About Us: Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 250,000 employees and business partners across 66 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. This role belongs to our German subsidiary Wipro Technologies GmbH with a headquarter in Frankfurt. Nature of the project Scope of the project is to provide Professional Services for our client. The work includes developing and implementing and managing customized software solutions for our client’s end customers. The product stack is VMware’s cloud portfolio including but not limited to VCF, NSx, vRA, vRO, ARIA etc. Your working area & responsibilities As a VCF Consulting Architect, you will acquire intimate knowledge of the customer’s business goals (and measurements) and use your in-depth knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation to work with customers on building successful implementation roadmaps. Your goal is to lead the customer through their journey to successfully adopt VCF for their end users. This is a consulting position, where you will be intensively using VMware’s architectural methodology, technical, business, and leadership skills. You will gather and analyze customer business and technical requirements and guide the customer on best-practice configurations to create high-level and low-level designs. You will be expected to take full ownership of customer technical architecture, lead consultant(s), and take responsibility for all project deliverables. You will create test plans to validate deployment processes aligned to customer use-cases, and create launch and operations plans to increase user adoption and consumption. You will work directly with customers to transfer your knowledge of their environment, either by partnering with key customer stakeholders, or by presenting to small groups. In addition to end-to-end technical governance of your project, you will also identify and work with the Project Manager to manage commercial, cost, schedule, operational and scope risks, with possible mitigation(s). You will manage customer expectations and work with Project Managers to input to project plans with realistic timelines. You will partner with the project manager on project budget, resource planning and all aspects of efficient project delivery. You will manage customer and internal escalations; collaborate with VMware support and engineering teams as needed to resolve product and customer issues. You will interact with various customers’ teams, from technical engineers and system administrators to business leaders and executives. You will communicate effectively to all audiences—this is key to the success of your projects. Your skillset 8+ years of industry experience and 5+ years’ experience working on VMware technologies. 3+ years’ experience in either of o VCF – Virtual Cloud foundation o ARIA Automation VCAP – DCV, VCAP – CMA (Minimum one of these) Local residency Local language fluency is mandatory (German) English as an additional language is desirable Security clearance: Following security clearance is nice to have o Germany: S2 (U2 – Secret Clearance) Benefits include: New Hires Buddy-Program Regular All-hands Meetings Referral Program Comprehensive Learning Offerings Company pension plan Highly international, high-Performance culture Diversity is in our DNA Women Of Wipro Network Top-notch Preventive Health Care benefit Applications from people with disabilities with appropriate suitability are explicitly welcome. At Wipro, we endeavor to provide a formidable platform for professionals who will be our change agents – catalysts who are torchbearers of our fortitude to excel and redefine the limits of technology to make our clients successful. Our hiring team focuses on the recruitment of talented professionals in the industry. If you are experienced in the pursuit of excellence in IT, and looking for challenging opportunities to actualize your fire within, look no further. A career at Wipro offers just that and a lot more.