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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Splunk Platform Architect

Cisco Mumbai Hybrid senior full-time

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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

Nice to have

  • executive handling
  • consulting skills
  • storytelling
  • TM Forum frameworks
  • Open APIs

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