Overview
Meet the Team We are looking for an energetic and experienced Solutions Engineering Manager who will be a key part of the UKI Solutions Engineering Leadership Team. You will be responsible for leading a group of Cloud and AI Solution Engineers (SE) specialists who cover our UK & Ireland Enterprise customers. You will also be someone skilled in developing and nurturing technical stakeholder relationships, well-practiced in quickly establishing credibility given your own subject matter expertise and your executive presence and communication skills and as such you will be a key contributor to Cisco’s continued growth and Go to Market in within region.
Your Impact
The Solution Engineering Manager will be responsible for setting the technical vision and strategy for the accounts, identifying ways to accurately position Cisco's CAI products and solutions to meet our customer demands and ambitions. Your role will be pivotal to support our customer journey to AI and Digital sovereignty transformation. You will facilitate partnerships between the customer and internal organizations to address those new challenges. This role is ideal for someone who has a high EQ and passion to solve customer demands and scale that team in terms of its growth and abilities in the ever-changing world of technology.
Minimum Qualifications
* 5 years + within a technical sales leadership role in the UKI enterprise market. Define and drive specific cultures to attract, retain and develop the best solution engineering talent in the industry.
* Able to demonstrate technical vision and strategy for customer CTO level priorities.
* Demonstrable understanding of how complex, tiered technology partner networks operate, add value, deliver against business objectives
* Proven experience of working in a broad technology organization and demonstrate understanding of a wide range of technologies, their integrations and value delivery.
* Prior experience as expert in the Datacenter technology domain: DC Networking, Virtualization/Kubernetes, Infra Security
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with at least one or more of the following AI infrastructure, Automation/Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Technologies, Storage, IP & Optical Transport
* Ability to present topics in a clear and concise manner to many levels of business leaders and audience sizes. Including Cisco’s corporate strategy, products, architectures and go to market strategy.
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
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