Chief Architect

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nationwide

Life on the team

The Chief Architect is aligned to one or two of our key customers to be their trusted advisor, innovating with them and help them achieve their goals. The role is pivotal in bridging the gap between business problems and technology solutions for their customers and is focussed on building strong and enduring, mutually profitable relationships.

What you’ll do

  • Build relationships with the customer’s Architecture decision makers and influencers to develop customer intimacy and trust.
  • Responsible for the creation of strategies/roadmaps or other techniques to drive enhanced levels of customer access and engagement
  • Provide solution leadership and architectural input to services sales opportunities.
  • Work closely alongside customer peers to develop a deep understanding of the customers strategy, goals, current environment, constraints and supplier ecosystem in order to drive digital transformation
  • Understand the interdependencies between solutions being proposed and inflight projects delivered by Computacenter or other customer projects delivered by other Ecosystem partners.
  • To contribute to the growth of the Services business by developing a pipeline of opportunity with the Sales and Services teams in the form of a strategic roadmap aligned to customer goals.
  • Contribute to the innovation agenda for the account and work with the Customer Experience team on innovation activities to drive business growth
  • Creation of customer specific thought leadership deliverables
  • Acts as the voice of the customer, industry, and internal advocate by providing insights, feedback, and challenges from the customer to internal teams
  • Responsible for the identification of co-creation opportunities with nominated customers
  • Build and maintain vendor relationships from a technology perspective, ensuring an understanding of their offerings and the competition in relation to the aligned customers
  • Proactive engagement in and contribution to the OCTO
  • Engage within a broad virtual team comprising Consultancy, Solution Leaders and other ISPs to ensure that solutions created are relevant to meet the needs of Computacenter’s broad customer base
  • Share information across the account team, ensuing the solutions proposed are fit for purpose and provide good value for all parties
  • Contribute to the success of the account by being a proactive and trusted member of the account leadership team

What you’ll need

  • Experience of building relationships at the highest levels within enterprise customers.
  • Passion for technology
  • Ability to communicate well, including presenting to an external audience, both business and technical.
  • Strong team player with energy and dynamism.
  • Personal flexibility & willingness to travel.

Why you should choose us

Freedom & trust

You’ll have the support on hand when you need it and the autonomy when you don’t. Feel right at home in an environment where you’re able to work with freedom and flexibility, and trusted to manage your own work.

Showing appreciation & having fun

Great performance is recognised, so too is the willingness to help others. Our Bravo! awards and Long Service Awards Scheme are just a taste of how we say thank you for a job well done. And when it comes to recognising success, we love to celebrate. Our company and team events are legendary!

Working with the best

Over 1,300 technology consultants, 900 project managers and 3,200 systems engineers come together to form our highly regarded professional services community. You’ll find they’re a close-knit team, where mutual trust and collaboration is the norm.

Sharing knowledge

We organise several events and initiatives, such our UK Professional Services Conference and ‘Lunch and Learn’ sessions, that bring together the brightest minds in the business. Here you can learn new things, network, and celebrate success together.

Exciting digital technology

Challenging and rewarding projects: The range of technologies and industries that we are so diverse, that no two projects are alike. The result? A role for you that’s varied and provides the opportunity to expand your expertise and develop your career further.

Health & wellbeing

Our people are our greatest asset and we’re passionate about supporting you in feeling good and staying healthy. We offer a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Champions, Mental Health First Aiders, Access to Work scheme, and more.

Personal development

We like to invest in our people. We offer training and technology certifications, mentoring and coaching, specialist or management careers, access to our on-the-go immersive learning platform, Percipio, and much more.

Inclusive workplace

People work best when they bring their whole selves to work, that’s why we see and value you as the amazing individual you truly are. We take a genuine interest you that extends beyond skills, knowledge, and experience. Our Employee Impact Groups champion best practice, celebrate diversity and promote inclusion within our industry.

Pension and financial security

Thinking ahead, planning for life’s uncertainties, or simply saving for a rainy day? We offer auto-enrolment onto our pension scheme, a Sharesave/SAYE scheme and more besides.

Flexible benefits

Do you fancy a new bicycle? Want to work-out at the gym? Or do you prefer to get-away from it all? With our voluntary flexible benefits platform, ‘My Benefits’, you can. Achieve savings with our Cycle2Work, GymFlex, Travel Insurance benefits and loads more.

You belong

You belong

We passionately believe in the power of diversity and inclusion. We celebrate our differences because we know a diverse workforce with different experiences and perspectives helps us win together. And to do that, you need to feel comfortable to bring your whole self to work – and you can only do that when you feel supported, valued and a sense of belonging which is what we strive to achieve.​

Your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. All that matters to us is that you share our vision, our values, and you bring the experience and skills we need.​

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a government scheme that helps employers attract, recruit and retain disabled staff. We welcome applications from people with a disability – and guarantee to interview applicants who have a disability and meet the essential requirements for the job.​

Winning Together

At Computacenter, we have been writing success stories for more than 40 years! Today, we’re driving digital transformation with over 20,000 employees worldwide. We develop IT strategies, implement new technologies and manage complex infrastructures.

As a proud, independent partner to some of the world’s leading technology providers, our portfolio covers workplace, applications & data, cloud & data center, security, and networking. What’s the secret of our success? Quite simply, it’s our people.

The people who bring their unique skills and perspectives to a diverse and inclusive environment that enables them to reach their full potential.

Winning Together

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