Network & Security Pre-Sales Solutions Architect - Systems Integrator

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Join a growing technology solutions provider delivering end-to-end IT services across cloud, infrastructure, networking and security. The organisation helps businesses maximise the value of modern technology through tailored solutions, expert services and ongoing support.

This opportunity is for a Network & Security Solutions Architect to establish and lead the organisation's growing networking and security practice. Working closely with the sales team, the role is focused on designing technical solutions, supporting complex pre-sales engagements, and helping mid-market customers translate business requirements into scalable, secure network architectures.

Apply today and take the next step in your career.

Responsibilities:

• Lead pre-sales engagements across Network & Security, from first whiteboard to final BOM
• Produce High-Level Designs (HLD) that are technically rigorous and commercially deliverable
• Own Cisco CCW and bill of materials production, you know your way around the tooling
• Work across LAN, WAN, Network Security, SD-WAN, and SASE (Zero Trust Networking)
• Be the technical authority in customer conversations, credible, clear, and trusted
• Shape the Networks & Security SA practice, vendor selection, methodology, and approach
• Collaborate with the existing Cloud and Infrastructure SA teams on cross-practice opportunities

Skills/Must Have:

• A genuine Solutions Architect, technically deep enough to design it, commercially smart enough to sell it
• Strong background across LAN, WAN, Network Security, SD-WAN, and SASE / Zero Trust
• Cisco-heavy background preferred, CCW experience a strong advantage
• Comfortable with HLD production and whiteboard sessions with customers at any level
• Experience working in a reseller, VAR, or systems integrator pre-sales environment
• Mid-market experience (200–3,000 users), you understand the commercial and technical dynamics of this space
• Confident communicator who can hold a room without overselling, customers trust your advice

Working Setup:

• Cisco (primary)
• HPE Aruba
• Fortinet
• Cato Networks
• Meraki
• Vendor agnostic, recommend what's right, not what you're told to push

Location & Working Pattern:

• Hybrid: 3 days per week in Watford

Benefits:

• Head of practice opportunity, build it your way
• Greenfield, you're not joining someone else's practice, you're building it
• Networks & Security is their fastest growing focus area, leadership buy-in and budget to match
• Vendor agnostic in practice, recommend what's right for the customer, not what you're told to push
• Profitable pipeline already exists, you're accelerating something that's already working
• Sitting alongside established Cloud and Infrastructure SA teams, support, collaboration, and credibility from day one

Salary:

• £70,000 – £80,000 base salary depending on experience
• £100,000 OTE — commission tied directly to networking business wins