Principal Architect - Solutions Architect

About the role

You’ll be using your technical expertise and sales skills to help develop complex wireless and networking solutions for our customers. You’ll provide customer training and advisement, conducting needs analyses, developing appropriate solutions, and executing on new solutions. You’ll present the roadmap and vision for these solutions to leadership. We are constantly innovating to bring the best cutting-edge technologies to our customers to enable them to work faster and smarter.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own proposals and long-term customer strategies.
• Translate customer business issues/opportunities and design complex solutions.
• Present proposed architectures and business outcomes to leadership.
• Provide security development and integration across platforms.
• Manage teams cross-organizationally to develop and implement customer solutions.
• Design modern global private 5G connectivity solutions including complex private core and edge compute as features and capabilities that help customers meet their expressed business outcomes.
• Manage highly complex neutral host and private network designs across Enterprise & Public Sector.
• Present 5G connectivity solutions and strategies to senior management and stakeholders virtually and in person.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Four or more years of experience in architecture design and implementation.
• Direct experience working with wireless network integrators and RAN OEMs like Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung, Celona, Solid, and Airspan.
• Experience project managing complex solutions through implementation.
• Knowledge of 5G and LTE, IoT.
• IP Data Networking experience (routing, switching, load balancing, high availability, etc).

Preferred Qualifications

• A degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering.
• Two or more years of experience developing and implementing business strategies.
• Two or more years of experience incorporating design thinking into problem solving.
• Software development experience using Shell, Expect, Perl, Python, or JavaScript.
• Certifications: Award Solutions – RR Solutions coursework, CCIE, CISSP, CCENT, CompTIA Network+, Wireless Recognized Certifications, OEM (e.g., Cisco, CradlePoint), CompTIA Security+, Cloud Provider.
• Experience with Software Defined Networking and Virtual Network Services.
• Technical expertise with major technology companies such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Riverbed, or Fortinet.

Schedule

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Pay

The annual salary range for this role based on a full-time schedule is:

• $124,500.00 - $239,000.00 (general locations)
• $137,000.00 - $239,000.00 (Colorado, Illinois, New York locations)

This is an incentive-based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, compensation will be adjusted to reflect hours worked.

Benefits

• Health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and group home & auto insurance.
• Matched 401(k) savings plan.
• Up to 8 company-paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year.
• Paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition assistance.
• Other incentives, including premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, and allowances.
• Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service.