Associate Network Solutions Architect

About the role

Solutions Architects play a critical role in bridging customer ambition with actionable technology outcomes, combining technical insight, commercial awareness, and consultative influence to shape value-led solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Account Managers and Solutions Architects to assess inbound and outbound opportunities.
• Understand customer objectives, constraints, and success metrics to determine solution fit and viability.
• Contribute to the design of scalable, secure, and supportable solutions within your technology domain, collaborating with peers to ensure alignment with delivery capabilities and customer expectations.
• Create high-quality presales artefacts—including solution proposals, high-level designs (HLDs), and cost models—for low to mid-complexity opportunities within your domain, under guidance where required.
• Facilitate or participate in customer discovery workshops, whiteboarding engagements, and technology briefings to shape thinking and uncover deeper requirements.
• Work closely with peers across Solutions, Delivery, and Services teams to ensure solutions are deliverable, repeatable, and aligned with Levata’s go-to-market strategy.
• Stay current with relevant technologies, market trends, and partner solutions.
• Maintain and grow technical certifications and contribute to shared team knowledge through documentation, templates, or tooling.
• Develop reusable offerings, reference architectures, and accelerators that reduce sales cycle time, lower delivery risk, and improve customer experience.
• Support customer decision-making by aligning proposed solutions to business needs and helping articulate near- and mid-term value.
• Support post-sale reviews or account growth conversations where required.
• Build and maintain relationships with strategic partners and vendors to remain informed on roadmaps, competitive positioning, and joint propositions.

Qualifications & Skills

• Foundational knowledge of networking concepts (wireless, basic infrastructure, and network security fundamentals).
• 1-3 years of experience in IT, networking, technical consultancy, or pre-sales roles within a technology provider, systems integrator, or reseller environment.
• Familiarity with partner ecosystems and commercial programs.
• Exposure to both professional and managed services engagements.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and business stakeholders with guidance where needed.
• Entry-level or foundational vendor or industry certifications (or willingness to pursue) relevant to your solution domain as listed below.
• Technical Certifications: Cisco CCNA or ACMA/ACMP, HPE Aruba ACMA/ACMP, Extreme Networks Associate-level certification, Juniper JNCIS, Ruckus entry-level or Associate/Specialist-level certification, exposure to or interest in learning technologies such as Ubiquiti, Palo Alto, and/or Fortinet.