Cisco seeks a senior enterprise architect to join the Advisory Service practice. This individual provides leadership to customers in driving IT strategy and requirements, while influencing the customer's business strategy through technology enablement.  Beginning with front-end strategy and planning, this individual will ensure the quality of the enterprise technical architecture through all phases of implementation. He or she will support engagement leaders by remaining focused on the big-picture technical implementation, the project purpose and client implications.

 

Your future with us

You are a top performing, outstanding individual. We can offer you exciting challenges and major career opportunities, both in Sweden and internationally and very competitive compensation.

 

Job description

Influences and advises the engagement team and Program Manager to craft and deliver business value justification, solution architecture integration, business process change, IT/Business governance, and organizational change management.

He or she will be responsible for researching and documenting customer requirements based on defined services and/or application as well as identifying the hardware and software features required to implement the architecture including the mapping of features to services and/or application definitions.

Creates conceptual and logical architectures for the solution. The solution might include infrastructure, including network, data, middleware, applications, security, and OSS.   He or she will be responsible for completing the technical design schedule, estimating the complexity and duration of technical tasks, and preparing risk assessment for program management.

Coordinates closely with an arbitrary number of parties from the customer, Cisco (across the company), partners and industry thought leaders in crafting and building the best technical and IT business architecture then leading its implementation.

The individual can gain a high level of influence with senior members of the customer's management and may act in the role of executive coach in that regard. Applies thought leadership and influence in improving the practices of the services organizations at Cisco.

 

Education

• A solid understanding of networking technologies and an understanding of architecture in a distributed environment

• Experience in IT consulting, Systems Integration, Professional Services and High Tech Industry roles

• Technical architecture knowledge: deep expertise in the following technology domains: network/infrastructure, data, applications / middleware, operations & security

• Expertise in technology trends and the relevance to business
• Expertise in IT business architecture areas including business process design and governance
• Skills in directing large/complex federated teams comprised of direct reports, matrixed reports and 3rd parties
• Large program implementation skills including risk management, project portfolio management and project management methodolog
• Experienced track record working with senior executives with Fortune 500 companies

 

Salary and benefits

Cisco is determined to attract interest from the highest-calibre individuals. The overall rewards structure comprises of a competitive package, which includes:

• Industry-leading salary & bonus
• Stock options
• Car allowance
• Pension contributions
• Life insurance
• Private medical insurance for employees & their families

 

Interested?

If you are a self motivated, high performing sales professional looking for an opportunity to work for a global company whose products and services, stature and incentive plans offer you the best opportunity to maximise your potential apply now.

 

Cisco is the world leader in networking and communication technologies. Since the beginning Cisco’s vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn. The company was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies.

Today, with more than 61,500 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as: IP Communication, Wireless LAN, Network Security, Storage Area Networking, Home Networking, Video Systems etc.