Senior Solution Architect

Job Description General Function The Senior Datacenter, Cloud & Network Solution Architect is a client-facing technical leader responsible for designing secure, resilient, scalable, and financially viable infrastructure solutions. The role emphasizes enterprise datacenter architecture, hybrid and public cloud platforms, and Cisco-based network architecture rather than ongoing managed service operations.

Reporting directly to the Vice President of Solutions, this architect leads discovery, creates end-to-end target architectures, develops technical and commercial solution components, and communicates recommendations to executive and engineering audiences. The role partners with Sales, Engineering, Delivery, Security, Finance, Portfolio, OEMs, carriers, and strategic technology partners to shape complex infrastructure modernization, migration, and transformation opportunities.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities Architecture and Technical Leadership Lead client discovery workshops to document business objectives, application and workload requirements, current-state constraints, security requirements, availability targets, recovery objectives, capacity needs, and growth assumptions.

Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures for enterprise datacenters, colocation environments, edge locations, and hybrid or multi-cloud platforms.

Design integrated solutions across compute, virtualization, containers, storage, backup and recovery, cloud services, network, load balancing, security, observability, automation, and disaster recovery.

Produce high-level and low-level designs, logical and physical diagrams, traffic flows, IP and segmentation strategies, bills of material, migration roadmaps, implementation assumptions, and architecture decision records.

Evaluate architecture alternatives and document technical tradeoffs related to resilience, performance, scalability, security, interoperability, lifecycle, operational supportability, cost, and risk.

Provide technical governance through design reviews, standards alignment, exception management, solution validation, and architecture approval checkpoints.

Datacenter and Cloud Architecture Architect modern datacenter platforms using technologies such as Cisco UCS, hyperconverged infrastructure, enterprise storage, VMware or comparable virtualization platforms, Kubernetes, backup, replication, and disaster-recovery solutions.

Design Azure, AWS, and hybrid-cloud architectures, including landing zones, identity integration, connectivity, segmentation, workload placement, resiliency, data protection, governance, observability, and cost optimization.

Lead datacenter consolidation, relocation, refresh, cloud migration, cloud repatriation, and application modernization planning, including dependency mapping and phased migration strategies.

Define infrastructure patterns for high availability, fault isolation, geographic redundancy, recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, capacity expansion, and business continuity.

Create interoperable architecture patterns that integrate on-premises, colocation, edge, SaaS, and public cloud environments.

Network Architecture and Cisco Technical Leadership Own network architecture for datacenter, campus, branch, WAN, internet edge, cloud connectivity, and hybrid-cloud environments.

Design Cisco-based architectures using relevant platforms such as Nexus, ACI, Catalyst, UCS, SD-WAN, Meraki, Identity Services Engine, and enterprise routing and switching technologies.

Demonstrate expert-level command of BGP, OSPF, route redistribution, multicast, QoS, MPLS, EVPN/VXLAN, IPv4/IPv6, high-availability protocols, network segmentation, and resilient connectivity patterns.

Design secure connectivity to Azure and AWS using private circuits, VPN, transit architectures, cloud-native routing, firewalls, load balancers, DNS, IP address management, and network security controls.

Define network standards, reference architectures, address plans, routing policies, segmentation models, firewall dependencies, wireless and WAN patterns, and performance or availability requirements.

Lead complex technical troubleshooting and risk analysis during architecture validation, proof-of-concept activity, migration planning, and critical design reviews.

Solution Development and Client Engagement Translate technical requirements into differentiated solution narratives, diagrams, proposals, executive presentations, technical responses, and statements of work.

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