Dream, Design, Deliver: Elevate your career and make your mark in transformative technology solutions!

The team, position & mission:

Our Solution Architects support sales and act as technical lead in close collaboration with our salespeople, technical resources and with our customers. As a Solution Architect in the Presales department, the role requires technical expertise in the wider areas of infrastructure (Public/Private Cloud, network, storage, backup, security, servers, virtualization solutions, data center and more) and related managed services according to current standards.

As Solution Architect you are responsible for supporting our sales department, product managers and lead architects in each technology unit cross company. Equally important, you will support sales processes with preparation of solution design and describe our deliveries and services in accordance with the needs of each customer.

Being the technical lead on sales cases, you will be responsible for designing and assessing enterprise cloud technology architecture and apply expertise in technical and consulting knowledge in advising clients. In addition, this role assists with customer presentations and proposal development initiatives. Acting as the technical expert, you will share best practices with both clients and among colleagues. 

Your key areas of responsibility as Solution Architect:

·      Act as the bridge between various levels of internal and external stakeholders from engineering to C-level suite in a technical and consultative capacity.

·      Take lead in the intersection of "sales" and "technical" with a highly developed ability to communicate well with new and existing customers, salespeople, project managers and technicians in the landscape for cloud and cloud services.

·      Be methodical, structured and quality conscious while designing solutions and services.

·      Write technical descriptions for proposals and value propositions, both in Norwegian and English language.

·      Be able to explain complicated technical concepts at the knowledge level of others.

·      Keep yourself up to date professionally and be open to learn new things.

·      Proactively detect and resolve challenges before they arise as problems.

As an ideal candidate you:

·      Have 3-5 years’ experience of working in a technical sales environment.

·      Have experience in defining, refining and proposing cloud delivery methodologies.

·      Have proven track record in designing public, private and multi-cloud solution architectures, including cloud native, classic hosting and hybrid models.

·      Have experience working with XaaS solutions and services across AWS/Azure/GCP/VMware.

·      Have capabilities across new-IT and classical technical subjects.

·      Are a technologist who follows emerging solution and service developments.

·      Are familiar with DevOps methodologies, Containerization, Micro-Services and Serverless architectures (Cloud native and DevOps)

·      Have very good communication skills (both written and spoken) in Norwegian/Swedish and English language.

·      Have the ability to build strong working relationships with internal and external customers, with a consultative and diplomatic approach.

·      Are familiar with transition and transformation driven customer initiatives.

What we offer you:

·      Hybrid ways of working with access to our modern & collaborative offices in Oslo

·      We may work with tomorrow’s technology, but at our core we are a people-oriented organization and we are proud to have our Great Place to Work certification

·      An open and inclusive culture, that enables us to reach our full potential

·      A community of experts - as Digital Natives, we put innovation at the heart of our expertise

·      Cool projects, industry leading portfolio enriched with a market a leading partner ecosystem

·      Steep learning curve through participation in various projects and further training measures

·      Read more about the benefits we offer here.

About Orange Business:

Orange Business is a leading network and digital integrator company with offices in 65 countries worldwide, and part of the Orange Group.

Digital Services, a business line of Orange Business is a newly created division within Orange Business. In Europe the business line consists of approximately 1500 people distributed across 9 countries. We are digital natives, with innovation at the core of our business, which makes us a reliable partner close to our customers. Our joint mission is to help innovate, drive and lead them in their digital transformation challenges and business strategies in key digital domains, including Cloud, Customer Experience, Digital Workspace and Data & AI. As an agile and fast-moving digital business partner, the business line offers trusted end-to-end solutions and products that help businesses in a wide range of industries in the private and public sector transform their operations, enhance customer experience, and drive growth.

With our digital expertise, we are a strategic partner of Orange Business objectives to be a leading network and digital integrator with our team as a key growth engine.

The process:

We screen applications on an ongoing basis, with the aim of conducting conversations and interviews as we receive them.

Interested but feel that you don´t match the criteria 100%? We encourage you to apply anyway! We believe in the potential of diverse skill sets, perspectives and individuality. We want to encourage everyone to be their authentic selves and your unique capabilities may align perfectly with our team's needs! Your perfect match might be the next job we are announcing, so why not have a head start and apply now!