Solution Architect

What You'll Do

Cisco seeks an Architect to help with project delivery. The Architect is a critical customer facing role that requires the instinctive ability to recognize gaps in customer capabilities and to translate them into business requirements and an execution strategy. The solutions typically span horizontally cross architectural boundaries and clearly target solutions to business challenges and drive outcomes in the customer environment.

The Architect will be delivering outcomes utilizing the full Cisco portfolio but with a primary focus on data center solutions, with responsibilities including, but not limited to the following:

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development of the overall vision that underlies the customer-centric solution, and plays a primary role in the design and implementation of that end-to-end solution.

• Lowers customer risk and leverages customer assets by consolidating and reconciling requirements, refining and validating dependencies, and confirming readiness for transformation

• Creates opportunities by Identifying gaps in customers' capabilities and relating them to business and technical architectures (solutions).

• Oversee the project life cycle, from initial kickoff through requirements analysis, design and implementation phases for projects within the solution area.

• Surveys customer landscape for solution insights, direction, vendors, and methods.

• Focuses on identification and execution of specific solutions that are multi-architectural.

• Orchestrates activities of solution architects from Cisco internal or third parties towards a common solution.

we have a smooth transition from what we've sold (and the associated customer expectations) and what we ultimately deliver

Will be hands on as and when required, can deliver end to end solution for their chosen primary specialization

Who You'll Work With

As the Solutions Integration Architect, your role will sit within the team reporting into the Senior Manager of Service Delivery in Northern Europe. Similar to the Service Delivery Manager, you will have an integral partnership with the counterpart in the Services Sales team.

Who You Are

You are a seasoned architect who has experience leading multiple projects and has usually performed in a variety of different roles in that life cycle.

Requirements:

• Requires an undergraduate degree (or equivalent).

• Several years of experience in customer centric roles, within delivery, IT, engineering; experience with Cisco router and switch, SDN / NFV, data center solutions, ACI or SDA project delivery, SD WAN solutions.

• CCIE preferred; experience with Containers, Ansible, Python, CICD environments seen as a plus

• Requires proven and effective leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with others through conflicting pressures and priorities while resolving complex issues.

• Ability to be a trusted advisor to influence, inspire confidence and build deep and enduring relationships with key executives who influence or make business decisions.

• Possess core skills in: problem solving, negotiating, business writing, customer relationship management, effective presentation, and active listening.

• Ability to understand customer strategies, business challenges, and desired business outcomes and develop a technology, solutions-oriented strategy that can deliver those outcomes.

• Conversant in IT operations processes (e.g., ITIL) and how IT processes, practices, and capabilities are leveraged in solution development, deployment, and management.

• Ability to deliver long-term, strategic business relationships that bring business growth results.

• Understands and can translate between client and Cisco technology methodologies and standards.

• Strong knowledge and understanding of the Services Portfolio of offerings.

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.