Senior Solutions Architect

mecs communications; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

mecs communications is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect - Enterprise Networking to join our dynamic team in London. You will act as a trusted technical advisor, guiding enterprise customers through architecture, pre-sales and solution design.

You will lead discovery workshops, develop high-level designs, respond to RFPs, and collaborate with vendors, partners and delivery teams to shape innovative networking solutions.

Qualifications

• Senior, customer-facing role combining technical architecture, pre-sales and solution design.
• Experience in enterprise WAN, LAN and data centre networking.
• Certifications like CCNP/CCIE desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer discovery, workshops and technical engagements
• Shape innovative, commercially viable networking solutions
• Support Sales and Account Management with new and existing opportunities
• Develop high-level designs, solution proposals and technical documentation
• Support RFPs, RFIs, tenders, presentations, demos and PoCs
• Work closely with vendors, partners and delivery teams

Skills

Customer-facing

Pre-sales

Solution design

Networking

Tools

Cisco

Aruba

Juniper

Zscaler

AWS

Azure

Nexus

Job description

Senior Solutions Architect - Networks

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Solutions Architect - Enterprise Networking to join a rapidly growing technology and organisation. This is a senior, customer-facing role combining technical architecture, pre-sales and solution design, acting as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead customer discovery, workshops and technical engagements
• Shape innovative, commercially viable networking solutions
• Support Sales and Account Management with new and existing opportunities
• Develop high-level designs, solution proposals and technical documentation
• Support RFPs, RFIs, tenders, presentations, demos and PoCs
• Work closely with vendors, partners and delivery teams

Looking for experience across:

• Enterprise WAN, LAN & Data Centre Networking
• Routing, Switching, Firewalls & Wireless
• SD-WAN, SASE, Zero Trust & Cyber Security
• Cloud Networking / Hybrid Cloud
• Network Automation, Assurance & Telemetry
• Modern campus and data centre architectures

Experience with technologies such as Cisco, Aruba, Juniper Mist, Zscaler, AWS, Azure, Cisco ISE/Nexus or similar would be highly beneficial.

Professional/vendor certifications such as CCNP/CCIE are desirable but not essential.