Remote Pre-Sales Solutions Architect
at WillowTree

Summary

Join WillowTree as a Solutions Architecture Director and lead architecture leadership in pre-sale and implementation stages with clients and executive partners. Provide technical expertise to architect, plan, and initiate new projects. Support delivery teams and implement client partner's vision.

Requirements

• Multi-platform familiarity, with expertise in one or more of the following: Front-end mobile technologies (iOS, Android, Web/JS), Backend cloud and/or enterprise platforms (AWS/Azure), Content management systems, analytics platforms, and other 3rd party frameworks
• Experience delivering software in an agency/client-service environment
• Experience having commercial conversations involving budgets and fees
• Experience with software estimation, work planning, and building project plans within time/cost constraints
• Ability to break down complex ideas to both technical and non-technical individuals
• You're excited to learn the principles of mobile software development
• Experience quickly iterating and refining a product vision with a client by offering multiple approach options
• Passion to apply modern processes that transform client organizations (e.g. continuous delivery, rapid iteration, and agile-inspired methodologies)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to use repeatable frameworks and best practices to incorporate new technologies or concepts
• Appreciation for the wider client enterprise, beyond a single project or initiative
• Desire to expand an account to holistically service a client
• Equally comfortable working in pre-sale and post-sale environments
• An eye for detail and an ability to navigate ambiguity

Responsibilities

• Lead scoping, technical design, and work planning during the presale process while speaking with prospective clients about our firm's engineering capabilities
• Play the lead role in technical architecture and discovery projects, using consulting methods to refine the product and technical architecture of client projects
• Own a “technology vertical”, encompassing solution design, platform selection, implementation support, and thought leadership (e.g. AWS, Content Management Systems, hybrid mobile frameworks, etc)
• Enhance existing project teams with architectural account-level guidance or specific subject matter expertise

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits - Medical, Vision, Dental (Including an option for 100% coverage of individual employee medical premiums)
• Life & Disability Insurance
• 401K matching
• Flexible paid time off & paid company holidays
• Parental Leave
• Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)