# Splunk Platform Architect

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

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## Description

Our team acts as a trusted technical partner for customers, helping them navigate hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

As a Splunk Platform Architect, you will serve as a trusted technical and strategic advisor to service provider leaders across the region.

**Your Impact**

- Engage service provider executives and senior technical stakeholders to understand strategic priorities, operational challenges, and transformation goals.

- Design and communicate solution architectures spanning telemetry, observability, security data, network data, enterprise data platforms, analytics, and AI.

- Translate complex service provider challenges into practical platform strategies, solution architecture, and working prototypes.

- Demonstrate how data platforms such as Splunk can help organisations improve visibility, reduce operational complexity, accelerate incident response, and enable data-driven decisions.

- Work closely with account teams, sales specialists, solution engineers, customer success, professional services, partners, and product teams.

- Enable field teams and customers through workshops, executive briefings, architecture sessions, demonstrations, and industry engagements.

- Identify repeatable patterns and differentiated use cases across various domains including 5G, cloud, OSS/BSS, network automation, observability, cybersecurity, and customer experience.

- Work with service providers to identify, shape, and solution API monetisation services.

- Contribute to thought leadership through customer presentations, white papers, industry forums, and events.

**Success Measures:**

- Establishing trusted relationships with senior service provider stakeholders.

- Creating differentiated data and AI architecture strategies, designs, use cases, and prototypes.

- Influencing customer adoption of modern data platform capabilities.

- Enabling account teams and partners to have stronger, more strategic customer conversations.

- Building repeatable service provider use cases and architecture patterns.

**Minimum Qualifications**

- 12+ years of experience in the telecommunications or service provider industry.

- Deep experience in one or two service provider domains, combined with a sound working understanding of the others.

- The ability to communicate effectively with service provider executives, enterprise architects, network architects, NOC/SOC leaders, operations teams, and engineering organizations.

- Experience developing or influencing complex solution architectures in large-scale, multi-domain environments.

- A strong understanding of data platforms, data architecture, telemetry, observability, analytics, AI, or security data solutions.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Strong executive handling, consulting skills, storytelling ability, and confidence leading strategic customer conversations.

- A curious, collaborative, and commercially minded approach.

- Experience advising customers on platform adoption, operating models, data governance, or transformation roadmaps.

## Skills

### Required
- Splunk
- data architecture
- observability
- analytics
- AI
- telecommunications
- service provider

### Nice to have
- executive handling
- consulting skills
- storytelling
- TM Forum frameworks
- Open APIs

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