Senior Solutions Architect

C1; United States; On-site; USD 125,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Plan (35% employer match)

Medical Coverage

Paid Parental Leave (4 weeks at 100%)

Employee Assistance Plan

Voluntary Life Insurance

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

C1 is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to consult with enterprise clients and deliver customized infrastructure solutions that achieve measurable results. The ideal candidate will have 7–10 years of experience in data center technologies, including design and implementation, and possess exceptional communication and presentation skills.

This role requires collaboration with clients to identify their needs and develop tailored architectures that align with best practices and C1's capabilities.

Competitive compensation ranges from $125,000 to $190,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in data center infrastructure solutions.
• Experience in solution architecture and customer-facing roles.
• Ability to collaborate with technical teams and customers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical advisor for enterprise customers.
• Lead discovery sessions to understand client needs.
• Design data center architectures based on customer requirements.

Skills

Data center infrastructure

Consulting

Customer engagement

Presentation skills

Education

Relevant industry certifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Cisco UCS

VMware

Dell Technologies

HPE

NetApp

Job description

Senior Solutions Architect

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 enterprise customers to develop solid strategies with outcome‑based solutions that deliver measurable results through ROI and TCO models. The Senior Solutions Architect is responsible for assessing customer needs and tailoring customized architectures that have strategic value and are complex in nature to fit business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Serves as a technical subject matter expert for data center infrastructure, focusing on compute, storage, virtualization, data center networking, backup, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, converged infrastructure, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions.
• Acts 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.
• Leads customer discovery sessions to understand business goals, technical requirements, current‑state environments, operational challenges, and desired outcomes.
• Designs and positions data center architectures aligned to customer requirements, C1 capabilities, manufacturer technologies, and industry best practices.
• Provides 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.
• Develops solution architectures, diagrams, bills of material, technical recommendations, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and migration considerations.
• Collaborates with specialists across enterprise networking, security, cloud, collaboration, customer experience, managed services, and professional services to develop complete customer solutions.
• Supports solution assurance, delivery readiness, and services handoff activities to help ensure proposed architectures can be implemented successfully.
• Maintains technical competency in data center and related infrastructure technologies.

Qualifications

• 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.

Fit Statement

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 (UnitedHealthcare, Reference Based Pricing, Kaiser)
• RX Home Delivery
• HSA with Employer Contribution
• In‑vitro Fertility (treatment coverage)
• Dental
• Vision (2 plans: 12‑month and 24‑month frames allowance)
• FSA Plans (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Limited Purpose)
• Pre‑tax Commuter Plans
• Employer‑paid Life Insurance
• Employer‑paid Short + Term Disability
• Long Term Disability (Employer‑paid or optional Self‑paid)
• Paid Parental Leave (4 weeks at 100%)
• Employee Assistance Plan
• Voluntary Life Insurance for employee, spouse and child
• Voluntary Accidental Death for employee and spouse
• Legal/Identity Theft Plans
• TeleHealth
• Wellness via Omada Health
• Travel Assistance
• Business Travel Accident Coverage
• Medical for foreign travel coverage
• Employer‑paid Pet Telehealth
• Accident InsuranceCritical Illness Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• Volunteer Time Off
• 10 Holidays
• Summer Sizzle
• On Demand Pay (Daily Pay)

Work Environment

Ability to handle multiple priorities and demands in a fast‑paced environment. This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

Physical Environment

Physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

Other Duties/Changes

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all duties, responsibilities or activities that are required of a team member for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. At any point in time, the essential functions and primary duties associated with this position will be the principal, major or most important duties, responsibilities and activities that the employee is expected to perform as determined and directed by C1.

EEO Statement

C1 provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all team members and applicants for employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, and all team members will be treated with respect to their employment, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status. For further details, please view the EEO Policy Statement and the current version of the workplace poster.

Pay Range

$125,000 - $190,000. Base pay ranges are estimated. Actual base pay will be based on education, experience, location, certifications, skill set, and any other relevant factors.

E-Verify

Yes, E-Verify is required.