Lead Architect - Pre-sales (m/f/d)
Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia10 hours ago
Remote, EMEAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Act as the lead technical advisor and solution architect for pre-sales activities and customer pursuits.
- Conduct customer workshops in German and English to analyze business, operational, and technical requirements.
- Translate customer requirements into end-to-end solution architectures, service designs, migration concepts, and transformation roadmaps.
- Prepare and defend RFP, RFI, RFQ, bid, proposal, and customer presentation materials.
- Collaborate with sales and account teams to qualify opportunities and support deal closure.
- Prepare effort estimates, service costing, resource plans, and technical risk assessments.
- Lead international virtual teams of internal resources, suppliers, and vendors of up to 15 people.
- Manage the design, planning, and implementation of contractually agreed services and solution outcomes.
- Serve as the senior escalation point, reviewer, and approver for solution architecture decisions and technical risks.
- Lead architecture reviews, technical workshops, solution governance meetings, and transition to operational delivery teams.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Information Technology or a related field.
- At least 6 years of professional experience in Information Technology.
- Relevant field-specific professional certification and a recognized process or methodology certification.
- Expert-level knowledge of operating systems, networking technologies, and relevant domain-specific applications.
- Advanced knowledge of IT security principles and technologies, programming languages, and virtualization technologies.
- Experience with enterprise architectural frameworks, service-oriented architecture, architecture roadmaps, complex technical documentation, and IT processes aligned with industry standards.
- Experience training, mentoring, and coaching others, as well as experience in project management and quality management processes.
- Leadership capabilities, financial literacy, business awareness, and strong communication, analytical, presentation, negotiation, and collaboration skills.
- Advanced English proficiency at C1 level; German language skills are advantageous.
- Broad and deep knowledge of current technologies and products, preferably supported by professional-level certification exams from multiple vendors.
Benefits
- More than 25 benefits covering financial support, learning and development, health and sport, family and work-life balance, and other employee benefits.
- Remote work is available only within Slovakia due to European taxation regulations.
- Base salary is negotiable based on seniority and previous experience, with variable compensation and other financial benefits in addition to base salary.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia
Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia provides IT outsourcing and managed services to corporate clients, with specialties in cloud, applications, SAP, network, and service management. Operating as part of Deutsche Telekom Group, it serves customers primarily in Germany and across the EU, delivering end-to-end enterprise processes such as order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. The company is headquartered in Košice‑Juh, Slovakia, and combines consulting, project delivery, and ongoing operations support.