Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales) – Financial Sector

About the role

This pre-sales Solutions Architect position works closely with sales teams on cloud solutions tailored to the financial sector. It covers needs analysis, technical design, proposals and tenders, and technical support for customers and product development. The position is based in Ankara.

Key responsibilities

• Take part in customer meetings with sales teams to analyse needs and requirements and give cloud consultancy for financial-sector solutions
• Define technical requirements, solution scope and architecture during project design
• Gather information and negotiate technically with technical teams
• Select products, infrastructure and hardware needed to adapt existing products and services to customer projects
• Handle the technical side of proposals, contracts and tenders with sales teams
• Support technical requirements for solutions from third parties, business partners and vendors
• Prepare technical topologies and solution documentation and include them in proposals and tenders
• Give technical advice on product and service development
• Accompany customers on data centre visits and deliver technical presentations
• Answer technical specifications and coordinate with all relevant teams

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (Computer, Electrical/Electronics, Telecommunications or related)
• At least 4 years of hands-on pre-sales work in solution design, planning, proposals, specifications and contracts with sales, technical and operations teams
• Projects for both public and private sector organisations
• Analytical thinking, strong communication and a team-oriented mindset

Required skills

• Deep architectural experience with at least one public cloud platform (Azure, AWS or GCP), preferably in the financial sector
• Hybrid and multi-cloud architecture (on-premises plus public cloud)
• High availability, fault tolerance and disaster recovery (BCP/DR) architectures
• Active-active / active-passive design
• Zero-trust architecture approach
• Penetration testing and security architecture reviews
• IAM, PAM, MFA, HSM and key management (KMS) solutions