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The candidate will be responsible for understanding customer requirements, responding to RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs, designing end-to-end technical solutions, and developing compelling proposals that address customer business and technology challenges. The role requires a combination of strong technical expertise, solution architecture knowledge, customer-facing communication skills, and the ability to translate complex requirements into practical, scalable, and cost-effective solutions. The candidate should also be familiar with modern data platforms, cloud technologies, reusable engineering frameworks, and AI-enabled approaches to accelerate data engineering and modernization initiatives. Key Responsibilities\nAnalyse customer RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs, understand business and technical requirements, and develop comprehensive technical responses and solution proposals.\nEngage directly with customers through discovery workshops, requirement discussions, technical presentations, and solution walkthroughs.\nDesign end-to-end Data & Analytics solutions covering data ingestion, integration, transformation, storage, data quality, governance, and analytics.\nDevelop high-level solution architectures for cloud data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, lake houses, and data modernization initiatives.\nRecommend suitable technologies and architecture patterns across AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, and other relevant platforms.\nDefine solution approaches for data migration, ETL modernization, legacy transformation, data consolidation, and cloud migration programmes.\nIdentify opportunities to leverage Generative AI, intelligent automation, and reusable frameworks to accelerate engineering, migration, testing, and operational activities.\nPrepare solution presentations, technical proposals, architecture diagrams, implementation approaches, and customer-specific capability decks.\nDevelop high-level effort estimates, resource plans, delivery timelines, assumptions, dependencies, and cost-effective delivery models, including core-flex and capacity-based models.\nCollaborate with sales, presales, architects, engineering teams, and delivery leadership to develop technically feasible, commercially viable, and differentiated customer solutions. 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