Senior Lead Architect

Cohesity•Dallas, TX

About The Position

Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply, provided they have the indefinite right to work in the job location. Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design. Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry. We are looking for experienced architects who can develop detailed blueprints for successful customer deployments. Additionally, you’ll create repeatable blueprints that become the templates for all customer deployments. These will be used to develop our services practices, to enable our delivery teams, our partner teams, and our customers to deploy our secondary storage solutions applications. The ideal candidate is someone who has considerable experience architecting, documenting, deploying, and enabling others. These practices will utilize the architecture sold by our account teams to achieve customer-committed solutions. In addition to building these solutions, this role will also spend considerable time validating these procedures in the field and teaching partners and customers how to apply these in their environment. In this role, you will be working with engineering, systems engineers, tech marketing specialists, and customer support to build out professional services practices starting with the architectural blueprint that covers installation, integration, applications, migration, scripting (automation) to be used by delivery teams, partners and customers.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making.
10+ years of professional IT experience
Experience highly desirable in the following areas: Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix Xen App/Desktop) Linux/Unix
Proficiency in Oracle and SQL is required for this role, with a strong emphasis on practical, hands-on experience in both databases.
Data Protection, Data Security and Data Management
Storage (Isilon, NetApp & Pure)
Disaster Recovery/Business Continuance
Database Protection and Recovery
Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Scripting / Automation (Python, Ansible and ServiceNow)
Visio or equivalent application
Excellent communication and project-related skills are required.
Strong verbal communication/presentation skills
Strong written skills and the ability to create documentation.
The ability to teach others and make them successful.
Self-starter with excellent organization and time management skills
The ability to manage projects and to drive to a deadline.
Expected Travel: > 25%

Responsibilities

Deliver architecture and professional services to Cohesity customers
Build strategic relationships with key customers and Cohesity teams
Collaborate with Cohesity’s product solutions team to bridge the gap between technology capabilities and customer requirements
Engage directly with customers to understand their organization needs and identify how Cohesity’s product features can best support their objectives
Write and validate deployment architectures
Collaborate with the Cohesity Product Solutions team to bridge the gap between technology capabilities and customer requirements, ensuring smooth knowledge transfer to the solution delivery team
Engage directly with customers to understand their organizational needs and identify how Cohesity's product features can best support their objectives
Maintain and update JIRA by creating and managing user stories to ensure alignment across product, engineering, and delivery teams
Define technical architecture including sizing and performance that meet customer requirements
Engage with teams to ensure Deployment Designs are successfully deployed
Create knowledge base articles related to practices and architectures.
Develop best practices for the deployment designs that translate to project plans
Continually improve deliverables as we scale and release new features/products
Inspect deliverables for successes and improvements.
Work with others to develop post-deployment documentation (run books, pre-deployment templates, etc.)
Convert deployment designs and best practices into a training curriculum
Deliver hands-on training in small group formats
Conduct beta testing of procedures for new deployment designs in the field
Provide feedback to Implement Engineers, Systems Engineers, and engineering on ways to improve the overall experience