Sopra Steria: Cloud PreSales Senior Architect — Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

About Sopra Steria

Sopra Steria provides technology consulting, digital services and software solutions. Its employer description focuses on helping organisations change their operations through technology, combining business-sector knowledge with digital delivery. The business offers end-to-end support rather than describing its work as software coding alone. Its services connect an organisation's requirements with the technology and processes used to meet them, with an emphasis on practical, sustained improvements in how client organisations operate.

The position and its setting

Sopra Steria lists Cloud PreSales Senior Architect in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, under reference NOI0006532. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Architecture
• Employment type: Full-time
• Employer listing date: 13 October 2026
• Brands: Sopra Steria

Responsibilities and work described

• Cloud Technology Enthusiast who love solving business problems using technology
• Candidate should have experience with diverse customer and partner facing roles supported technical aspects of sales activities for the technology products and services such as Cloud –PaaS & IaaS, Databases & tools and Systems
• Be a key player in the pre-sales process and be able to understand complex customer environments and be able to build close customer relationships
• Take full ownership of technical pre-sales activities, driving solution strategy, competitive positioning, and customer success
• Development: and deliver high-impact proposals, ensuring alignment with client needs and industry best practices
• Research / execution: C-level client interactions, technical workshops, and deep-dive discussions to position solutions effectively
• Uses their recognised expertise to resolve issues
• Act as a trusted advisor and technology thought leader, guiding clients through their cloud transformation journeys
• Demonstrable experience leading teams and pitching to clients
• Identifies and controls risks
• Good command of the market in their domain: competitor products, trends, changes in regulations
• Internally and, where relevant, externally recognised expertise in one or more business domains
• Oversees performance (profitability, lead-times, quality) within their scope
• Advises senior business representatives on choices and implementation of a product
• Is a key player in pre-sales in Cloud offerings and helps identify sales opportunities
• Contributes to steering product developments in liaison with Practice Director

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Demonstrable experience in Azure and or AWS with a technical background and experience in technology deployments
• Demonstrable knowledge of Microsoft solutions and their application to a clients cloud strategy
• Leadership in orals during RFPs, client executive briefings, and high-stakes technical demonstrations
• Demonstrable experience of leading engagements and managing client stakeholders
• Engage and influence C-level executives, technical leaders, and business stakeholders
• Recognised in one or more business domains and recognised expertise with one or more products or product groups as a whole
• Expertise in workshop facilitation techniques, particularly the fundamentals of co-design work
• Good command of the impacts of agility
• Good command of and transfers motivational management practices
• Demonstrated experience managing several complex product assessment tasks
• Attributes and Qualities
• High level of written and oral communication
• Appetite for business challenge
• Motivate and inspire colleagues
• Customer orientated approach
• Innovative
• Problem solving skills
• Total Experience Expected: 12-18 years
• Microsoft Azure / AWS Solutions Architect Expert
• Azure IaaS (virtual machines, storage, networking, security)

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• An ability to see the bigger picture, understanding where activities are inter-related while ensuring dependencies are clear and appropriately managed to achieve success
• Adaptable and flexible to new work requests and highly demanding priorities
• Honed abilities to motivate and support others to achieve a common business goal
• Good knowledge of at least one business domain

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Work arrangement: Hybrid
• Advertised location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Sopra Steria

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Relevant skills

• SQL
• AWS
• Azure
• sales
• stakeholder management
• communication
• Linux
• Terraform