Solution Development Architect

Job Description

What You'll Do

• Hunt for deals, aligning activities with Service Sales teams for Cisco's Lifecycle selling and transformational opportunities
• Identifies, analyzes and resolves system design weaknesses. Influences the shaping of future solutions by contributing to the architecture used across multiple products or systems.
• Co-leads the pre-sales solution architecture and introduces the overall technical vision for a particular solution to stakeholders
• Leads all CX RFP/RFIs for their selected accounts
• Creates, evaluates and implements plans and design proposals for high impact solutions; considers key factors such as their long-term effectiveness (service delivery and cost), practicality, technical limitations and criticality.
• Leverages a cross-architecture approach in solutions development with mid to high level technical expertise to create journey maps and multi-year roadmaps
• Focus on pre-sales architecture activities and ensuring a follow-thru with post-sales architects; Become the bridge to ensure the scoped solution is delivered

Who You'll Work With

In this role you will have the opportunity to collaborate across multiple functions; including working with our Deal Acceleration Team, CX CTO, and Sales team to progress opportunities to closure with minimal friction. You will work with internal/external partners, including ecosystem partners, to help ensure comprehensive and scalable technology implementations can be realized.

Who You Are

• Demonstrate consultative selling motions with confidence via designs, blueprints, architecture frameworks, systems or products (the solutions) and aligning them to the customer’s desired business outcomes
• Knowledge of Professional Services business with Delivery background working with strategic customers
• Demonstrates industry specific expertise that is desirable for contextualizing solutions to the vertical
• Excellent executive level communication and presentation skills to simplify conveying the value of underlying sophisticated solutions

Preferred Requirements are:

• At least one CCNP technical certification or one industry certification
• ONEx Technology Blue Belt or similar technical certification or equivalent skills
• Direct customer pre-sales experience
• Previous Cisco BD experience

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their businesses, AND we are a hardware company, a software company, and a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box!

Cisco is at the vanguard of impact: delivering our technology in meaningful ways allowing people to live more fulfilling and richer lives. It's why we exist. We are a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!