Alfred & Victoria Associates is one of Nigeria’s leading ICT solution based company. Our company offers a wide range of services which are in high demand of today’s emerging market.
Responsibilities
- We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect – Infrastructure to lead the design and architecture of enterprise-grade infrastructure solutions.
- In this role, you will act as the technical authority across the entire solution lifecycle—from qualifying opportunities and crafting architecture to guiding implementation.
- You will work closely with sales teams, delivery teams, and enterprise customers to architect scalable, resilient, and high-performance infrastructure solutions that drive digital transformation and business growth.
- This role is 100% focused on infrastructure architecture, covering data centres, cloud platforms, compute, storage, virtualization, and hybrid environments.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Solution Architecture:
- Lead end-to-end architecture and design of enterprise infrastructure solutions aligned with customer business and technical requirements.
- Architect complex multi-technology solutions spanning compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and cloud platforms.
- Develop reference architectures and enterprise solution frameworks for key infrastructure platforms.
- Ensure solutions adhere to industry best practices, enterprise architecture standards, and regulatory requirements.
- Serve as the technical authority during major enterprise solution engagements.
Core Infrastructure Architecture
Design and deliver enterprise solutions across the following domains:
Data Centre Architecture:
- Enterprise data centre design and modernization
- Infrastructure consolidation and optimization
- High availability and fault-tolerant architectures
- Disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
Compute & Virtualization:
- Enterprise server infrastructure (x86, RISC)
- Virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM)
- Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)
- Container infrastructure and orchestration.
Enterprise Storage:
- SAN / NAS architectures (block, file, object)
- Storage performance optimization and tiering
- Software-defined storage
- Enterprise data lifecycle management.
Backup & Disaster Recovery:
- Enterprise backup architecture (Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup)
- Replication and disaster recovery frameworks
- Business continuity infrastructure
- RTO/RPO planning and design.
Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure:
- Hybrid cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Cloud migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor)
- Multi-cloud infrastructure integration
- Infrastructure modernization and cloud-native adoption.
Presales & Revenue Enablement:
- Act as lead technical advisor during enterprise sales engagements.
- Translate customer business needs into innovative technical solutions.
- Support sales teams in opportunity qualification, technical positioning, and proposal development.
- Lead technical presentations, architecture workshops, and executive briefings.
- Conduct proof-of-concepts (POCs), solution demonstrations, and technical validations.
OEM & Technology Partner Collaboration:
- Work closely with global technology vendors (Dell, HPE, VMware, NetApp, Cisco, Microsoft) to design optimized solutions.
- Maintain deep expertise across enterprise infrastructure technology ecosystems.
- Participate in vendor certification programs and technical enablement initiatives.
- Contribute to joint solution development with OEM partners.
Customer Advisory & Strategic Consulting:
- Act as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers and executive stakeholders.
- Provide technology advisory services on infrastructure strategy and digital transformation.
- Conduct infrastructure maturity assessments, architecture reviews, and technology roadmap development.
- Support strategic accounts with long-term infrastructure planning and modernization initiatives.
Architecture Governance & Solution Assurance:
- Ensure all proposed solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and standards.
- Provide technical oversight during solution implementation.
- Support project teams during deployment to ensure architectural integrity.
- Review and validate technical designs produced by engineering teams.
Technical Knowledge Leadership:
- Maintain deep knowledge of emerging trends in data centre modernization, hybrid cloud, and infrastructure automation.
- Provide internal technical mentorship and knowledge sharing.
- Contribute to internal architecture standards, frameworks, and reusable solution templates.
Success Metrics
Performance in this role will be measured by:
- Solution Quality:Scalability, resilience, and architectural excellence of designed solutions.
- Commercial Impact:Technical win-rate on strategic opportunities.
- Customer Satisfaction:Credibility and trust established with enterprise clients.
- Revenue Contribution:Effective support of sales teams in closing infrastructure deals.
- Standards Adoption:Development and implementation of architecture standards and frameworks.
- Project Success:Successful delivery of enterprise technology transformation projects.
- Knowledge Contribution:Internal mentorship and creation of intellectual property.
Qualifications & Experience
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Experience:
- 10–15 years of enterprise IT experience.
- 5–7 years in infrastructure architecture roles.
- Proven track record designing and delivering large-scale enterprise infrastructure solutions.
- Experience working within system integrators, OEM vendors, or enterprise consulting organizations.
- Demonstrated success in presales and solution advisory capacities.
Preferred Certifications:
Infrastructure & Virtualization:
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP) or higher
- Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP)
- Citrix Certified Professional.
Storage & Data Centre:
- Dell EMC Proven Professional (Storage or Data Centre)
- NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer (NCIE)
- Hitachi Vantara Qualified Professional.
Cloud Certifications:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Google Professional Cloud Architect.
Converged Infrastructure:
- Cisco Data Centre certifications (CCNA/CCNP Data Centre)
- HPE ASE – Server Solutions
- VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) – Advantageous.
Key Competencies:
Architecture Leadership:
- Enterprise architecture thinking
- Infrastructure solution architecture
- Technology strategy alignment
- Infrastructure roadmap development.
Business & Commercial Skills:
- Presales engagement and solution selling
- Technical solution positioning and differentiation
- Executive-level communication and presentation
- Commercial acumen and proposal development.
Technical Expertise:
- Data centre architecture and modernization
- Hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure
- Enterprise compute, storage, and virtualization
- Backup, recovery, and business continuity
- Infrastructure automation and orchestration.
Leadership Skills:
- Stakeholder engagement and management
- Technical mentorship and team development
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Strategic advisory capabilities.
- XStandards Adoption: Development and implementation of architecture standards and frameworks.
- Project Success:Successful delivery of enterprise technology transformation projects.
- Knowledge Contribution:Internal mentorship and creation of intellectual property.
Technical Expertise Required:
Infrastructure Platforms:
- Enterprise servers (rack, blade, tower)
- Enterprise storage platforms (SAN, NAS, DAS, object)
- Data centre networking (LAN, SAN, spine-leaf)
- Virtualization platforms (server, desktop, network virtualization)
- Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)
Cloud Platforms:
- Hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Public cloud IaaS and PaaS
- Enterprise cloud migration architectures
- Cloud-integrated infrastructure environments
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible, ARM templates, CloudFormation).
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