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We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion - it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.\nYour day at NTT DATA\nThis Senior Data Architect’s role acts as the strategic technical advisor between Sales, Clients, Industry Leaders, Delivery and Global Practices, with specific focus on Enterprise Data and AI. This role offers the opportunity to shape the Data go-to-market strategy in a high-growth market, backed by a global delivery network and strong partner ecosystem.\nAs part of the role, you are responsible for helping our Sales team develop, influence and elevate executive conversations specifically around their Data and Application estate. In your role you are responsible for developing, supporting and closing opportunities in data strategy, analytics, cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric), and related managed services, working closely with local clients, partners, and internal delivery teams. Through your experience, you help elevate client conversation towards organizational transformation, long-term data governance strategy, AI adoption, information architecture, ontology-driven business models and industry-specific digital operating models.\nYou possess broad enterprise architecture capability, and are not beholden to a single technology domain - you have a broad understanding of Microsoft, Databricks, AWS, Snowflake and other technology capabilities, and you can combine this with strong consulting skills and commercial awareness to have a conversation with business stakeholders. You enjoy engaging with the C-suite to shape strategic roadmaps, challenge thinking and identify transformation opportunities, whilst you bring enough technical depth to build credibility with technical teams. \nIn addition to opportunity shaping, you will help build industry-specific propositions across Financial Services, Manufacturing, Mining and Healthcare, translating global capabilities into locally relevant client outcomes.\nKey Responsibilities:\nAct as a strategic advisor to Sales and Client Managers, leading executive-level discovery and value-led conversations.\nFacilitate Client discussions aimed at understanding business requirements related to their data and applications estate - including business strategy, operating models, data maturity, AI readiness, governance and overall technology direction.\nHelp shape and inform client deals and develop client opportunities alongside our Sales team. \nAble to define target-state architectures conceptually, capability roadmaps and investment priorities.\nHelp inform and build commercial models to support client opportunities.\nValidate architecture, security, integration, data governance, AI governance and delivery approaches with client and internal specialists. \nReview solution estimates, delivery assumptions, commercial models and execution risks. \nTranslate complex technical strategies into compelling executive narratives, proposals and statements of work.\nLocalise global application offers and help develop industry-specific offerings, accelerators and thought leadership for the South African market.\nMentor sales teams by raising technical capability and improving qualification discipline.\nRecommended Knowledge & Experience:\n10+ years in enterprise architecture, consulting, solution strategy or technical pre-sales\n8+ years operating in an applications landscape (as opposed to purely an infrastructure environment) with specific focus on D&A technology solutions (MDM, Data Quality, Data Governance, Data Engineering and Data Cloud platforms)\nStrong understanding of enterprise applications, software engineering and modern digital platforms.\nSolid understanding of data platforms, analytics tools, and AI/ML solution offerings.\n Demonstrated experience developing enterprise data strategies, AI adoption roadmaps and information governance models.\nWorking knowledge of ontology-based information modelling, knowledge graphs, metadata management and semantic architectures.\nStrong understanding of Microsoft Data & AI, AWS Data & AI, Snowflake and other technology ecosystems.\nAbility to develop industry reference architectures for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Mining or Healthcare advisable.\nStrong commercial acumen, proposal development and executive presentation capability. \nAbility to interrogate delivery models, estimates and commercial risk.\nPreferred Profile:\nThe ideal candidate combines the curiosity of a technical engineer, the breadth of an Enterprise Architect and the commercial mindset of a strategic pre-sales leader. They genuinely enjoy the process of developing a client idea from initial thought through to deliverable solution and engaging with clients to shape that journey. Depth in a single technology remains valuable, however, success in this role will come from the candidates ability to connect applications, data, AI, cloud, governance and operating models into coherent enterprise strategies.\nYou will love this role if you:\nYou enjoy story-telling in a technology context, and you believe in taking people along on the journey.\nYou genuinely like engaging and interacting with clients and facilitating conversations with diverse audiences.\nYou prefer sitting around a table with senior executives instead of communicating through proposals and simply responding to RFPs.\nYou are energised by understanding large complex problems, trail-blazing into the unknown and discovering new ways to solve challenges.\nYou like keeping abreast of industry and technology trends, including enterprise strategy, all things AI and data-driven transformation.\nYou enjoy building offerings, industry propositions and reusable frameworks. \nYou thrive in ambiguous environments where you can rely on your experience to advise and support clients\nYou are equally credible with executives, architects and delivery teams.\nThis role may not be for you if:\nYou prefer narrow product specialisation over enterprise consulting.\nYou are uncomfortable engaging senior executives without detailed preparation.\nYou are seeking primarily delivery management or hands-on engineering responsibilities.\nYou prefer mature, highly structured environments with limited ambiguity.\nYou lack the technical depth.\nWhat success looks like after 12 months:\nNTT DATA is increasingly invited into early-stage executive strategy conversations.\nSales teams consistently engage you to shape complex enterprise opportunities.\nWe are having energised and active conversations in the market with many clients around enterprise AI and data strategy engagements.\nIndustry-specific propositions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Mining and Healthcare are established and generating qualified pipeline.\nExecutive relationships have been developed with client technology and business leadership across key accounts.\nSouth Africa is recognised internally for localising global Data & AI capabilities into market-relevant offerings.\nWorkplace type:\nHybrid WorkingAbout NTT DATA\nNTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune\nGlobal 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through\nresponsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with\nunmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and\napplication services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move\nconfidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more\nthan 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as\nestablished and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each\nyear in R&D.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nNTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us. Apply today.\nThird parties fraudulently posing as NTT DATA recruiters\nNTT DATA recruiters will never ask job seekers or candidates for payment or banking information during the recruitment process, for any reason. Please remain vigilant of third parties who may attempt to impersonate NTT DATA recruiters whether in writing or by phone in order to deceptively obtain personal data or money from you. All email communications from an NTT DATA recruiter will come from an @nttdata.com email address. 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