Senior Solutions Architect — Enterprise Networking & Security

Sword Group; Bellshill; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Personalised Career Development

Flexible working

Pension scheme

Private health

Job summary

Sword Group is seeking an experienced solution architect to provide technical leadership across opportunities from discovery to delivery. You will design secure, scalable network and security solutions with a focus on Cisco and Palo Alto technologies, SD-WAN, SASE/SSE and Zero Trust.

Collaboration with Sales, Delivery and Partners is essential to deliver commercially viable proposals. The role emphasizes holistic design across network, security, cloud and infrastructure, plus active

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise networking architecture.
• Strong Cisco and Palo Alto knowledge; SASE, SSE and Zero Trust.
• Ability to design holistically across network, security, cloud and infrastructure.
• Experience in producing high-level designs, BoMs and technical proposals.
• Excellent customer-facing consulting and discovery skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and solution architecture across opportunities from discovery to delivery.
• Lead customer workshops to translate business and technical requirements into architectures.
• Design secure, scalable Network and Security solutions (Cisco and Palo Alto focus).
• Develop solutions across Enterprise Networking, SD-WAN, SDA, SASE/SSE, LAN, Wireless, NAC and Cyber Security.
• Produce and review high-level designs, statements of work, bills of materials, risks and proposals.
• Provide input into bids, tenders, customer presentations and vendor engagements.
• Collaborate with Sales, Pre-Sales, Delivery, Managed Services and partners.
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies including AI and its applications in networking and security.
• Understand dependencies between Network, Security, Cloud and Infrastructure to design holistic solutions.
• Experience developing HLDs, technical proposals and BoMs for senior stakeholders.

Skills

Enterprise networking architecture

Cisco technologies

Palo Alto Networks

Zero Trust

Security architecture

Design of high-level designs

Tools

Prisma Access/SASE

ISE / Catalyst management

Job description

Sword Group is seeking an experienced solution architect to provide technical leadership across opportunities from discovery to delivery. You will design secure, scalable network and security solutions with a focus on Cisco and Palo Alto technologies, SD-WAN, SASE/SSE and Zero Trust.

Collaboration with Sales, Delivery and Partners is essential to deliver commercially viable proposals. The role emphasizes holistic design across network, security, cloud and infrastructure, plus active