# Solutions Designer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Toronto, Ontario
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Cisco is seeking a Solutions Designer based in the Toronto area to work with public sector customers in the city and around the province of Ontario.

As a Solutions Designer, you will combine technical expertise, consultative engagement, and business acumen to help customers address complex operational and technology challenges.

**Responsibilities**

- Strategic Consultative Partnership: Act as a trusted technical advisor to Canadian public sector customers, applying architecture, delivery, and implementation expertise to align solutions with their mission, business, and operational objectives.

- Technical Sales Leadership: Partner with Account Executives and cross-functional teams throughout the pre-sales cycle.

- Discovery and Solution Alignment: Lead comprehensive discovery sessions to uncover mission-critical challenges, technical requirements, constraints, and desired outcomes.

- Strategic Roadmap Development: Collaborate across Cisco, customer, and partner teams to develop, document, and present clear technology roadmaps.

- Technology Leadership and Advocacy: Maintain current knowledge of Cisco technologies, industry trends, and emerging capabilities.

- Complex Problem-Solving: Draw on Cisco's broad portfolio and partner ecosystem to architect secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally practical solutions.

- Customer Influence and Business Value: Translate complex technical considerations into clear recommendations, architectural trade-offs, and business value.

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Minimum of 5+ years of professional experience in systems architecture, solution design, systems engineering, technical consulting, delivery, or implementation within enterprise environments.

- Completion of at least 3 large-scale, end-to-end solution architectures, implementations, or delivery leadership projects within enterprise, critical infrastructure, public sector, or regulated environments.

- Documented technical competency in at least two of the following domains: networking, security, data centre, collaboration, or observability.

- Experience delivering a minimum of 5 technical presentations or architecture reviews to audiences including technical teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership.

- Experience producing written technical documentation, including customer requirements analyses, solution architecture diagrams, and actionable implementation roadmaps.

- A bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline, or a minimum of 14 years of combined education, formal certifications, technical training, and practical work experience.

- Current residency in the Toronto area, and availability to fulfill hybrid office, customer-site, and travel requirements.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Minimum of 5+ years of professional experience providing technical services, solution architecture, or sales engineering for Canadian Public Sector accounts.

- Possession of at least one active industry-recognized certification, such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE), Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

- Minimum of 3 years of hands-on configuration or architecture experience utilizing Cisco enterprise networking, security, or data centre portfolios.

- Completion of at least 1 project involving the design or implementation of AI infrastructure, AI workloads, or solutions across secure on-premises, hybrid, or cloud-connected environments.

- Minimum of 2 years of direct pre-sales or technical advocacy experience resulting in approved technical architectures or technology adoption strategies.

- Experience authoring at least 2 formal technology roadmaps or strategic architectural decision documents submitted to senior organizational stakeholders.

- Verified bilingual proficiency in English and French (reading, writing, and speaking).

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## Skills

### Required
- systems architecture
- solution design
- technical consulting
- networking
- security
- data centre
- collaboration
- observability
- French

### Nice to have
- Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- AI infrastructure

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