# Leader, Solutions Engineer, Splunk

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Boulder, Colorado
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $209,100.00 to $275,100.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Splunk, a Cisco Company, is seeking an outstanding Solutions Engineering Leader to lead a remote team of presales Solutions Engineers supporting the Commercial/Growth business across the Americas.

As the leader, you will shape how the organization operates, develops talent, and delivers business impact. You will serve as a trusted partner to Sales and cross-functional leaders, champion a customer-first culture, and continuously evolve the organization to meet the needs of a dynamic business.

**Your Impact**

- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing Solutions Engineering team across a range of experience levels.

- Build a culture of technical excellence, customer focus, accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning.

- Align Solutions Engineering priorities, resources, and execution with business strategy and sales objectives.

- Partner with Sales leadership to drive pipeline generation, opportunity execution, forecast accuracy, and overall business performance.

- Represent the SE organization in business reviews, forecast calls, and leadership forums.

- Establish effective operating rhythms across team meetings, 1:1s, performance management, talent reviews, and business planning.

- Use data and business metrics to identify trends, surface opportunities and risks, and improve team effectiveness and customer outcomes.

- Build scalable programs and processes that improve productivity, capability, and consistency across the organization.

- Champion the adoption of AI and emerging technologies to improve productivity, scale team capabilities, and transform how the organization operates.

- Develop talent through coaching, career planning, succession planning, and targeted development opportunities.

- Partner across Sales, Renewals, Customer Success, Product, Marketing, Support, and other functions to improve the customer experience and accelerate business outcomes.

- Lead through change by creating clarity, building alignment, and translating evolving business priorities into action.

- Stay current on Splunk and Cisco technologies, industry trends, and the evolving needs of our customers.

**Minimum Qualifications**

- 5+ years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, or a related presales technical role.

- 3+ years of people management experience leading Solutions Engineers or technical presales teams.

- AI-first mindset and enthusiasm for applying AI to improve productivity, decision-making, and organizational scale.

- Track record of building high-performing teams and developing talent across different career stages.

- Business and operational acumen, including experience with forecasting, pipeline management, execution, and performance management.

- Ability to build trusted partnerships with Sales and cross-functional leaders.

- Executive presence, with the ability to translate complex technical and business concepts into clear, actionable insights.

- Ability to lead through change and continuously improve how teams operate.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience leading Solutions Engineering teams within the software or technology industry.

- Experience supporting Commercial, SMB, or high-volume sales organizations.

- Understanding of data platforms, SIEM, observability, security operations, or related technologies; Splunk experience is a strong plus.

- Experience with pipeline generation, customer lifecycle management, and renewals.

- Track record of creating scalable, repeatable programs and operating models.

- Experience partnering across Customer Success, Product, Marketing, Support, Renewals, and other functions.

- Executive communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.

- Experience leading organizational change and driving adoption of new strategies, processes, and technologies.

- Familiarity with the Splunk and Cisco ecosystem.

- Technical knowledge spanning networking, servers, applications, virtualization, big data, and web technologies.

**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

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- Solutions Engineering
- Sales Engineering
- AI
- forecasting
- pipeline management
- performance management

### Nice to have
- Splunk
- SIEM
- observability
- security operations
- data platforms

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