# Forward Deployed Solutions Engineering Team Lead

**Company**: Cisco
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $320,600.00 - $407,100.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Cisco-Splunk Forward Deployed Solutions Engineering (FDSE) team is an elite, hands-on technical organization that embeds directly alongside strategic global customers across the Americas to lead enterprise AI transformation. You will build, scale, and lead a high-performing team of customer-embedded Forward Deployed Solution Engineers operating across advanced AI deployments, cloud architectures, and mission-critical enterprise systems.

You will accelerate customer business outcomes, compress time-to-value, and deliver tangible technical proof that drives durable account retention and customer expansion. You will also hire, develop, and mentor top-tier engineering talent while fostering a culture of technical rigor, continuous learning, customer obsession, and extreme ownership.

**Responsibilities**

- Build, scale, and lead a high-performing team of customer-embedded Forward Deployed Solution Engineers

- Accelerate customer business outcomes, compress time-to-value, and deliver tangible technical proof

- Hire, develop, and mentor top-tier engineering talent

- Partner with customer C-level technology executives, enterprise architects, and Cisco/Splunk product engineering leadership

**Requirements**

- Minimum 10 years of professional experience in customer-facing pre-sales engineering, post-sales architecture, or professional services

- Minimum 5 years of direct people management experience leading pre-sales, post-sales, or customer-embedded technical engineering teams

- Minimum 3 years of experience architecting, deploying, or managing artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), or enterprise data platform solutions

- Minimum 3 years of experience designing and deploying distributed cloud-native, hybrid, or event-driven system architectures

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience leading multi-level or matrixed technical organizations

- Minimum 3 years of experience with Generative and Agentic AI architectures, machine learning platforms, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and event-driven data platforms

- Minimum 5 years of experience architecting solutions utilizing Cisco networking/security portfolios, the Splunk Data Platform, or equivalent premier enterprise software suites

**Benefits**

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time)

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Cloud Architecture
- Distributed Systems
- Computer Science

### Nice to have
- Generative AI
- Agentic AI
- Kubernetes
- Event-driven Data Platforms
- Cisco Networking/Security Portfolios
- Splunk Data Platform

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