Description
This role serves as a technical authority and thought leader in providing connected solutions and services across multiple technology domains, with a focus on architecting and integrating AI-driven solutions to achieve transformative customer solutions.
You will serve as a bridge between Cisco's technology and the customer's needs, designing and developing customized solutions aligned with the customer's technology roadmap to solve business challenges. You will deliver optimized outcomes by leveraging AI-powered insights and automated design tools, build customer architecture strategy, and provide strategic technical guidance to help customers align technology decisions with evolving business needs and maximize the value of Cisco's solutions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and influencing global, cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of complex, multi-architecture solutions aligned to business outcomes
- Shaping and leading strategic engagements with top-tier executives, bridging Cisco's technology with complex customer needs to drive business transformation
- Guiding customers through transformative decisions, applying in-depth understanding of evolving business models, lifecycles, and market dynamics
- Expanding and deepening customer relationships, playing a key role in strategic post-sales activities
- Leading strategic alignment of Cisco's portfolio to the customer's business objectives and expected outcomes
- Collaborating with senior-level engineers, business and technology leaders to deliver innovative, cross-architecture solutions
- Proactively integrating AI as a core component for future-proofing and competitive differentiation across the customer's enterprise
- Oversees a portfolio of high-impact, multi-domain projects, ensuring strategic alignment with overarching business goals
- Provides strategic guidance to senior executives, shaping technology strategies that drive business transformation, mitigate enterprise-level risks, and uncover additional opportunities
- Leads innovation and durable growth by embedding AI-driven automation and digitization into strategic customer engagements
- Demonstrates deep technical expertise across multiple architecture domains and delivery models, including advanced proficiency in designing, deploying, and optimizing AI/ML solutions, data platforms, and security frameworks
Minimum qualifications include:
- Bachelor's degree + 12 years of related experience, or Master's degree + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience
- Expert level certification (e.g., CCIE) or equivalent relevant certification expected