and experience with OpenStack, KVM, Xen, Vmware, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis.
• Software Development experience and knowledge.

[h=1]Qualities[/h]

• Be a good communicator.
• Be organised and structured.
• Ability to delegate and follow up on tasks delegated.
• Have good judgement.
• Detail conscious.
• Ability to Multitasks
• Flexible*
• Assertive, pro-active and initiative.
• Ability to work independently.
• Team Oriented.
• Helicopter view.
• Passionate about work.
• Goal Oriented.

[h=1]SKILLS[/h]

• Technical Writing Skills.
• Communication Skills.
• Research Skills.
• Co-ordinating Skills.
• Service Orientation Skills.
• Interpersonal Skills.
• Presentation Skills
• Facilitation Skills
• Problem Solving Skills.
• Negotiation Skills.
• Decision making Skills.
• Software Development Skills.
• System Architecture.

Please send you CV's to [email protected].