Sales Engineering Architect

At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Exciting opportunities exist within the Verizon Global Presales Engineering organization. As a Solutions Architect, you will be an integral part of a talented team collaborating with our clients’ on their Digital Transformation. You play a meaningful role in building long-term business relationships within assigned enterprise accounts. This is a high-impact role working closely with the Sales team and customers to identify and qualify opportunities and design solutions to address customer business challenges.No-one can match our capability to design, build and operate integrated global networks, cutting-edge information systems and mobile technologies. Are you ready to improve a best in class enterprise sales team that thrives on teamwork and collaboration? Can you see yourself delivering technology and innovative solutions that connect people the world over and transform the way communities live, work and play? Competitive salaries are enhanced by plenty of incentive awards for sales performance.You will seek to build deep, consultative technical relationships with your customers, effectively becoming a trusted adviser. An SA is ideally positioned to understand the customer's high-level objectives and match these to Verizon solutions in order to satisfy business and technical requirements.Recommending integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices.Owning the technical relationship with Verizon customers, including managing product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of additional technical resources.Working directly with customers to create solutions and use cases that leverage Verizon product integrations that generate business value.Leading prioritization of Customer solution / technical requirements and champions resolution of solution / product gaps internally (also towards Product Groups).Developing individual skill set and expand product knowledge to maximize value and to deliver quality services to our clients.Traveling to Client sites, conferences, and other related events as required.The Enhanced Collaboration Principal Sales Engineer role will be aligned to the Associate Director - Sales Engineer Role in the Central portion of the United States. This Sales Engineer role will have responsibility in 2026 for $17.7M in wireless revenue and $2.1M in Bookings as well as significant growth in FWA, IoT, PWN/NHN, and WLN transformation. This Principal Sales Engineer is customer facing and is responsible for driving bookings, revenue and activations across our WLN and WLS portfolio including building/owning key customer relationships across key customers/opportunities. The metrics that this Principal Sales Engineer will be responsible for are: WLN Bookings, CS Revenue, Data Gross Add Value (FWA,MBB, IoT and One Talk Desk phones). Participation in sales stages 0-3 are critical, with support for later stages as well. Investment in early stages of the sales cycle to build solutions funnel, emphasizing use cases, business impact on designs to increase customer revenue, decrease customer cost, improve productivity, and reduce risk.Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.Four or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.Four or more years of experience in the tech industry, pre-sales, customer-facing, consulting or other relevant technical experience.Experience architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable, distributed systems.Experience architecting and developing LAN/WAN or large infrastructure and network solutions for enterprise customers.Experience with networking concepts including: software defined networking, routing, VPNs, load balancers, and firewalls.Knowledge of data and information security - especially as it relates to issues within businesses.Software Defined Networking (SDN), IT infrastructure and systems security, cloud or network systems management, and business continuity.Willingness to travel.MA/MS degree in engineering or computer science.Ability to quickly learn, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies and solutions in the cloud/IT technology space.Experience running multiple projects or deals under tight timelines.Security, architecture, and industry certifications such as AWS Solution Architect, Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), CompTIA Security+, Cisco Certified Design or Network Associate, ITIL Foundations, or similar.Data and IP Services Managed Operations; Call Center Technologies and or IT Applications Management.Where you’ll be workingIn this mobile role, you'll primarily work from customer or field location(s), with occasional visits to a Verizon location for in-person training and meetings.We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.Benefits and CompensationOur benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.The annual salary range for the location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $105,000.00 - $202,000.00.The annual salary range for the Illinois location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $115,500.00 - $202,000.00.Plymouth, MinnesotaType: Full time