About this role
<p><span style="color:#0c0c85"><strong>About the role</strong></span><br>The Chief Architect (CA) will be a technical Cisco Network Subject Matter Expert (SME). You will be a recognized technical thought leader, capable of ‘big picture thinking’ on a solution area/category, with substantive depth on a few core technical/solution elements. You will bring technical credibility to accounts, present solutions to customers and bring Pre-Sales and go-to-market support to strategic accounts. </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Annual compensation:</strong> $185K USD</p> <p><br><span style="color:#0c0c85"><strong>What you'll be doing</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Partners with business leaders to deliver resources and services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values.</li> <li>Provide deep subject matter expertise and have the desire and ability to complete tactical work. </li> <li>Provide technical marketing, thought leadership and related support.</li> <li>Define and deliver the Go to Market (GTM) strategy by creating relevant design documentation and proposals </li> <li>Engage in key accounts, develop credibility and help build out technical solutions. </li> <li>Stay current on technical solutions in support of specific vendors</li> <li>Engage with assigned vendors. </li> <li>Coordinate with Customer Acquisition Engineer (CAE) from the various engineering practices to build out Statement of Work (SOW) around large scale/complex projects.</li> <li>Create in-depth technical design documentation and corresponding documents (Statement of Work (SOW), Level of Effort (LOE), and Bill of Materials (BOM).</li> <li>Provide training internally for new solutions advancement</li> <li>Engage and work closely with key vendors</li> <li>Embrace and support Computacenter’s mission and core values</li> </ul> <p><br><span style="color:#0c0c85"><strong>What you have</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Management Information Systems (MIS) or equivalent work experience.</li> <li>5+ years of presales solutioning experience (prior delivery experience is a plus)</li> <li>Expert level certifications such as CCIE-R/S, CCIE or JNCIE and professional level security certifications a plus. </li> <li>Experience designing & deploying complex architectures.</li> <li>Experience interacting with highly technical customer/vendor/peer engineers, engineering managers and C-Level staff.</li> <li>Experience leading whiteboarding & design sessions.</li> <li>Technical presales experience.</li> <li>Legally eligible to work in the United States.</li> <li>SME around discrete technologies (e.g. networks, systems, cloud, etc.).</li> <li>Passionate about Technology.</li> <li>Proficient presentation and Pre-Sales skills.</li> <li>Comfortable with public speaking (e.g. conferences, etc.).</li> <li>Comfortable leading design discussions</li> <li>Deep expertise in vendors technologies.</li> <li>In-depth understanding of service lifecycle. </li> <li>Thought Leader.</li> <li>Knowledge of Computacenter US Services Offering.</li> </ul> <p> </p><p><span style="color:#000080"><b>What you can expect</b></span></p> <p>There’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="color:#000080"><b>About us</b></span></p> <p>Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 20,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta. <a href="https://www.computacenter.com/us">www.computacenter.com/us</a></p>