Technical Solutions Architect - Financial Services Industries

Job description

The Business Entity
At Cisco, our strategy has empowered dozens of Global Service Providers to capture the many growth opportunities made possible by the Internet of Everything. We have enabled service providers to transform the experience, transform the business and transform the architecture with cloud-based capabilities. We leverage our assets to solve our Service Provider’s critical challenges. Do you want to help with this change? You can have the ability to manage market transitions in Mobility, Web, Media, Cloud, Cable, NGN, and Video!
The Team
We have an exciting Technical Solutions Architect (TSA) role open on our Thomson Reuters team! The TSA will be responsible for advancing and driving Global alignment of Thomson Reuters Data Center/Cloud services and Cisco’s compute, data center switching, automation, security, enterprise networking, collaboration and services portfolio. In this position, you will work across a diverse set of Thomson Reuters organizations and leverage a wide range of Cisco resources.
Role & Responsibilities
● The TSA will be focusing on providing high-level technical support and technology direction guidance to Thomson Reuters and the Cisco Global Account team.
● The TSA will be looking for ways to build his/her influence inside and outside of Cisco; scalability of information sharing is a key criteria for a TSA role.
● The TSA will be building and presenting Cisco product, technology and solutions information to a range of internal and external audiences. He/she should also be known outside of his/her account team for expertise either in a technology/range of technologies, or for customer relationship skills, understanding customer needs, and applying relevant Cisco solutions and resources to meet these needs.
● The TSA will share his/her knowledge within the account team and may provide informal training to customers and partners to develop further Cisco skills.
● TSA will lead RFPs/RFIs and provide technical consulting skills to customers.
Minimum Qualifications
● Cisco: Campus and Core Switching Platforms, Branch and Core Routing Platforms, Network Security, Wireless Infrastructure
● Network/fabric design, protocols and products: Ethernet, IP, switching, routing, spanning tree
● Network Services: Firewalls/IPS, load balancers, WAN optimization.
● Virtualization, Automation and Operation software and solutions.
● Network Management Applications
- Prime, APIC-EM, Lancope, Cisco ISE
● Familiarity of architecture standards such as TOGAF
● Understanding of Interconnections with Cisco Datacenter Architecture
Desired Skills
● 8+ years related work experience.
● Cisco product and end-to-end positioning experience.
● Typically requires BS/BA (EE/CS) or equivalent.
● CCIE certification highly desirable and/or preferred.
About Cisco
The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it's transforming our customers' businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces, including software and consulting services. As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented disruption. Your revolutionary ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment, to public and private sectors, and far beyond. Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place To Work. With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at Cisco.
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