Principal Architect

OverviewPrincipal Architect - Service Provider at Cisco.
This role leads the strategic direction for Cisco's CX Service Provider solutions, aligned with Cisco goals and customer needs.What You'll DoStrategic Leadership: Lead the strategic direction of Cisco's CX Service Provider solutions, ensuring alignment with Cisco's goals and customer needs.Solution Design and Integration: Design and integrate CX solutions addressing end-to-end service provider initiatives, including a mix of hardware, software, and services.
Requires deep knowledge of SP hardware/software technologies, AI and cloud-related technologies, SP business trends (including managed services), service delivery (Managed Services and software lifecycle practices), SP IP Transport technologies, SP Automation technologies and solutions.Cross-Functional Work: Collaborate across CX and Cisco functions, leveraging multiple technologies and diverse teams to create innovative solutions.Advisory Role: Proactively identify and solve complex architectural challenges for service provider customers with deep understanding of SP architectures, frameworks, and industry solutions.Technical Expertise: Translate complex requirements into secure, reliable, and serviceable architectures.Engineering Excellence: Ensure CX engineering practices meet high standards of quality, repeatability, and scalability.Communication and Relationship Building: Build lasting relationships within the company, with customers and partners as a trusted advisor.Industry Presence: Maintain a visible industry presence through patents, standards contributions, blogs, whitepapers, speaking engagements, etc.Mentorship and Learning: Mentor and support professional development, participate in knowledge sharing within role communities.Problem-Solving and Decision-Making: Drive problem-solving, resolve open issues, engage senior leadership, and align stakeholders.Automation & Orchestration: Provide technology leadership on SP network services automation and orchestration, aligning architecture/design with CX automation/orchestration offerings.Innovation: Incubate/innovate on new capabilities and core assets/IP with CX Product Management and Delivery teams.Competitive Leadership: Understand competitive landscape and communicate insights to delivery leadership, outlining portfolio adjustments as needed.Observability and QoE: Provide technical leadership around SP observability platforms and related innovations.Who You'll Work WithWork in close collaboration with the in-region Cisco Customer Experience (CX) team to help customers deploy and manage Service Provider solutions, focusing on delivering the highest quality customer experience.Who You AreBE/B.Tech/ME/M.Tech/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Systems with 15+ years of relevant Service Provider experience.Deep technologist with expertise in SP technologies.Hands-on experience with SP technologies in Transport, Core, Mobility, etc.Active technology enthusiast with public/industry forum presence on technology vision and roadmap.Strong customer consulting abilities for pre-sales and delivery of sophisticated service orchestration solutions.Experience delivering large, sophisticated solutions with Agile and CI/CD methodologies.Experience in automation of Device/Service Provisioning, Cross-Domain Orchestration, Closed-Loop Automation, and Telemetry is a plus.Contribution to Open Source projects and patterns.Ability to conduct Well-Architected Reviews of SP Networks focusing on resiliency, sustainability, and efficiency.Why Cisco#WeAreCisco: we value individuality and teamwork to power an inclusive future.
We are a software, security, and hardware company focused on digital transformation and innovation.Job DetailsEmployment type: Full-timeJob function: Design, ITIndustries: Computer Hardware Manufacturing, Software Development, and Computer NetworkingLocation notes and job postings appear per region and team requirements.
This summary reflects the Principal Architect - Service Provider role at Cisco.
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