[Jobs] [nylug-job] Glotel, Inc. seeks SENIOR LINUX UNIX ARCHITECT

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# JobID: #300
# Submitted On: 2005-06-08 16:25:02

# Company: Glotel, Inc.
# Contact: Martin Duncan,
# Email:  mduncan at glotel.com
# Url: http://www.glotel.com/
# Phone: 212-935-9190
# Fax: 212-223-5124

# Reference No: MD-LINUXARCH-NJ

# Title: SENIOR LINUX UNIX ARCHITECT

# Salary: Negotiable

# Description: Company Description: Data Hosting Company Start Date:
ASAP Job Type: Contract to Hire

# Required Skills:

The Senior Architect is responsible for providing a variety of technical
and non-technical consulting, project management, and advisory services
for clients both inside and outside the company. The senior architect
functions in both a pre-sales and post-sales capacity, with broad
horizontal skill sets and a core competency in technology. Senior
Architects are competent in business areas such as leadership,
management, relationship building, and client interaction.

Position Objectives:
• Demonstrate technical and advisory leadership for customers, sales,
and other consultants and effectively communicates the technical and
business message
• Advance the art and methodologies used internally for the delivery of
customer solutions
• Successfully lead complex customer accounts or company projects,
bridging between the needs of the customer and the company
• Provide training and mentoring to other consultants as they progress
in mastering their professional skills and as they learn company and
industry best practices

Essential duties:
• Work with Business Development Managers and Sales Account Teams to
provide technical and business expertise, inner workings of the
consulting business and delivery of consulting solutions, such that
company service offerings and technical capabilities are maximized on
each customer engagement.
• Proposed solutions exceed customer expectations by creating additional
value and the need for future engagements through implementations that
meet technical requirements, target schedule milestones and budgets.
• Provide local teams with in depth knowledge of company products and
capabilities with an understanding of how they are delivered and provide
mentoring to local consultants.
• Provide technical, project, and relationship management for customer
engagements
• Provide thought leadership and implementation methodologies to all
levels of hosting and network operations, service level delivery, and
the application of operational processes
• At least twice a year, write a white paper and make an
area-of-specialty presentation in front of customers or at industry user
groups

Required skills:
• Have a high degree of competency in one or more technical areas:
security, systems, databases, applications development,
telecommunications, or networking; and a working knowledge in several
other areas
• Minimum of 7 to 10 years relevant professional and senior level
experience, including previous technical management background
• Know how to gather, compile, and analyze data to make practical
recommendations at the tactical or strategic level to executive
management
• Strong sales support skills, recognizing client needs for current and
follow-on opportunities, gains customer respect, and possesses good
relationship building skills
• Exceptional communications capabilities, including leveraging other
people, giving presentations, and speaking publicly
• Initiative and ability to work in a self-directed manner
• Takes accountability for problems or failures, responsible for own
actions, demonstrating strong ethics and integrity, and practices
consistent follow-through

Desired skills:
• Certification(s) in areas of expertise

Education or Equivalent Experience:
• BS/BA and minimum 10 years relevant experience in one discipline with
strong knowledge of at least one other discipline and 2 years technical
management.

Job Family Levels:
Master Architect minimum 12 years relevant experience in one discipline
with strong knowledge of at least two other disciplines, 5 years
technical management, and public presentations.

# Location:

    Weehawken, NJ