Associate Director Solutions Architecture

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What you’ll be doing...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Enterprise Network Services (FENS) Associate
Director of Solutions Architecture has responsibility for the FENS technical architecture
including customer-specific service designs, optimization, and near- and longer-term
optimization of the FENS network.

As the Associate Director of Solutions Architecture for the Public Sector Federal Aviation
Administration Enterprise Network Engineering Services (FENS) Enterprise Services team, you
lead the FENS infrastructure engineering team to design, test, implement, operate, and
continually transform the FAA safety-critical, administrative, and research and development
networks.  You will lead and work cross functionally with a variety of Verizon internal and
external teams and Third-party providers. 

As the Associate Director of Solutions Architecture, you are well versed across multiple
technology disciplines to include but not limited to Site services, Managed Services, Diversity
(electrical, physical, and carrier) Enterprise Solutions, MPLS, Voice services, Cisco DMPVN,
Wireless (4G and 5G), IT, Cloud, SD-WAN and more. 

You’ll lead team of Solutions Architects to drive excellence in solutions development, solutions
selling, and opportunity closure. You’ll play a vital role in driving our advanced solutions
business performance, growing the capability of your team, and ensuring that nothing gets in the
way of achieving success.

• Focused on the technical, business, and cost modeling aspects of delivering

• integrated architectures for the FAA FENS opportunity.  The goal will be to deliver the

• best technical solutions along with the best customer service. You will need experience:

• Understand customer business challenges.

• Draft agreements with pricing, service commitments, and technical specifications.

• Provide briefings at various levels.

• Develop and deliver technology roadmap upgrades during the life of the contract.

• Conduct and build business and cost models based on technical architecture.

• Identify, own, and drive resolutions to gaps in the deal lifecycle delivery processes.

• Lead and guide internal and external teams with creating and delivering complex,

• integrated solutions to meet our customer requirements

What we’re looking for...

You are an effective and inspiring leader, able to engage and motivate your team and the cross
functional teams to deliver outstanding performance. You have the business insight and
executive presence to establish credibility with executive leaders (e.g., internally, customer, and
partners), and guide the growth of a team to deliver on expectations, milestones, and
deliverables. As a business and technical leader you are able to explain how Verizon solutions
can help solve everyday business problems in an effective manner. You enjoy working in a
dynamic environment and can balance contending demands and priorities.

You'll need to have:

• Experience with Verizon products and services, as well as Verizon back-end systems to

• order and provision services.

• Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Experience in working with OEMs and developing BOMs.

• Ability to manage and balance business and technical requirements.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance of Public Trust.

• Experience in communicating (written and spoken) highly technical, multi-faceted (e.g.,

• network, security, data, application) solutions to customers in a simple, understandable

• manner.

• Vendor management and negotiation experience

• Three or more years experience managing large-scale technical teams with end-to-end

• accountability.

• Highly organized with an ability to manage competing priorities.

• Demonstrated interpersonal communication, organization and project management skills.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

•  Experience managing teams in several of the following disciplines:
      o Data and IP Services (MPLS, SIP, internet, VPN, SDN, NFV, SDWAN).
      o Access Technologies (TDM, Ethernet).
      o Network Operations (Managed Services for WLAN, LAN, WAN, IP PBX, Automation/Orchestration).
      o Security (DDOS, FW, IDS, WAF, DDI, SIEM, Analytics, Micro-segmentation).
      o Cloud and Data Center Outsourcing (application management, compute and storage, virtualization, IaaS,PaaS, and SaaS).
      o Wireless technologies (FWA, LTE, IoT).
      o IT Applications Management (SOA, Web Services).
      o Voice Services (Circuit Switched Voice, IP Voice, SIP Trunking).

• Current Security, architecture, and industry certifications such as (Cisco CCIE, CCNA or

• CCNP, CCSK, TOGAFv9, ITIL, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.).

• Five or more years of successful experience with strategic solutions and/or systems

• integration design and solutions selling experience (consultative solutions selling).

• Public Sector Domain Experience

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

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