CDA Solutions Development Architect - KSA

Meet the Team

At Cisco, we develop technology platforms to drive our customers’ digital transformation. We need someone who understands technical solutions available on the market and the mega trends to harness; an individual who can orchestrate a sophisticated ecosystem of partners and deliver balanced business outcomes; someone who can drive technology innovation, with speed, impact and scale.

The CDA Technical Solutions Architect provides technology expertise at country level. The role collaborates with the Country Digitization Leader and work closely with Sales organization to drive CDA projects technical execution from the design to implementation. The architect is in charge for delivering the program in the country they are working in. They ensure consistency of the program to the plan agreed between CDA team and the country Leadership.

Your Impact

You make technology investments relevant to key business customers and users through joint workshops powered by Design Thinking & storyboarding tools. This allows you to capture the incremental budgets allocated to digital transformation by conveying a story and crafting a business case that all key customers understand. Further He / She Innovate, design, and drive a unique technology solution with Cisco's broader product portfolio and across multiple Technology and/or Business use cases. Also act as internal and external utilizing depth and breadth of technical expertise for sophisticated consultation, including providing deep Technical Expertise in one domain area or acts as "integrator" of different technology trends using breadth of knowledge to assess their impact on Cisco products and 3rd party solutions.

In addition, you act as the multi-domain architecture guide, exhibiting a high-level knowledge of Cisco's solutions & capabilities as well as maintaining insights on the major technology trend whilst partnering across teams to identify, analyse, and resolve design weaknesses and specify requirements. Contribute to defining solution/system architecture and design across multiple products or systems and staying ahead of technology and industry trends and acts as a technology advisor to our customers.You work well with different people from different functional areas and have excellent presentation and business skills, and are an excellent teammate and work well in a collaborative atmosphere.You can deliver both internal and customer presentations and documentation materials and can delivery business outcome for projects involved.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7 -10 years’ experience in ICT roles and up to date with new developing technologies and ICT trends
• Holder of Cisco Technology Certifications (CCNA and CCNP as a minimum. CCIE is a plus
• Expert in projects design and implementation with a proven track record in balancing multiple and large technical automation projects
• Experienced in large system integration design, implementation, and management
• Experience with providing technical leadership, and collaborating with systems engineers, design, development, and frameworks, analyzing alternatives, and communicating technical options to leads and clients
• Candidates must be based in KSA
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project management and leadership skills are important
• Current understanding of standard methodologies regarding system and technology with excellent knowledge and experience working with innovative technologies like cloud, AI, security and data management
• Expertise in software engineering and design architecture
• Excellent collaborator with business and technical colleagues, adept at building rapport
  
  

#WeAreCisco

#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.

Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!