Sr Manager – Solution Engineering

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Technical Solutions Architect – Job Description

Location: Chennai, India

Experience: 15-20 years

Employment Type: Full-time

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior

Industry: Telecommunications, Software Development

Role Overview

As a Technical Solutions Architect, you will design and deploy end-to-end solutions across multivendor telecom ecosystems, ensuring seamless integration of technologies from vendors like Cisco, Nokia, Huawei, Juniper, and others. Your expertise in Tx, IP, SD-WAN, RAN, Core, and Cloud will drive revenue growth by delivering interoperable, vendor-agnostic solutions tailored to complex customer needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Multivendor Solution Design:
• Architect and defend solutions that integrate heterogeneous vendor platforms (e.g., routers, switches, SDN controllers, OSS/BSS).
• Ensure compatibility and performance across multivendor environments, addressing interoperability challenges.
• Lead PoCs (Proof of Concepts) to validate cross-vendor solutions.
• Stakeholder Collaboration:
• Partner with sales, engineering, and vendor teams to align solutions with customer requirements and industry standards.
• Serve as a bridge between customers, internal teams, and third-party vendors to resolve technical conflicts.
• RFP & Market Leadership:
• Craft competitive multivendor RFP responses for global customers, highlighting cost/performance trade-offs.
• Advise leadership on vendor selection strategies to optimize TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).
• Automation & Tools:
• Design vendor-agnostic automation frameworks for network management (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, custom APIs).
  

Desired Skills & Qualifications

• Multivendor Proficiency:
• Hands-on experience with ≥2 vendor stacks
• Knowledge of standardized protocols for multivendor interoperability.
• Technical Breadth:
• Expertise in ≥2 domains: IP/MPLS, SD-WAN, 5G RAN, Core (4G/5G), or Cloud-Native Telco.
• Soft Skills:
• Ability to negotiate with vendors and articulate trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Prepare presentations for RFP response and Defence