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The Solutions Architect is a highly skilled, professional and technical individual acting as the primary liaison to support NICE customers through custom deployment projects. The Solution Architect works with clients, stakeholders and internal team members to elicit, document, and prioritize business, functional, and system-level requirements for the development of Statements of Work (SOW) for Enterprise Customers. The Solutions Architect will engage with clients early in the sales cycle, provide best practices consulting on the journey from premise to cloud solutions and stay involved through the onboarding process, assisting with the solution life-cycle and ensuring a seamless customer journey. The Solutions Architect will have a strong command of NICE products and ecosystem and be responsible for both technical and business tasks including management of customer expectations and satisfaction and the configuration of NICE solutions based on customer requirements and industry best practices. Ideal candidates need to have a consultative approach, be customer facing, effective communicators, and be willing to travel nationally.

Major Functions/Responsibilities:

Client Leadership
Elicit solution requirements and objectives from clients and stakeholders and then break them down into functional requirements, including use cases, user stories, and acceptance criteria
Assist with the development of business cases, project proposals, and SOWs as part of new business opportunity development
Perform data, process, and fit/gap analysis to help stakeholders define the scope of new solutions
Help inform and drive business process engineering and change management recommendations and planning
Prepare and deliver presentations to clients and stakeholders in the form of solution approaches or overviews, impact assessments, and project readouts.
Serve as the solution expert during the NICE pre-sales and implementation cycles, understanding Customer Centric Selling and Project Implementation methodologies such that you can ensure NICE delivers the right solution to the customer and that desired business outcomes are achieved (greatest ROI)

Technical Leadership:

Be able to speak to the capabilities of the NICE Product Suite
Assist with technical product configuration and scripting as required
Assist with process, data and object modeling in various application and database environments
Provide technical architecture leadership, analysis, design, development and enhancement
Maintain expertise and currency in industry leading contact center technologies
Solution Leadership
Assist with the project management of the end-to-end solution life-cycle
Conduct comprehensive cost/benefit analysis and prepare solution cases for projects
Present a professional image in conduct, attitude and attire
Communicate in an effective and professional way with customers in and outside of inContact.
Follow the company Code of Ethics and NICE policies and procedures at all times
Supervise during the solution life-cycle, any junior level client staff, or any sub-contracted personnel assigned to your project team
Follow the company Code of Ethics and NICE policies and procedures at all times
Communicate in an effective and professional way

Required Education, Experience, and Specific Job Related Skills

Education Requirement:

Bachelor's degree in a related technology field. MBA Preferred

Experience Requirements:

6+ years of solution architecture experience
6+ years of consulting or customer engagement experience
5+ years of contact center experience
Successful track record in best-of-class solutions with a portfolio of strong work examples
Analytically minded with strong interpersonal, presentation, project management, problem solving, and communication skills
Strong multi-tasking skills with the ability to adapt to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines between multiple technologies and tools across various clients
Experience in systems integration, process analysis and process diagramming
Ability to translate solution functionality and opportunities into clear, precise and easy to read functional documentation
Experience with iterative/phase-based project management approaches
Ability to visually communicate process/system requirements and recommendations in the form of cross-functional process flow and data flow diagrams
Strong business acumen to quickly learn new solution processes and understand how technology supports the business in achieving revenue and profit goals
Comfortable working in a fast paced, results-oriented environment
Ability to work with remote customers and communicate using virtual communication tools
Ability to manage deliverables across multiple projects and meet tight deadlines.
Develop a strong business and technical understanding of the inContact product family
Technical Project Management experience leading implementations in a SaaS environment
Proficiency in MS Office suite, including MS Visio (or other diagramming tool), and advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills

About NICE

NICE Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE) software products are used by 25,000+ global businesses, including 85 of the Fortune 100 corporations, to deliver extraordinary customer experiences, fight financial crime and ensure public safety. Every day, NICE software manages more than 120 million customer interactions and monitors 3+ billion financial transactions.

Known as an innovation powerhouse that excels in AI, cloud and digital, NICE is consistently recognized as the market leader in its domains, with over 8,500 employees across 30+ countries.

NICE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, neurotype, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.