11 Oct
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HCLTech
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Chennai
CX – Senior Solution Architect
Role Summary
We are hiring a senior solution architect with deep Customer Experience (CX) and contact centre domain expertise to solution and shape deals for our pursuit team. The priority is genuine domain depth — hands-on CCaaS platform expertise , customer journey design , and the ability to hold a room in front of client decision makers. Experience in Delivery, consulting or platform/partner backgrounds would also be an asset.
Must Have
- Ability to explain, consult and provide solutions addressing key challenges and day-to-day delivery requirements across the CX value chain — pre-sales, customer onboarding, order management, sales support, technical support and more.
- Demonstrated experience designing customer journeys across voice and digital channels — current-state mapping, friction identification, and target-state design — using collaborative design tools such as Miro, Figma, Replit or equivalent. Journey work must be tied to measurable business outcomes (containment, AHT, first-contact resolution, CSAT, cost-to-serve).
- Hands-on depth in running demos using at least one enterprise CCaaS platform — Amazon Connect, Genesys Cloud, NICE CXone, Five9. Must have personally run solution demos and discovery sessions directly with customers. Should be comfortable being challenged on architecture, integration and commercial trade-offs.
- Fluency in core CX and support delivery metrics (resolution, CSAT/NPS, revenue, retention, cost-to-serve) and the ability to explain how design decisions move them.
- Strong customer-facing communication — able to consult, challenge and convince senior decision makers on business advantages, solution approach and pricing model.
Key Success Factors
- Customer Experience Management (CXM) / contact centre solution design experience across Hyperscaler, Manufacturing, Telecom or Retail managed services engagements.
- Proven track record of building proofs of concept and custom demonstrations showcasing use-case-specific solutions.
- Strong understanding of the business value delivered by CX transformation platforms, agentic implementations in CX, Gen AI based CX tools, intelligent automation and conversational assistants — and the judgement to tell a sound solution from a plausible-sounding one.
Day in the Life Of
- Own the solution across the bid lifecycle (solution ownership, bid management, collateral preparation), coordinating across Sales, Delivery, Finance and Product.
- Create, write, review and proofread proposals, responses and client presentations for quality, cohesiveness of win themes and accuracy of content. Excellent skills in MS Office (Powerpoint/Word/Excel)
- Contribute to resource sizing, commercial engineering, business case creation and curation of customer case studies.
- Support Sales and GTM with lead qualification, presentations, proposals, sales strategy and competitive intelligence.
- Design and present customer journey maps and solution blueprints as part of client-facing discovery and pitch sessions.
- Prepare pitches, POCs and roadmaps for customers across the globe.
- Create marketing assets supporting the GTM plan — website content, brochures, white papers, competitive value propositions.
- Maintain current technical and business knowledge of industry direction, platform roadmaps and new service offerings.
Qualifications and Experience
- 15–20 years of experience in CX / contact centre solutioning, CX consulting, pre-sales or delivery within a BPO, Techno-functional roles in CX Partner organizations
- Meaningful exposure to pre-sales, RFP/RFI response or deal pursuits. Candidates who have run large delivery operations (5+ years) and moved toward solutioning or sales support are welcome.
- Extensive and deep understanding of contact centre operations, technical support services and customer experience management offerings.
- Platform familiarity across the CX stack:
◦ CCaaS: Genesys Cloud, NICE CXone, Five9, Amazon Connect (depth required in at least one)
◦ CRM / engagement: Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics
◦ Cloud & AI services: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Science or Business Management.
- Post Graduate Diploma in Management
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