Senior Solutions Advisor

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Solutions Senior Advisor designing Avaya and Unified Communications solutions for GDIT, a global government technology services company. Leading architecture, pricing, lifecycle sustainment, and re-compete proposal efforts.

Responsibilities:

  • Identify solutions based on business and technical criteria, analyze alternatives, and implement designs
  • Research current and emerging technologies and process methodologies and propose changes or tailoring
  • Assess existing system and business process architectures and recommend improvements
  • Ensure technical architecture teams deliver efficient and effective system solutions supporting business goals
  • Develop, enhance, and maintain service design procedures and processes using frameworks and methodologies
  • Prepare and present test plans, technical presentations, and analyst briefings
  • Identify customer requirements, analyze alternatives, and recommend software, platform, and network configurations
  • Update stakeholders on project cost, schedule, and quality against objectives
  • Coach and guide less experienced professionals
  • Serve as a team or task lead
  • Develop opportunities in Unified Communications, including E911, recording, DTENs, and remote site upgrades
  • Support strategic planning for Avaya licensing, subscription transitions, discounts, materials, and services
  • Develop tactical timelines and FAA plans of action from OEM and sales-engineering materials
  • Conduct market studies for new products, features, and services to ensure FAVES contract alignment
  • Support lifecycle sustainment and estimate replacement costs and services for end-of-sale products
  • Conduct project pricing and GDIT Gate reviews for proposals, including strategic and OEM pricing strategies
  • Respond to re-compete RFPs covering technical solutions, bills of materials, pricing, labor, and services
  • Define FAVES O&M support models for third-party support of Avaya products such as AEP and ACR

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 15+ years of related experience
  • Advanced knowledge of Avaya systems design and analysis, including configuration and/or programming of complex infrastructure, database, and application systems
  • Ability to adapt to changing business, client, and technical-environment needs
  • Demonstrated ability to innovate in Avaya design and thought to meet business needs
  • Proficiency in Voice, IP, ATM, Optical, Wireless, Multi-Media, Unified Communications, and Video technologies
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Deep analytical skills
  • Project and resource management skills
  • Skills in analyst briefings, system solutions, technical architecture, and technical presentations
  • Willingness to travel 10–25%
  • Ability to work 40 scheduled hours per week

Benefits:

  • Medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts
  • Dental plan options
  • Vision plan
  • 401(k) plan with pre-tax and post-tax contributions and company match
  • Flexible work weeks where possible
  • Vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
  • 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for new employees, prorated based on hire date
  • 10 paid holidays per year, prorated based on hire date
  • Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
  • Short- and long-term disability benefits
  • Life insurance
  • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
  • Personal accident insurance
  • Critical illness insurance
  • Business travel and accident insurance
  • Remote work
  • Identity verification and security process using advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence