Distinguished Architect - Solutions Architect

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world.

Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

At Verizon, we do much more than sell technology. We deliver game-changing solutions that enhance the agility, productivity, and global reach of our customers. We power and empower how they live, work, and play. As an Enterprise Architect, you will build deep, consultative technical relationships with your customers, effectively becoming a trusted advisor. You will play a key role in driving customer outcomes that leverage the power of Verizon 5G and edge computing.

This is a high-impact role working closely with your sales partners, solutions architects, and customers to identify and qualify private network opportunities and design solutions that solve our customers’ most pressing business challenges.

Are you ready to enhance a best-in-class 5G enterprise architecture team that thrives on teamwork and collaboration? Can you see yourself delivering innovative technology and solutions that connect people worldwide and transform how communities live, work, and play? Are you ready to unleash the transformative possibilities of 5G? Welcome to Verizon – a company you can be proud to represent and be a part of.

• Design modern 5G connectivity solutions, including complex private core and edge compute as features and capabilities that help customers meet their expressed business outcomes.
• Develop scalable and repeatable network architectures to deliver high‑performing, highly reliable, and highly secure wireless services to our customers.
• Stay informed of regulatory and compliance requirements changes and adapt our reference architectures accordingly.
• Act as a trusted, unbiased advisor to customers, providing strategic insights to help achieve their business goals through our technology.
• Emphasize the value of licensed spectrum and scalability of neutral host networks to private networks, edge compute, and beyond.
• Review, validate, and approve network designs and provide feedback. Revise designs where applicable.
• Build and present design packages to customers in partnership with other Verizon stakeholders.
• Explore and explain how future solution enablement is possible through Verizon’s agile and modern network architecture.
• Help customers extract maximum value out of the network by advising and supporting multi‑carrier, device, and application onboarding.
• Partner with sales and specialists during offer discussions to ensure the value of Verizon’s network methodology is clear to customers.
• Work closely with network and service delivery teams to ensure the cohesive execution of a build.
• Be the voice of the customer and the market.

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Eight or more years of experience in the tech industry with experience in pre‑sales, customer‑facing consulting, or other relevant technical expertise.
• Experience in architecting and developing large cellular network solutions for small, medium, and large enterprises and/or government agencies.
• Experience with designing 4G/5G/CBRS wireless technologies, software‑defined networks, and cloud and edge computing architectures.
• Experience with designing distributed antenna systems (DAS) and small‑cell‑based In‑Building systems.
• Experience and knowledge about Wi‑Fi and a strong familiarity with the concept of private networking, neutral host networking, and hybrid (public/private) network architectures.
• Strong technical acumen in 5G network architecture and end‑to‑end solution discussions including supported devices and applications.
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