Senior Network Solution Architect – Pre-Sales, Remote

Singtel; Sydney; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Office campus with amenities

Parental leave up to 16 weeks

Employee discounts

24/7 wellbeing counselling

Job summary

Optus is seeking a Senior Network Solution Architect to play a pivotal pre-sales role, partnering with enterprise customers, sales teams and technical specialists to design innovative networking and security solutions that drive revenue, elevate outcomes, and position Optus as a trusted technology partner.

You will lead customer workshops, present technical designs, translate requirements into compelling solutions, and collaborate with delivery, vendors and product teams to ensure governance,

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in network solution architecture, technical design, or pre-sales consulting within telecommunications, managed services, or enterprise ICT environments.
• Deep expertise across enterprise networking and network security technologies, supported by industry certifications such as Cisco (CCNP/CCIE), HPE Aruba, Palo Alto, Zscaler, CISSP, CISM, or similar.
• Strong customer-facing consulting skills with the ability to engage, influence, and build credibility with senior business and technical stakeholders.
• Proven experience leading technical workshops, developing solution architectures, and translating complex customer requirements into commercially viable outcomes.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and documentation skills, with the ability to create solution overviews, business cases, and executive-level presentations.
• A collaborative and strategic mindset with experience navigating matrix organisations, managing competing priorities, and supporting complex sales engagements from opportunity to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop enterprise network and security solutions that align with customer business objectives, technical requirements, and commercial outcomes.
• Lead customer workshops, technical presentations, and discovery sessions to uncover requirements and translate them into compelling solution designs.
• Partner with sales teams to shape opportunities, develop customer value propositions, and contribute to winning account strategies and business cases.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, delivery teams, vendors, and technology partners to ensure seamless solution design, governance, and handover for implementation.
• Maintain deep expertise in networking, network security, and emerging technologies while providing technical guidance and enablement across the broader business.
• Contribute to innovation by identifying new solution opportunities, supporting product development initiatives, and creating tools, templates, and best practices that improve team productivity.
• Develop training material and content around secure networking. Enable and training general presales, and provide SME support.

Skills

Network architecture

Pre-sales consulting

Stakeholder management

Workshops & presentations

Technical storytelling

Solution design

Education

Cisco CCNP/CCIE

HPE Aruba

Palo Alto

Zscaler

CISSP

CISM

Tools

Cisco CCNP/CCIE

HPE Aruba

Palo Alto

Zscaler

CISSP

CISM

Job description

Optus is seeking a Senior Network Solution Architect to play a pivotal pre-sales role, partnering with enterprise customers, sales teams and technical specialists to design innovative networking and security solutions that drive revenue, elevate outcomes, and position Optus as a trusted technology partner.

You will lead customer workshops, present technical designs, translate requirements into compelling solutions, and collaborate with delivery, vendors and product teams to ensure governance,