Cisco Commerce Engineering Solution Architect 

United States, Georgia, Atlanta 

195834234

The application window is expected to close on Feburary 3, 2025.

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your Impact

They are responsible for helping shape the future technology direction of Engineering Productivity, assisting leadership establish strategic engineering platform and tooling roadmaps, driving priorities to meet objectives, and making scalable and sustainable architectural decisions for strategic themes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Capture and share engineering standards and best practices
• Create and foster collaborative relationships with engineering teams through chapters, guilds and internal communication platforms
• Identify and drive solutions to friction points and obstacles to engineering productivity
• Drive strategic engineering productivity roadmaps
• Identifies the balance between the immediate and long-term impact of technical direction and guides the organization to execution in this balance
• Be a technical, architectural, and career development mentor for other engineers
• Publish technical documentation using Atlassian Confluence suite for standards, best practices and tutorials
• Lead with an experience and design mindset to help create a best-in-class developer experience at Cisco IT
• Be a leader with vision and strategic problem solver for ~450 Cisco IT Engineering teams and communicate with intent
• Mentor other technical talents to build a strong talent pipeline
• Drive tough conversations and collaborate to bring best solutions forward for Cisco

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related quantitative field
• 15+ years of engineering experience in Java, Javascript, Python, SQL or other related languages
• Demonstrated end-to-end Solution Architecture across multiple domains
• Strong DevSecOps skills including hands on experience delivering CI/CD platforms, infrastructure as code, logging/monitoring/alerting solutions
• Hands on experience delivering solutions within public cloud hosting environments
• Critical thinker and problem solver

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence -- using simple communications that convey complex concepts in a compelling, concise, and creative way
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience delivering productivity outcomes to engineering teams in dynamic large scale digital organizations.
• Interact with IT partners and leadership to understand business requirements for enhancing the engineering experience across all phases of the software development lifecycle and collaborate with team members to explain new processes/tools
• Expertise in applying multi-layered technical expertise to understand and advise on architectural implications for next generation IT initiatives (such as code generation using AI based tools e.g. Github Copilot)
• Hands on practitioner experience with large scale Oracle DevOps, architecture, tools and processes