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# Solutions Development Architect

- **Company:** Cisco
- **Location:** Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Cisco
- **Published:** September 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5881168953

## About the Role

* Consultative selling and delivery experience building solutions and aligning them to the customer's desired business outcomes.
 * Knowledge of Professional Services business with Delivery background working with strategic customers.
 * Excellent executive level communication and presentation skills to simplify conveying the value of underlying sophisticated solutions
 * Direct customer pre-sales experience or previous business development experience
 * CCNA certification or equivalent, or relevant industry experience
 * Fluent in German and English (both written and verbal), * Understanding of automation (Infra-/network as Code approach) and cloud market (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Container Orchestration and Management)
 * Good understanding of Security market, Security frameworks / standards and experience in selling security solutions
 * ONEx Technology Blue Belt or similar technical certification or equivalent skills

## Description

In this role you will have the opportunity to collaborate across multiple functions, including working with Sales team, CX CTO and our Deal Acceleration Team to progress opportunities to closure with minimal friction. You will work with internal/external partners, including ecosystem partners, to help ensure comprehensive and scalable technology implementations can be realized.

Your Impact

 * Help to identify growth opportunities, aligning activities with Service Sales teams for Cisco's Lifecycle selling and transformational opportunities
 * Influence the shaping of future solutions by contributing to the architecture used across multiple products or systems
 * Co-lead the pre-sales solution architecture and introduce the overall technical vision for a particular solution.
 * Lead CX RFP/RFIs for your selected accounts
 * Build, evaluate and implement plans and design proposals for high impact solutions; consider key factors such as their long-term effectiveness (service delivery and cost), practicality, technical limitations and criticality
 * Demonstrate a cross-architecture approach in solutions development with mid to high level technical expertise to create journey maps and multi-year roadmaps
 * Focus on pre-sales architecture activities and ensuring a follow-thru with post-sales architects; Become the bridge to ensure the scoped solution is delivered


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