Principal Architect - Sales Engineer
Verizon•St. Louis, MO
•Hybrid
About The Position
This role involves crafting solutions to help major businesses operate more efficiently and intelligently. The Principal Architect will collaborate with senior IT and business executives to identify and develop end-to-end enterprise solutions that enable customers to achieve their goals. Key responsibilities include supporting new business opportunities, architecting solutions, coordinating internal resources, and serving as a trusted business partner. The aim is to empower customers by demonstrating the possibilities for improving their business operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience
- Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training
- Sold, designed, or consulted on technical enterprise business solutions
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in engineering, computer science or other technical discipline
- Designed IT and/or managed telecommunications solutions, ideally from concept development through implementation
- Proposed, sold, and/or implemented large complex enterprise-wide technology solutions to Fortune 500 companies, ideally “big 5” consulting experience
- Project managed large scale complex enterprise-wide technology solutions
- Built business cases incorporating cost analysis and ROI
- Experience in the development and implementation of one or more of the following: data and IP services (VoIP, MPLS, VPN, Internet), managed network services (LAN, WAN, content delivery, WLAN, managed IP PBX), managed security solutions (firewall, proxy, VPN), managed mobility Solutions, data center outsourcing (cloud, application hosting, managed storage), call center technologies (ACD, IVR, customer portal, WFM), or IT applications management (SOA, web services, RTE)
Responsibilities
- Crafting solutions to help the biggest names in business work quicker and smarter
- Identifying and developing end to end enterprise solutions to enable customers to realize their goals
- Supporting the capture of new business opportunities
- Architecting solutions
- Coordinating internal resources
- Acting as a trusted business partner
- Enabling customers to see what’s possible to make their businesses run better, faster, and smarter
- Understanding customer business challenges, goals, and environment
- Designing the right package of solutions and services to meet the customer need
- Writing proposals and supporting the contracting process—ensuring that all technical needs along with legal and compliance needs are all satisfied
- Incorporating internal and third party suppliers as appropriate to meet the customer need
- Ensuring the feasibility of the proposed solution with the delivery and product teams
- Building and communicating the value proposition with client executives and key partners
Benefits
- Health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance
- Matched 401(k) savings plan
- Up to 8 company paid holidays per year
- Up to 6 personal days per year
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Tuition assistance
- Other incentives
- Award-winning total rewards package
- Opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc.
- Up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
Upload and Match Resume
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
