Customer Solutions Architect- Technical Sales- Mid Market

Description
TELUS Business Solutions Career Opportunity!
With TELUS, you are part of something bigger. Our social impact is using our world-leading technology to create meaningful change, give back to help communities thrive, and help those who need it most. As a part of our team, you help make the future friendly. We’re committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability — your unique contributions and talents are valued and respected here.
Join our team
The Customer Solutions Architect (CSA) team connects our customers with industry-leading technology solutions to create opportunities and solve business challenges across various segments within the private sector. Located across Canada, the CSA team focuses on pre-sales architecture and creating comprehensive technology roadmaps. By providing thought leadership and leveraging TELUS’ breadth of technology solutions to enable customers’ business goals, we assist Canadian businesses in prioritizing their initiatives to what matters most.
Working collaboratively with Sales, you will develop and cultivate relationships at all levels within our customers’ organization, boost customer satisfaction and become a trusted advisor. Using your ability to be a strategic thinker and technology influencer, you will clearly articulate a holistic view of integrating technology as an enabler of our customers’ strategic initiatives.
Here’s the impact you’ll make and what we’ll accomplish together
As a Customer Solutions Architect within the mid-market team, you will be the integral connection between TELUS and our customer’s business. You will lead the architecture development of innovative solutions by the following:

• Be an advocate for the customer by leveraging the appropriate resources within TELUS and our partners
• Develop digital transformation roadmaps based on our customers’ unique technical environments
• Regular touch base sessions with internal stakeholders to remain current on TELUS’ technology offerings
• Highly organized: you can handle ambiguous ideas and help drive the team to a concrete plan
• With a combination of business acumen, consulting ability, technical and sales skills, you thrive in finding the right services to adopt and expand TELUS solutions by clearly demonstrating the positive impact on our customer’s business objectives.
• Staying on the leading edge of technology and challenging the status quo

Qualifications
You're the missing piece of the puzzle

• 3+ years of experience in leading the architecture of solutions across multiple technologies
• Understand the IT/Telecommunications competitive landscape across Canada
• Ability to formulate solutions in a complex technology and business environment
• Proven track record in effectively working and leveraging cross-functional resources in an organization to lead an initiative or technical solution
• Customers-First passion and excellence in customer relationship development
• Technical understanding across multiple-solution portfolios such as: Telecommunications, Mobility, Unified Communications, Security, Cloud and IT Hosting Solutions
• Experience leading and facilitating: workshops, whiteboard discussions, technology roadmaps, and consulting conversations with customers
• Passionate about continuous learning and personal development
• Sales training/account planning – strong asset
• Ability to discuss customer solution benefits from both a technical and financial perspective
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship skills; be seen as a peer and advisor to executive-level clients leading them to embrace TELUS solutions as strategic to their business

What You Can Expect From Us

• We embrace and thrive in a highly dynamic collaborative environment leveraging the individual strengths of others
• A culture committed to giving; every year we donate time and resources in our communities
• We embrace and thrive in a highly dynamic collaborative environment leveraging the individual strengths of others
• An environment where you’re encouraged to share and act on your ideas
• A fun, dynamic team that works and plays every day; great ideas can come as easily during an impromptu hallway soccer match or social team outing

What You Get

• Every day, we connect Canadians and our communities to the people and information that matters most to them
• You can come to work in one of our environmentally-sustainable, technologically-advanced office; you can meet customers in our next generation, connected retail stores; or, in many cases, you can work from home
• Our rewards package includes: profit sharing bonus, optional stock purchase plan, dedication to a diverse and inclusive team culture with loads of career development opportunities, flexible Total Rewards benefit plan with many innovative options and programs including a DC Pension
• We give where we live and are making a big difference in communities’ right across the country
• How big? Since 2000, we have given over $440 million and 6.8 million hours of our time to charities and non-profits in Canada
• It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do or how you do it, at TELUS, your unique contribution and talents will be valued and respected