Lead Solution Architect

About the Role You Are Considering

Lead Solution Architect is a key role in the CIS Pre‑Sales and Solutioning organization reporting into regional/global level. Solution Lead is usually involved in medium to large multi‑tower opportunities. As the Solution Lead you will participate and actively support business development initiatives by managing the opportunity presales team and building most robust, optimized, cost‑effective and victory‑oriented solutions for CIS services. You will work closely with Regional and GDC Pre‑Sales and Solutioning management and different CIS senior stakeholders from the Onshore regions as well as directly with our clients.

• Typically involved from Deal Qualification to Contract Signature, Sales to Delivery Handover and for a limited period in the execution to provide continuity.
• Responsible for development of the end‑to‑end solution (Transformation, Transition and Run) covering multiple service lines and/or technology domains.
• Owns internal stakeholder management and visibility of core solution related metrics to approvers.
• Supports Sales Lead in pre‑qualification activities, including ROM costing and early solution shaping as appropriate.
• Develops solution & response strategy, standard versus non‑standard approach, aligned to the sales strategy. Clearly communicates to all bid team members.
• Ensures all client requirements are analyzed and distributed for solutioning, without gaps or duplication.
• Designs the solution and ensures the relevant solution artefacts are completed in line with global process.
• Excellent understanding of the competitor landscape, providing insight into the sales plan on how to beat competition.
• Provides expertise on commercially structuring deals to differentiate from the competition.
• Works with Deal Analyst to set up ADMT and create pricing structure; communicates structure & tagging strategy.
• Converts Price to Win into Cost to Win by Tower.
• Reviews and inputs to the contract schedules, SoW and SLA among other documents.
• Supports Tower Lead with 3rd parties’ direct engagements when needed.
• Contributes to proposal writing and guides the bid team on alignment to sales strategy, themes, scoring mechanism.
• Ensures Solution Approval in a timely manner in line with the Global Solution Approval Process and supports towers when required with their approvals providing an end‑to‑end view for their approvers.
• Leads the solution team in all client facing interactions.
• Supports Commercial Lead with negotiation of solution related schedules (SoW, SLA etc.).
• Manages solution team and ensures solution related deliverables are completed.
• Identifies and adds to the response and other capabilities that will bring value to the opportunity and/or show Capgemini capability.
• Ensures the solution and commercials are sustainable for the future, with ability to grow and upsell.
• Identifies and documents potential areas for upsell that have been discussed with client and handover to Account Team.

• 10 Years of Experience in Leading Small/Medium/Large (5M-100M) Multi‑tower complex presales initiatives in areas of End User Services/Enterprise Service Management/Cloud/Cyber Security.
• Customer engagement.
• Requirement for client facing skills will vary with an entry‑level Solution Lead being required past client‑facing experience to a senior Solution Lead having executive client‑facing experience.
• Able to articulate both transformational and managed services elements of deals.
• Strong presentational and communication skills; ability to lead / anchor client conversations; ability to pitch at right depth to different internal/external audiences.
• Ability to articulate value, benefits, storyline to client.
• Strong writing skills.

• Leadership of the solution team on deal; ability to coach, steer, challenge, guide — support in case of challenges or if tower lead is struggling.
• Strong team leader to manage and coach team through tough deadlines.
• Stakeholder management, engagement and socialisation;
  Senior solution leads have strong skills in handling organisational conflict across various parts of Capgemini (i.e. GBLs, BUs).
• Proficient in the Pre‑Sales Solutioning…