Solutions Engineer

Job Description

Meet the Team Join Cisco's India & SAARC Solutions Engineering team-a vibrant, high-impact group dedicated to designing and delivering next-generation digital resilience solutions across India's leading enterprises. Our team partners with top customers in Financial Services, Retail, Logistics, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Conglomerates, and Government, empowering organizations to build secure foundations for communication and application delivery in an ever-evolving digital landscape. Your Impact As a Technical Solutions Architect - Digital Resilience (SE III), you will play a pivotal role in enabling our customers' digital transformation journeys. You will act as a trusted advisor, collaborating with both account teams and customers to deliver advanced architectural guidance, recommend solutions, and drive business relevance for Cisco's broad portfolio. This is an exciting opportunity to lead strategic engagements, work with cutting-edge technologies, and shape the future of cybersecurity and observability for our clients. Serve as a dedicated technical advisor to a key customer, delivering in-depth technical information and design guidance. Provide advanced architectural leadership across the Cisco portfolio, including software and services, ensuring alignment with customer business goals. Collaborate with sales, engineering, and specialist teams to develop and propose innovative solutions. Lead strategic and complex opportunities, coordinating additional resources as needed to deliver optimal outcomes. Mentor, coach, and sponsor talent development, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration within the team. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent. 15+ years of field technical sales experience (e.g., Systems Engineer, Solutions Architect, Solutions Sales Specialist). Advanced technical expertise in Cyber Security, Assurance, Observability, and Security Operations. Demonstrated experience working with large Financial Services customers. Experience formulating and communicating solution visions to both technical and executive stakeholders. Preferred Qualifications CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) certification preferred. Proven relationship-building and stakeholder management skills. Demonstrated ability to act as a thought leader, mentor, and coach across teams. Strong business acumen and ability to align technical solutions with business strategy. Self-starter with a track record of driving innovation and achieving results with integrity. Why Cisco? At Cisco, we?re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era ? and beyond. We?ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you?ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.