Solutions Architect

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing...

As a Solutions Architect, you will be an integral part of a talented team collaborating with our clients’ on their Digital Transformation. You play a meaningful role in building long-term business relationships within assigned enterprise accounts. This is a high-impact role working closely with the Sales team to identify and qualify opportunities and design solutions to address customer business challenges.

• Understanding the customer's high-level objectives and matching these to Verizon solutions in order to satisfy business and technical requirements.

• Being an integral part of a team to identify and qualify business opportunities and develop the strategy to resolve technical matters.

• Recommending integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices.

• Owning the technical relationship with Verizon customers, including managing product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of additional technical resources.

• Working directly with customers to create solutions and use cases that leverage Verizon product integrations that generate business value.

• Articulating the Verizon Enterprise vision on technologies and solutions towards the Client and positioning Verizon Enterprise as thought leader on key technological developments.

• Leading prioritization of Customer solution / technical requirements and championing resolution of solution / product gaps internally (also towards Product Groups).

What we’re looking for...

You'll need to have:

• A bachelor's degree.

• Experience in the tech industry, pre-sales, customer-facing, consulting or other relevant technical experience.

• Experience in traveling to client sites, conferences, and related events.

• Experience in internal communication and collaboration.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• MA/MS degree in engineering or computer science.

• Experience architecting and developing Security Solutions including SASE, DDoS, SOC, GRC and other security solution.

• Experience architecting and developing LAN/WAN or large infrastructure and network solutions for enterprise customers.

• Experience learning, understanding and working with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud/IT technology space.

• Experience running multiple projects or deals under tight timelines.

• Security, architecture, and industry certifications such as Certificate of CISSP, CompTIA Security+, Cisco Certified Design or Network Associate and AI Certification (AWS Certified AI Practitioner, Azure AI Engineer Associate, Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer).

• Experience implementing or designing two or more of the following: Data and IP Services Managed Operations; Security Services, IT Applications Management.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

37.5

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.