Network Technical Architect-Tallahassee FL

- Serve as the single point of contact for all engineering and design issues. - Direct all aspects of engineering and design concerns for the service. - Manage and oversee restoration of services and respond to State requests 24/7. - Participate in various contract workgroups. - Support business development by contributing to new opportunities and solutioning efforts. - Act as a subject matter expert in Managed Network Services. - Research and stay current on emerging technologies and products. - Architect workplace services solutions to meet client RFP/RFI requirements. - Ensure client solutions are designed to achieve expected functionality and quality. - Promote capabilities and offerings to internal groups, partners, and clients. - Analyze opportunities and gather inputs for capability development. - Facilitate collaboration among sales, pre-sales, and delivery teams. - Blend technology and business strategy to develop compelling solutions. - Build cost models and support benchmarking efforts. - Establish accurate costing and pricing techniques. - Maintain architecture standards and supporting processes. - Define and validate new features for solution development. - Enable automated sales and solutioning methodologies. - Coach and mentor solution architects and sales teams. - Minimum of five (5) years' experience leading an engineering team responsible for services similar in size and scope to this contract's services. - A Master's degree or higher in an engineering discipline (or seven (7) years' relevant work experience as a substitute). - Ten (10) years or more of engineering work experience. - 8+ years of experience in IT Outsourcing and Managed Services delivery, solutioning/pre-sales, sales, product management, or corporate leadership. - In-depth experience creating and managing infrastructure outsourcing solutions and cost models. - Extensive knowledge of network management, monitoring, and design solutions. - Experience performing complex technical analysis of software, hardware, and network systems. - Experience with managed network services and various network tools and hardware vendor products. - ITIL Foundation Certification. - Cisco Certifications (e.g., CCIE, CCNA, CCNP). - Experience with network technologies and vendor products such as Cisco, Juniper, Dell. - Experience creating and managing network infrastructure outsourcing solutions and cost models. - Network technical thought leadership and organizational agility. - Effective communication within a global team. - Experience selling enterprise-class networking solutions.