Consulting Energy Architect

Job Description:

Consulting – Industry Practice – Solution Architect & Leader

DXC Technology is focused on supporting customers in business transformations enabled by innovative technologies, digital solutions and high added value services (Industry & Process Advisory, Technology Consulting, Data & Analytics, Applications, Cloud & Security Services and IT Outsourcing).

To help clients achieve their business challenges, the Industry practice, focusing on energy & technology, supply chain and public transport, implements complex solutions, specific to these sectors, in an end-to-end way, based on the most modern technologies and architectures with Agile project teams.  

To support our growth ambition, we are looking for a Functional/Technical Solution Architect and Business Leader with high drive to strengthen the team.

Your Role:

• From an in-depth understanding of a market functioning and future evolutions in a specific market (energy, supply chain, public transport, …), be able to develop a target reference architecture and to develop potential transition roadmaps
• Based on a strong technical background and considering market challenges identified, screen the market for interesting solutions, both in the classical world as in the innovation world, to solve business challenges
• Collaborate with solution and technology partners to define and implement the best solution taking the criteria and requirements from the customer into account.
• Assess client IT landscapes, spot the weak points and develop modernization strategies and roadmaps.
• Deliver IT architectures and integration architectures at the different stages of the execution of a roadmap to support our customers in their digital transformation journey
• Interact with the business – understand the strategy and how IT can enable this strategy.
• Present ideas, architectures, solutions, roadmap in a convincing way to the team and to customers and interact through workshops in a consultative selling way
• Strong collaboration skills with team members
• Assist the technical team with the implantation of the designed solutions & act as coach and mentor to team members
• Inspire proposal teams, lead the solutioning, and write commercial proposals.
• Actively participate to an innovation eco-system based in Belgium to screen and collaborate with startups against a specific given scope.

Your Key Responsibilities:
 

• Act as a trusted advisor towards our clients, develop their interest in DXC services.
• Keep your knowledge up to date through technology watch opportunities.
• Be instrumental in expanding our business in different functional domains.
• Provide cross-functional technical leadership across all solution components.
• Deliver consulting missions with passion, to client satisfaction.
• Lead the technical teams in the implementation of the designed solutions.
• Collaborate with partners on customer opportunities.
• Ultimate responsibility for the quality and pertinence of proposals.

Qualifications:
 

• Experience of 5 years in IT architecture in more than one domain: enterprise, solution, applications, cloud, infrastructure, security, …
• TOGAF certification level 1 & 2
• Sufficient depth and breadth of technical knowledge to design and scope multiple deliverables across several technologies.
• Strong technical project leadership capabilities and be able to deal with complex issues.
• Ability to interact with customers regarding business and technical information.
• Strong estimating skills.  Ability to provide input for Pricing. 
• Demonstrate strong team building skills - ability to work as a team.
• Understanding of frameworks such as ITSM/ITIL, COBIT, IT4IT, … is a plus
• Share relevant or useful information in a timely manner
• Demonstrate strong initiative to learn with minimal direction
• You have excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills, in Dutch or French and English.  You can write proposals in these languages.

What you’ll get:

At DXC Technology, we take care of your personal development track, at your speed. You will learn to become a trusted advisor for our clients’ leadership, helping them to transform their business platform(s) and/or operating models while taking full advantage of the disruptive potential of the latest technologies (IoT, robotics, analytics, cloud, blockchain, drones, VR/AR …).

• Working with large clients, leaders in their industry, across different industries.
• Varied projects in which you can take own initiatives and gain a lot of experience.
• Develop your expertise by learning from DXC colleagues, DXC university, DXC methodology, in combination with external trainings.
• Various opportunities for professional development - both horizontally and vertically through various career paths in national and international environment.
• Become part of a consulting team with solid solutions and an international network of expertise.
• Opportunities to grow within a small team with lots of learning opportunities.
• A motivating salary package, including fringe benefits and flexible working hours, and possibilities to work from home.
• Attention to your personal work-life balance.
• DXC Technology is committed to equal opportunities and diversity. Our recruitment process prohibits all forms of discrimination (origin, age, gender, health...).

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