Data & AI Presales Architect

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BYTES:

Established in 1982, Bytes has grown rapidly and now employs over 600+ people across 5 locations in the UK and Ireland. Our turnover in Financial Year 2019 was in excess of £520M. We work with SME’s, corporates and public sector organisations to modernise and digitally transform their IT infrastructures.

We invest in our employees through on-going support, training and advice to help them achieve their career aspirations, rewarding success both financially and personally. There is opportunity to grow and move internally which can be seen through our long-standing employees who have developed existing and new skills to move into senior positions in the organisation leaving space for new team members to begin their journey.

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Why Bytes?

• Over 600 staff (plans to double in size over the next 5 years)
• Operating from modern, hybrid working environments with offices in Leatherhead, Reading, London or Manchester
• Winners of an array of industry awards
• Sunday Times Top 100 Best Places to Work
• Excellent training and career prospects offered
• Fantastic office with gym, canteen, open plan, smart casual dress code, regular incentives and company events
• Supporters of 85+ charities with strong commitment to diversity and sustainability

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Are you looking for the opportunity to support in defining an exciting strategic area for Bytes?

Bytes ability to deliver technical projects for our customers is growing and we are now seeking to support that through our Cloud Technical Presales Team - to be able to focus more on projects around Data & Artificial Intelligence.

The Technical Presales team’s primary mission within the wider Bytes organisation is to work alongside our valued customers and turn “talking about technology” into “doing technology with us”. Whilst not specifically a “hands on” delivery role, we are seeking experts who can instantly gain technical credibility with our customers to enable us to discuss their technical needs in depth, with a lens of turning it into a project with Bytes.

We are looking for someone who can bring insight and knowledge when it comes to the Data & AI landscape, from designing Big Data/Cognitive Services High Level Designs, to planning Proof of Concept projects with our customers, to talking about the next generation AI landscape of productivity AI and AI platforms such as OpenAI, the Azure OpenAI service or AWS bedrock.

Have you got experience (“hands-on” or in a presales capacity) in the Data & AI landscape? Do you have the ability to understand complex data topics and simplify them for our customers? Do you have the ability to turn a conversation into a PoC?

Then we want to speak to you!

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with internal delivery and our partner networks to deliver end to end data solutions for customers

• Work with customers to help them define their data strategy including:

• Creation of technical documentation to support customer implementations

• Support internal sales team with opportunities providing technical insight and qualification

• Work with technical and business stakeholders to define customer requirements and translate into solution designs

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS:

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Educational Qualifications:

• Not essential but degree level qualification is usually put in

ESSENTIAL OR DESIRABLE

Professional Qualifications

• Any of the solution architect or data cloud certs in AWS or Azure as desirable

ESSENTIAL OR DESIRABLE

Years of Experience

• 3+

ESSENTIAL OR DESIRABLE

Other Requirements

• Any of the following are desirable:
  DP200 Azure Data Engineer Associate
• DP203 Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure
• Azure Solution Architect Expert
• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
• PowerBI Data Analyst

ESSENTIAL OR DESIRABLE

CORE Competencies & SKILLS – BASED ON POSITION AND GRADE

• Knowledge and experience of designing data solutions in one of Microsoft Azure or AWS. Both ideal

• Relevant experience with Azure AI Services and Microsoft Fabric

• Strong communication skills and experience in describing technical solutions to senior IT stakeholders

• Experience with helping develop customer’s data strategy and deriving business outcomes through technology adoption

• Strong team player

• Strong understanding of data security best practice