Principal Architect - Sales Engineer

Verizon Verizon · Telecom · Chicago, IL +4

This role is for a Principal Architect - Sales Engineer at Verizon, focusing on crafting and developing end-to-end enterprise solutions for large businesses. The responsibilities include understanding customer needs, designing solutions, writing proposals, coordinating resources, and acting as a trusted business partner. The role requires a strong understanding of technology trends and business perspectives, with experience in selling, designing, or consulting on technical enterprise business solutions. While the company is in the AI space, this specific role is sales-focused and does not involve direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Understanding customer business challenges, goals, and environment.
  2. Designing the right package of solutions and services to meet the customer need.
  3. Writing proposals and supporting the contracting process—ensuring that all technical needs along with legal and compliance needs are all satisfied.
  4. Incorporating internal and third party suppliers as appropriate to meet the customer need.
  5. Ensuring the feasibility of the proposed solution with the delivery and product teams.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
  • Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
  • Sold, designed, or consulted on technical enterprise business solutions.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in engineering, computer science or other technical discipline.
  • Designed IT and/or managed telecommunications solutions. Ideally, from concept development through implementation.
  • Proposed, sold, and/or implemented large complex enterprise-wide technology solutions to Fortune 500 companies. Ideally, “big 5” consulting experience.
  • Project managed large scale complex enterprise-wide technology solutions.
  • Built business cases incorporating cost analysis and ROI.
  • Experience in the development and implementation of one or more of the following: data and IP services (VoIP, MPLS, VPN, Internet), managed network services (LAN, WAN, content delivery, WLAN, managed IP PBX), managed security solutions (firewall, proxy, VPN), managed mobility Solutions, data center outsourcing (cloud, application hosting, managed storage), call center technologies (ACD, IVR, customer portal, WFM), or IT applications management (SOA, web services, RTE).