Pomeroy Technologies
Senior Solution Architect
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Hebron, Kentucky, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Active Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Enterprise Infrastructure (CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure) certification is required. Candidates must hold an active CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure certifica
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, telecommunications, or a related discipline, or equivalent directly relevant experience. A master’s degree is a plus.
- Ten or more years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure, including significant architecture responsibility for large datacenter, cloud, and network environments.
- Demonstrated success designing complex Cisco network solutions and hybrid infrastructure architectures for medium to large enterprise clients.
- Hands-on architectural depth across datacenter networking, compute, virtualization, storage, cloud connectivity, network security, availability, disaster recovery, and migration planning.
- Experience developing architecture deliverables including diagrams, bills of material, design documents, migration roadmaps, test strategies, implementation assumptions, and technical statements of wo
- Excellent written, presentation, facilitation, and executive communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
- Strong quantitative and financial skills, including solution estimation, lifecycle cost comparison, cloud-consumption analysis, and commercial risk identification.
- High proficiency with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio or equivalent architecture-diagramming tools.
Nice to have
- Current Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification is preferred. Google Cloud P
- Relevant HPE certifications are preferred, including HPE ASE – Edge-to-Cloud Architect, HPE ASE – Compute Architect and Integrator, HPE ASE – Storage Architect and Integrator, or corresponding HPE Mas
- Additional Cisco certifications or specializations in data center, enterprise design, ACI, SD-WAN, security, automation, or cloud connectivity are preferred in addition to the required active CCIE Ent
- Architecture or security credentials such as TOGAF, CISSP, CCSP, PCNSE, VMware VCP or VCAP, or Kubernetes certification.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and automation using Terraform, Ansible, Python, REST APIs, Git, CI/CD pipelines, or comparable tooling.
- Experience with Cisco ACI, Nexus, UCS, Catalyst Center, ISE, SD-WAN, Meraki, EVPN/VXLAN, and cloud network architectures.
- Experience designing infrastructure for regulated, highly available, geographically distributed, or operationally sensitive environments.
- Experience leading proofs of concept, technical workshops, migration assessments, architecture reviews, and design authority boards.
Full description
General Function
The Senior Datacenter, Cloud & Network Solution Architect is a client-facing technical leader responsible for designing secure, resilient, scalable, and financially viable infrastructure solutions. The role emphasizes enterprise datacenter architecture, hybrid and public cloud platforms, and Cisco-based network architecture rather than ongoing managed service operations.
Reporting directly to the Vice President of Solutions, this architect leads discovery, creates end-to-end target architectures, develops technical and commercial solution components, and communicates recommendations to executive and engineering audiences. The role partners with Sales, Engineering, Delivery, Security, Finance, Portfolio, OEMs, carriers, and strategic technology partners to shape complex infrastructure modernization, migration, and transformation opportunities.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Architecture and Technical Leadership
- Lead client discovery workshops to document business objectives, application and workload requirements, current-state constraints, security requirements, availability targets, recovery objectives, capacity needs, and growth assumptions.
- Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures for enterprise datacenters, colocation environments, edge locations, and hybrid or multi-cloud platforms.
- Design integrated solutions across compute, virtualization, containers, storage, backup and recovery, cloud services, network, load balancing, security, observability, automation, and disaster recovery.
- Produce high-level and low-level designs, logical and physical diagrams, traffic flows, IP and segmentation strategies, bills of material, migration roadmaps, implementation assumptions, and architecture decision records.
- Evaluate architecture alternatives and document technical tradeoffs related to resilience, performance, scalability, security, interoperability, lifecycle, operational supportability, cost, and risk.
- Provide technical governance through design reviews, standards alignment, exception management, solution validation, and architecture approval checkpoints.
Datacenter and Cloud Architecture
- Architect modern datacenter platforms using technologies such as Cisco UCS, hyperconverged infrastructure, enterprise storage, VMware or comparable virtualization platforms, Kubernetes, backup, replication, and disaster-recovery solutions.
- Design Azure, AWS, and hybrid-cloud architectures, including landing zones, identity integration, connectivity, segmentation, workload placement, resiliency, data protection, governance, observability, and cost optimization.
- Lead datacenter consolidation, relocation, refresh, cloud migration, cloud repatriation, and application modernization planning, including dependency mapping and phased migration strategies.