Data Center Technical Solutions Architect Why you'll love Cisco What You'll Do Why Cisco

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What You'll Do

Senior customer -focused technical and architectural sales professional

• You will provide a consultative relationship with the customer and collaborate with the team and business entities to develop customer focused architectures driving industry-wide innovation
• You will lead the architectural design and associated Cisco technology strategy around Data Centre in alignment with key business drivers and market issues for an individual customer.
• You will demonstrate business relevancy to executive partners.
• You will be as a trusted advisor in an account(s) to demonstrate the business value of Cisco solutions, architectures, and services by aligning opportunities with a 3-5 year cross-architectural vision.
• You will serve as the lead advocate for customers within Cisco.
• You will interpret the customers business and market drivers, with the customers needs into strategic (long term) technical architecture to solve business problems
• You will evaluate different approaches of Cisco vs. competitor solutions and resolve approach is most appropriate for the customers problem based on how the different models solve a business problem, including knowing when to contend vs collaborate.
• You look at a deep technical component of a solution and explain how it is meaningful to a customers business vs a competitor
• You have skills to do a competitive analysis at the technical and business level flexibly as needed.
• You are agile/open to change/innovator/ knowledge across multiple verticals/energetic with a real passion for the role/team and the customer.
• You have a deep understanding of the industry trends in the customers vertical.
• You understand and you are able to effectively map business drivers, outcomes and capabilities to technology solutions.
• You have advanced knowledge in existing and emerging technology concepts, protocols, standards, etc within and adjacent to customer specialization.
• You have the ability to demonstrate this knowledge and select appropriate technologies to address customer business challenges.
• You understand the impact (design and business outcome wise) of implementation of these technologies in customer environment.
• You take an active leadership role in providing customer requirements and inputs for tools required (e.g. return on investment tool, etc.) back to Business Entities / BU / CMO / partner events such as enablement, Cisco Live speaker/contributor, etc.
• You help in the technology strategy and field enablement in the area of coverage.
• You are an active member of VT community.
• You act as liaison between the Account Team and industry organizations (IEEE, IETF, MPLS forum etc) to ensure the customer's architectural vision aligns with industry leading practices
• Overall we are looking for someone to join a new team, full of desire and transformational energy to take our customers on a journey with us in this ever-changing world we live in. Come stoked/prepared for change/new ways of working and most of all to have some fun

Why Cisco

At Cisco, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference.

Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge comes from our people.

We connect everything – people, process, data and things – and we use those connections to change our world for the better.

We innovate everywhere - From launching a new era of networking that adapts, learns and protects, to building Cisco Services that accelerate businesses and business results. Our technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education and more – from Smart Cities to your everyday devices.

We benefit everyone - We do all of this while striving for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.

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