Solutions Development Architect Jobs

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What You'll Do

• Build, evaluate and implement plans and design proposals for high impact solutions; consider key factors such as their long-term effectiveness (service delivery and cost), practicality, technical limitations and criticality
• 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
• Hunt for deals, aligning activities with Service Sales teams for Cisco's Lifecycle selling and transformational opportunities
• Co-lead the pre-sales solution architecture and introduce the overall technical vision for a particular solution to stakeholders
• Demonstrate a cross-architecture approach in solutions development with mid to high level technical expertise to create journey maps and multi-year roadmaps
• Influence the shaping of future solutions by contributing to the architecture used across multiple products or systems
• Lead CX RFP/RFIs for your selected accounts

Who You'll Work With
In this role you will have the opportunity to collaborate across multiple functions; including working with Sales team, CX CTO and our Deal Acceleration 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.
What You Need

• Excellent executive level communication and presentation skills to simplify conveying the value of underlying sophisticated solutions.
• Fluency in German.
• Knowledge of Professional Services business with Delivery background working with strategic customers. Industry specific expertise for contextualizing solutions to the vertical.
• Consultative selling experience via designs, blueprints, architecture frameworks, systems or products (the solutions) and aligning them to the customer's desired business outcomes

Preferred Requirements are :

• At least one CCNP certification or one industry certification
• ONEx Technology Blue Belt or similar technical certification or equivalent skills
• Direct customer pre-sales experience or previous Cisco BD experience.
• Understanding of automation (Infra-/network as Code approach) and cloud market (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Container Orchestration and Management)

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!