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Solutions Designer
@ Cisco
Toronto, Ontario
Responsibilities:
- Strategic Consultative Partnership: Act as a trusted technical advisor to Canadian public sector customers, applying architecture, delivery, and…
- Technical Sales Leadership: Partner with Account Executives and cross-functional teams throughout the pre-sales cycle. Serve as the technical lead for…
- Discovery and Solution Alignment: Lead comprehensive discovery sessions to uncover mission-critical challenges, technical requirements, constraints, and…
- Strategic Roadmap Development: Collaborate across Cisco, customer, and partner teams to develop, document, and present clear technology roadmaps that guide…
- Technology Leadership and Advocacy: Maintain current knowledge of Cisco technologies, industry trends, and emerging capabilities—including AI…
- Complex Problem-Solving: Draw on Cisco’s broad portfolio and partner ecosystem to architect secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally practical solutions…
Requirements summary:
- Cisco is building the critical infrastructure that powers the intelligent, secure, and high-performance networks required for AI-driven transformation.
- Discovery and Solution Alignment: Lead comprehensive discovery sessions to uncover mission-critical challenges, technical requirements, constraints, and desired outcomes.
- Translate these insights into architectures that address applicable regulatory, security, and operational requirements in Canadian Federal environments.
- Technology Leadership and Advocacy: Maintain current knowledge of Cisco technologies, industry trends, and emerging capabilities—including AI infrastructure—and communicate their relevance…
- MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 5+ years of professional experience in systems architecture, solution design, systems Designering, technical consulting, delivery, or implementation within enterprise…
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- 2026-11-07
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- 2026-11-08
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Cisco is the worldwide technology leader that is revolutionizing the way organizations connect and protect in the AI era. For more than 40 years, Cisco has securely connected the world. With its industry leading AI-powered solutions and services, Cisco enables its customers, partners and communities to unlock innovation, enhance productivity and strengthen digital resilience. With purpose at its core, Cisco remains committed to creating a more connected and inclusive future for all.
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Cisco is the worldwide technology leader that is revolutionizing the way organizations connect and protect in the AI era. For more than 40 years, Cisco has securely connected the world. With its industry leading AI-powered solutions and services, Cisco enables its customers, partners and communities to unlock innovation, enhance productivity and strengthen digital resilience. With purpose at its core, Cisco remains…
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| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
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| Organization type | Public Company |
| Year founded | 1984 |
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SOLUTIONS DESIGNER
MEET THE TEAM
Cisco’s vision is to change the way the world works, lives, plays, and learns. We helped build the Internet as it is known today. In the Agentic AI era, our vision is more relevant than ever. Cisco is building the critical infrastructure that powers the intelligent, secure, and high-performance networks required for AI-driven transformation. This includes connecting people, processes, data, and things through networks that form an essential foundation for an AI-powered future.
You will join a team of Cisco pre-sales Solutions Designers supporting the Ontario public sector, including government, utilities, education and healthcare. Our technically skilled and solutions-focused team members build trusted relationships, understand customer needs, and deliver innovative and effective outcomes.
Your ideas can have meaningful, real-world impact. You will work with a collaborative group of forward-thinking technical professionals who turn complex challenges into practical solutions for Canadian Federal customers.
YOUR IMPACT
Cisco is seeking a Solutions Designer based in the Toronto area to work with public sector customers in the city and around the province of Ontario.
As a Solutions Designer, you will combine technical expertise, consultative engagement, and business acumen to help customers address complex operational and technology challenges. Working closely with Account Executives, specialists, partners, and customers, you will shape secure and scalable solutions and develop technology roadmaps that support customer mission, business, and operational outcomes.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Strategic Consultative Partnership: Act as a trusted technical advisor to Canadian public sector customers, applying architecture, delivery, and implementation expertise to align solutions with their mission, business, and operational objectives.
- Technical Sales Leadership: Partner with Account Executives and cross-functional teams throughout the pre-sales cycle. Serve as the technical lead for discovery, solution design, customer presentations, proposal development, demonstrations, and high-impact proof-of-concept activities.
- Discovery and Solution Alignment: Lead comprehensive discovery sessions to uncover mission-critical challenges, technical requirements, constraints, and desired outcomes. Translate these insights into architectures that address applicable regulatory, security, and operational requirements in Canadian Federal environments.
- Strategic Roadmap Development: Collaborate across Cisco, customer, and partner teams to develop, document, and present clear technology roadmaps that guide customers from their current environments toward their desired future state.
- Technology Leadership and Advocacy: Maintain current knowledge of Cisco technologies, industry trends, and emerging capabilities—including AI infrastructure—and communicate their relevance and business value to technical teams, business stakeholders, and executive leaders.
- Complex Problem-Solving: Draw on Cisco’s broad portfolio and partner ecosystem to architect secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally practical solutions for complex customer environments.
- Customer Influence and Business Value: Translate complex technical considerations into clear recommendations, architectural trade-offs, and business value. Help stakeholders make informed technology decisions and build confidence in the proposed approach.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 5+ years of professional experience in systems architecture, solution design, systems Designering, 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 the following domains: networking, security, data centre, collaboration, or observability, evidenced by past project work or technical portfolios.
- Experience delivering a minimum of 5 technical presentations or architecture reviews to audiences including technical teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership.
- 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 Toronto area, and availability to fulfill hybrid office, customer-site, and travel requirements.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 5+ years of professional experience providing technical services, solution architecture, or sales engineering for Canadian Public Sector accounts, including Federal, Provincial, Municipal, Utilities, Higher Education, or Healthcare organizations.
- Possession of at least one active industry-recognized certification, such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE), Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
- Minimum of 3 years of hands-on configuration or architecture experience utilizing Cisco enterprise networking, security, or data centre portfolios, or equivalent enterprise-grade vendor technologies.
- Completion of at least 1 project involving the design or implementation of AI infrastructure, AI workloads, or solutions across secure on-premises, hybrid, or cloud-connected environments.
- Minimum of 2 years of direct pre-sales or technical advocacy experience resulting in approved technical architectures or technology adoption strategies.
- Experience authoring at least 2 formal technology roadmaps or strategic architectural decision documents submitted to senior organizational stakeholders.
- Verified bilingual proficiency in English and French (reading, writing, and speaking).
RENCONTREZ L’ÉQUIPE
La vision de Cisco est de changer la façon dont le monde travaille, vit, se divertit et apprend. Nous avons contribué à créer l’Internet tel que nous le connaissons aujourd’hui. À l’ère de l’IA agentique, notre vision est plus pertinente que jamais. Cisco construit l’infrastructure essentielle qui alimente les réseaux intelligents, sécurisés et à haute performance nécessaires à la transformation axée sur l’intelligence artificielle. Cela implique notamment de relier les personnes, les processus, les données et les objets au moyen de réseaux qui constituent un fondement essentiel pour un avenir propulsé par l’intelligence artificielle.
Vous rejoindrez une équipe de concepteurs de solutions avant-vente de Cisco qui soutiennent le secteur public de l’Ontario, y compris le gouvernement, les services publics, l’éducation et le secteur de la santé. Les membres de notre équipe, dotés de solides compétences techniques et axés sur les solutions, tissent des relations de confiance, comprennent les besoins des clients et obtiennent des résultats novateurs et efficaces.
Vos idées peuvent avoir des retombées concrètes et importantes. Vous travaillerez au sein d’une équipe collaborative de professionnels techniques avant-gardistes qui transforment des défis complexes en solutions pratiques pour les clients fédéraux canadiens.
VOTRE IMPACT
Cisco est à la recherche d’un concepteur de solutions basé dans la région de Toronto pour travailler avec des clients du secteur public dans la ville et dans la province de l’Ontario.
En tant que concepteur de solutions, vous allierez expertise technique, approche consultative et sens des affaires pour aider les clients à relever des défis opérationnels et technologiques complexes. En travaillant en étroite collaboration avec les responsables de comptes, les spécialistes, les partenaires et les clients, vous concevrez des solutions sécurisées et évolutives et établirez des feuilles de route technologiques qui appuient la mission des clients ainsi que leurs résultats d’affaires et opérationnels.
RESPONSABILITÉS
· Partenariat-conseil stratégique : Jouer le rôle de conseiller technique de confiance auprès des clients du secteur public canadien, en mettant à profit son expertise en matière d’architecture, de prestation de services et de mise en œuvre afin d’aligner les solutions sur leur mission et leurs objectifs d’affaires et opérationnels.
· Leadership en vente technique : Collaborer avec les responsables de comptes et les équipes interfonctionnelles tout au long du cycle d’avant-vente. Assurer le rôle de responsable technique pour les phases de découverte, la conception de solutions, les présentations aux clients, l’élaboration de propositions, les démonstrations et les activités de validation de principe à forte incidence.
· Découverte et harmonisation des solutions : Diriger des séances de découverte approfondies pour cerner les défis essentiels à la mission, les exigences techniques, les contraintes et les résultats souhaités. Traduire ces constats en architectures répondant aux exigences réglementaires, de sécurité et opérationnelles applicables dans les environnements fédéraux canadiens.
· Élaboration de feuilles de route stratégiques : Collaborer avec les équipes de Cisco, des clients et des partenaires afin d’élaborer, de documenter et de présenter des feuilles de route technologiques claires, destinées à guider les clients depuis leurs environnements actuels vers l’état futur souhaité.
· Leadership et promotion des technologies : Tenir à jour ses connaissances des technologies Cisco, des tendances du secteur et des capacités émergentes, y compris l’infrastructure d’IA, et communiquer leur pertinence et leur valeur d’affaires aux équipes techniques, aux intervenants des secteurs d’affaires et à la haute direction.
· Résolution de problèmes complexes : Tirer parti du vaste portefeuille et de l’écosystème de partenaires de Cisco afin de concevoir des solutions sécurisées, résilientes, évolutives et pratiques sur le plan opérationnel pour des environnements clients complexes.
· Influence auprès des clients et valeur d’affaires : Traduire les considérations techniques complexes en recommandations claires, en compromis architecturaux et en valeur d’affaires. Aider les parties prenantes à prendre des décisions technologiques éclairées et à renforcer la confiance dans l’approche proposée.
QUALIFICATIONS MINIMALES
· Au moins 5 ans d’expérience professionnelle en architecture de systèmes, en conception de solutions, en conception de systèmes, en conseil technique, en prestation de services ou en mise en œuvre dans des environnements d’entreprise.
· Avoir mené à bien au moins 3 projets de grande envergure portant sur la conception d’architectures de solutions de bout en bout, leur mise en œuvre ou la direction de leur prestation, dans des environnements d’entreprise, d’infrastructures critiques, du secteur public ou réglementés.
· Compétences techniques documentées dans au moins deux des domaines suivants : réseautique, sécurité, centre de données, collaboration ou observabilité, attestées par des projets antérieurs ou des portfolios techniques.
· Avoir donné au moins 5 présentations techniques ou examens d’architecture devant des publics comprenant des équipes techniques, des intervenants des secteurs d’affaires et des membres de la haute direction.
· Expérience de la rédaction de documentation technique, notamment d’analyses des besoins des clients, de schémas d’architecture de solutions et de feuilles de route de mise en œuvre concrètes.
· Un baccalauréat dans une discipline pertinente, ou au moins 14 ans d’études, de certifications officielles, de formation technique et d’expérience professionnelle combinées.
· Résident actuel dans la région de Toronto et disponibilité pour répondre aux exigences du bureau hybride, du site client et des déplacements.
QUALIFICATIONS RECHERCHÉES
· Au moins 5 ans d’expérience professionnelle dans la prestation de services techniques, l’architecture de solutions ou l’ingénierie en matière de vente pour des comptes du secteur public canadien, y compris des organismes fédéraux, provinciaux, municipaux, de services publics, d’enseignement supérieur et du secteur de la santé.
· Détenir au moins une certification en vigueur reconnue par le secteur, telle que Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE), Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) ou Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
· Au moins 3 ans d’expérience pratique en configuration ou en architecture des gammes Cisco pour entreprises en réseautique, en sécurité ou en centres de données, ou de technologies équivalentes de niveau entreprise d’autres fournisseurs.
· Avoir mené à bien au moins un projet portant sur la conception ou la mise en œuvre d’infrastructures d’IA, de charges de travail d’IA ou de solutions dans des environnements sécurisés, qu’ils soient sur place, hybrides ou connectés au nuage.
· Au moins 2 ans d’expérience en avant-vente directe ou en promotion technique, qui se sont traduits par l’approbation d’architectures techniques ou de stratégies d’adoption de technologies.
· Avoir rédigé au moins 2 feuilles de route technologiques officielles ou documents relatifs à des décisions stratégiques en matière d’architecture, présentés aux principaux décideurs de l’organisation.
· Maîtrise attestée de l’anglais et du français (compréhension de l’écrit, expression écrite et expression orale).
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
The starting salary range posted for this position is $201,900.00 to $255,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$212,200.00 - $308,300.00Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$202,400.00 - $296,900.00* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
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