Senior Enterprise Delivery Architect – Customer Solutions

Cisco Systems, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Customer Delivery Architect to define enterprise-scale architectures and lead multi-team initiatives with senior customer and Cisco stakeholders.

You will guide architecture strategy, roadmaps, and tradeoff analyses across diverse technologies to enable scalable solutions. You will partner with customer executives and Cisco teams to ensure architectural integrity, manage risks, and translate business priorities into actionable technical recommendations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 12 years of related experience or
• Master's plus 8 years of related experience or
• PhD plus 5 years of related experience or
• Equivalent relevant work experience

Responsibilities

• Define architectures and roadmaps for enterprise-scale environments across Cisco and third-party technologies.
• Steer large, high-impact initiatives from vision to execution, coordinating resources across multiple organizations.
• Evaluate cross-architecture challenges, assess tradeoffs, and remove barriers to improve customer outcomes.
• Translate business priorities into clear recommendations for executives and technology leaders.
• Assess and integrate AI, automation, and emerging technologies for measurable value.
• Influence Cisco strategy with customer insight and emerging needs input for internal teams.
• Build technical capability by developing architects and engineers and promoting reusable practices.
• Represent Cisco expertise to executives, industry audiences at events and forums.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

AI & automation awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Equivalent experience

Tools

CCIE certification

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Customer Delivery Architect to define enterprise-scale architectures and lead multi-team initiatives with senior customer and Cisco stakeholders.

You will guide architecture strategy, roadmaps, and tradeoff analyses across diverse technologies to enable scalable solutions. You will partner with customer executives and Cisco teams to ensure architectural integrity, manage risks, and translate business priorities into actionable technical recommendations.