Senior Solutions Architect

About the role

C1 is the foremost, single-source provider of advanced communications and data technology for business. We connect our customers to digital solutions—from phone systems and hardware to computer networks, application development, managed solutions, and more. We are passionate about designing, implementing, managing, and supporting our customers' every need end-to-end, empowering them to focus on what they do best.

The Senior Solutions Architect is a highly motivated, skilled resource who embraces an entrepreneurial approach with a strong work ethic. This position primarily focuses on consulting with C1’s Enterprise Customers to develop solid strategies with Outcome-Based solutions that deliver measurable results through ROI and TCO models. The role is responsible for assessing customer needs and tailoring customized, complex architectures that align with business goals. The ideal candidate will be located in Southern California, Colorado, Alabama, or Texas.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert for Data Center infrastructure, with a primary focus on compute, storage, virtualization, data center networking, backup, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, converged infrastructure, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor throughout the pre-sales lifecycle, including discovery, qualification, solution positioning, architecture development, customer presentations, and RFI/RFP support across commercial and public sector opportunities.
• Lead customer discovery sessions to understand business goals, technical requirements, current-state environments, operational challenges, and desired outcomes.
• Design and position data center architectures aligned to customer requirements, C1 capabilities, manufacturer technologies, and industry best practices.
• Provide pre-sales technical consulting for data center modernization, compute refresh, virtualization, storage transformation, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, and infrastructure lifecycle planning opportunities.
• Develop solution architectures, diagrams, bills of material, technical recommendations, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and migration considerations.
• Collaborate with specialists across enterprise networking, security, cloud, collaboration, customer experience, managed services, and professional services to develop complete customer solutions.
• Support solution assurance, delivery readiness, and services handoff activities to ensure proposed architectures can be implemented successfully.
• Maintain technical competency in data center and related infrastructure technologies.

Requirements

• 7-10 years of experience designing, architecting, implementing, consulting on, or supporting data center infrastructure solutions.
• Meaningful experience with compute, storage, virtualization, backup, disaster recovery, data center networking, workload availability, infrastructure resiliency, or hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Experience with data center technologies such as Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, Cisco ACI, VMware, Dell Technologies, HPE, NetApp, Pure Storage, Nutanix, Veeam, Rubrik, Cohesity, Commvault, or similar platforms.
• Ability to assess current-state environments and translate findings into practical future-state architectures.
• Experience developing or contributing to solution designs, diagrams, bills of material, migration strategies, RFI/RFP responses, proposals, and SOW-related content.
• Experience in pre-sales engineering, solution architecture, consulting, or customer-facing technical roles within a VAR, systems integrator, MSP, consulting organization, or enterprise IT environment.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure dependencies across compute, storage, virtualization, networking, security, cloud, backup, disaster recovery, managed services, and business applications.
• Strong customer-facing, presentation, facilitation, whiteboarding, verbal communication, and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while managing multiple opportunities, priorities, and deliverables.
• Certifications or equivalent experience in data center, compute, storage, virtualization, backup, disaster recovery, infrastructure, or adjacent architecture domains preferred.

This role has a primary focus on Data Center infrastructure architecture. Adjacent experience in networking, security, cloud, backup, disaster recovery, managed services, or hybrid infrastructure is valuable.

Benefits

• 401(k) Plan (35% employer match per dollar up to 10% employee contribution)
• Medical Coverage (three platforms: UnitedHealthcare, Reference Based Pricing with member advocacy, and Kaiser)
• RX Home Delivery
• HSA with Employer Contribution
• In-vitro Fertility (treatment coverage)
• Dental
• Vision (two plans: 12-month and 24-month frames allowance)
• FSA Plans (Healthcare, Dependent Care, and Limited Purpose)
• Pre-tax Commuter Plans
• Employer-paid Life Insurance
• Employer-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (two plans: Employer-paid or optional Self-paid)
• Paid Parental Leave (4 weeks at 100%)
• Employee Assistance Plan
• Voluntary Life Insurance for team member, spouse, and child
• Voluntary Accidental Death for team member and spouse
• Legal/ID Theft Plans
• TeleHealth
• Wellness via Omada Health (healthy living solution)
• Travel Assistance
• Business Travel Accident Coverage
• Medical coverage for foreign travel
• Employer-paid Pet Telehealth
• Accident Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• Volunteer Time Off
• 10 Holidays
• Summer Sizzle
• On Demand Pay (Daily Pay)

Pay

Pay Range: $105,000 - $180,000 Base. Actual base pay will be based on education, experience, location, certifications, skill set, and other relevant factors. Incentive/variable pay opportunities are in addition to base pay.

Work Environment

• Ability to handle multiple priorities and demands in a fast-paced environment.
• Operates in a professional office environment.
• Routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.