Solutions Designer – Canada Public Sector, Federal

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About the role

  • Cisco Solutions Engineer designing secure, scalable architectures for Canadian federal government customers. Leading pre-sales discovery, technical presentations, proposals, demonstrations, and technology roadmaps.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a trusted technical advisor to Canadian public sector customers
  • Partner with Account Executives and cross-functional teams throughout the pre-sales cycle
  • Lead discovery, solution design, customer presentations, proposal development, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept activities
  • Uncover mission-critical challenges, technical requirements, constraints, and desired outcomes
  • Translate customer insights into architectures addressing regulatory, security, and operational requirements
  • Develop, document, and present technology roadmaps
  • Maintain knowledge of Cisco technologies, industry trends, emerging capabilities, and AI infrastructure
  • Communicate technology relevance and business value to technical teams, business stakeholders, and executives
  • Architect secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally practical solutions using Cisco’s portfolio and partner ecosystem
  • Translate technical considerations into recommendations, architectural trade-offs, and business value
  • Help stakeholders make informed technology decisions and build confidence in proposed solutions

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5+ years of professional experience in systems architecture, solution design, systems engineering, technical consulting, delivery, or implementation within enterprise environments
  • Completion of at least 3 large-scale, end-to-end solution architectures, implementations, or delivery leadership projects within enterprise, critical infrastructure, public sector, or regulated environments
  • Documented technical competency in at least two of: networking, security, data centre, collaboration, or observability
  • Experience delivering a minimum of 5 technical presentations or architecture reviews
  • Experience producing written technical documentation, including customer requirements analyses, solution architecture diagrams, and actionable implementation roadmaps
  • A bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline, or a minimum of 14 years of combined education, formal certifications, technical training, and practical work experience
  • Current residency in the National Capital Region
  • Availability to fulfill hybrid office, customer-site, and travel requirements
  • Preferred: 4+ years serving Canadian Public Sector accounts
  • Preferred: active industry-recognized certification such as CCIE, CCNP, or CISSP
  • Preferred: 3+ years of Cisco enterprise networking, security, or data centre configuration or architecture experience
  • Preferred: experience with an AI infrastructure, AI workloads, or secure hybrid/cloud-connected solution project
  • Preferred: 2+ years of direct pre-sales or technical advocacy experience
  • Preferred: 2 formal technology roadmaps or strategic architectural decision documents
  • Preferred: active Government of Canada Level II (Secret) or Level III (Top Secret) security clearance
  • Preferred: verified bilingual proficiency in English and French

Benefits

  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage
  • Basic life insurance
  • Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
  • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
  • Paid employee birthday
  • Paid year-end holiday shutdown
  • 4 paid days off for personal wellness
  • 16 days of paid vacation for non-exempt employees
  • Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st
  • Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
  • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
  • Optional 10 paid volunteer days per year
  • Annual bonuses for non-sales roles
  • Performance-based incentive pay for sales-plan employees

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$201,900 - $255,200 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Cloud

Location requirements

HybridOttawaCanada

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