Technical Solutions Architect

Bench IT require an highly experienced Technical Solutions Architect to work within or customer’s Enterprise Networking solutions division. Acting as a senior technical authority, the role will act as the bridge between customer business challenges, sales opportunities and technical delivery. A role helping to shape creative, commercially viable and operationally achievable solutions for new and existing customers., * Acting as a trusted technical partner to customers by understanding their business challenges, goals, environments and operational requirements before shaping solutions.

• Proactively identifying, shaping and supporting new business opportunities and growth within existing accounts, working closely with Sales and Account Management teams.
• Developing creative, robust and commercially viable networking solution packages that meet customer needs and align with ONNEC’s delivery capability.
• Providing high-quality pre-sales technical support, including discovery, technical qualification, customer workshops, solution presentations, demonstrations, proof of concepts and support for tenders, RFIs and RFPs.
• Translating customer requirements into scalable networking solutions, including high-level designs, solution overviews, technical assumptions, risk considerations, bill of materials input and handover material for delivery teams.
• Collaborating with vendors, manufacturers and strategic partners to stay ahead of emerging technologies, product roadmaps, life cycle notices, licensing models and best practice design principles

• A strong technical background in enterprise networking, technical architecture, pre-sales, solutions consulting or a technical design authority role.
• Experience supporting customer discovery sessions, understanding business drivers and converting requirements into practical, commercially aware technical solutions.
• Strong understanding of both traditional and modern enterprise networking technologies, including WAN, LAN and data centre networking architectures, routing, switching, Firewalls, wireless networking, SD-WAN, cybersecurity, cloud networking, automation, telemetry, network assurance, and connectivity requirements for AI and high-performance workloads.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Awareness of security and Zero Trust networking architectures, including SASE, DDoS protection, GRC, SIEM, and hybrid/multi-cloud connectivity solutions. Familiarity with leading platforms and services such as Zscaler, AWS Direct Connect and Azure ExpressRoute or similar would be beneficial.
• Awareness of modern campus, LAN and data centre architectures, including controller-led networking, NAC, network automation, virtualisation, hyperconverged infrastructure, and the connectivity requirements supporting AI workloads, high-performance computing and hybrid cloud environments. Familiarity with leading platforms such as Aruba Central, Juniper Mist, Cisco ISE, Cisco Nexus, VMware ESXi or similar would be beneficial.
• Relevant professional or vendor accreditations are desirable, such as Cisco CCNP or CCIE, CISSP, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Network Engineer Associate, or equivalent evidence of continued professional development.