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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\nThe Principal Transformation Consultant (Server, Storage & Virtualisation) is the practice’s technical authority for compute, storage, hypervisor, and data protection platforms. The role is within the NTT DATA Advanced Infrastructure Services (AIS) practice,leads the design and delivery of private cloud and data centre solutions, including hypervisor modernisation and migration programmes as clients respond to changes in the VMware commercial landscape, and underpins the practice’s data centre migration and consolidation engagements.\nKey responsibilities\nLeads technical solutioning for private cloud, compute, storage, and backup opportunities, including requirements analysis, sizing and capacity planning, bill of materials/bill of quantities development, and effort estimation.\nDevelops proposal content, solution architectures, and statements of work for RFI/RFP/RFQ responses, including scope, deliverables, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.\nProduces high-level and low-level designs for virtualisation platforms (VMware VCF/vSphere, Nutanix AHV, Huawei DCS), software-defined storage, and data protection architectures.\nLeads hypervisor modernisation and 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reference architectures, estimation models, and reusable proposal assets for the compute and storage domain.\nTracks vendor roadmaps and commercial developments (Broadcom/VMware, Nutanix, Huawei, storage and backup vendors) and advises account teams on positioning.\nAcademic qualifications and certifications\nBachelor’s degree or diploma, or equivalent, in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.\nMore than 10 years hands-on technical experience in managing server, storage, virtualisation preferably in FSI industry\nIndustry relevant certifications such as VMware VCP/VCAP, Nutanix NCP/NCM, or Huawei HCIP/HCIE (Cloud Computing or Storage) essential.\nVeeam VMCE or equivalent backup certification, storage vendor certifications (Dell, NetApp, Huawei, Pure), HPE Master ASE, VMware Knight, Certified Datacenter Migration Specialist (CDMS), and TOGAF advantageous.\nRequired experience:\nExtended experience in a consulting or IT role within a large scale (preferably multi-national) technology services environment.\nDeep vertical/domain/industry expertise coupled with consulting and client engagement experience, demonstrating good experience in client needs assessment and change management.\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills are a must, including confident presentation to IT management and C-level audiences\nExtended experience in integrating the solutions for particular projects with the business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns, and best practices.\nExtended transformational consulting experience.\nProven ability to gather business requirements and translate them into technical requirements\nProven ability to translate technical requirements into a compelling solution proposal\nA solution-centric rather than product-centric mindset, recommending the approach that best meets the client’s requirements\nStrong document authoring capability, covering assessment reports, proposal documents, requirements documents, and solution specifications\nDesirable experience\nThe following experience is advantageous rather than mandatory:\nDemonstrable experience in enterprise infrastructure, with substantial experience in a consulting, pre-sales, or solution architecture capacity.\nExperience with VMware technologies (vSphere, vSAN, NSX, VMware Cloud Foundation) and at least one alternative hypervisor platform (Nutanix AHV, Huawei DCS/FusionCompute, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Proxmox VE).\nExperience with enterprise server platforms (Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant/Synergy, Cisco UCS, Huawei FusionServer), SAN/NAS storage arrays (Dell PowerStore/PowerMax, NetApp, Huawei OceanStor, Pure Storage), and SAN fabric design.\nExperience designing and operating enterprise backup platforms (Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup, Rubrik, or Cohesity), including recovery time/point objective design and DR orchestration.\nExperience delivering data centre migration or hypervisor migration at scale (hundreds of workloads or racks).\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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