Who You Are:

You are an experienced network and security professional with a strong background in cloud technologies and project leadership. You have a track record of delivering results in these domains and foster a culture of continuous improvement and resilience within your teams.

You excel at effectively extracting, documenting, and disseminating tacit knowledge and have built robust teams capable of managing failures. Your strong relationship-building skills extend to subcontractors and internal teams.

Possessing relevant industry certifications such as JNCIS, JNCIE, CCNP, CISSP, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect gives you a competitive edge. With exceptional communication, problem-solving, and organizational abilities, you are the ideal candidate for this role.

About The Role: 

As the Director of Architecture and Engineering, you will be responsible for overseeing architecture and engineering in compute/storage/cloud/networking and security domains within our Professional Services organization that designs, implements, and maintains solutions for our customer base of enterprise and service provider clients globally.

This role involves maturing individuals and team dynamics while building client relationships. In this role, you will ensure meticulous execution of projects and initiatives while drawing on your architectural expertise. While primarily focused on consultation, your responsibilities may occasionally extend to sales engineering or technical project management.

This is an ideal opportunity for a talented technical generalist with strong business acumen and leadership ability. This position reports directly to the Vice President of Professional Services. 

Other responsibilities include: 

• Translate technical context between business and technical disciplines across a spectrum of technologies.
• Oversee and ensure the successful execution of projects, aligning with timelines and quality standards while maintaining efficiency.
• Maintain and drive effective relationships with clients in an executive sponsor capacity.
• Engage deeply with clients to understand their needs and provide strategic, tailored IT solutions.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with key decision-makers in client organizations, working alongside our sales and marketing teams to identify and secure business opportunities.
• Lead the technical design and development of client-specific innovative solutions.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to align our solutions with customer needs and expectations.
• Monitor and report key performance indicators (KPIs) to senior management, offering insights into the effectiveness and success of engineering efforts.
• Maintain a working understanding of cutting-edge technologies in cloud, networking, and security.
• Offer technical expertise to the sales and marketing team for the development of client-focused proposals.
• Represent the company at industry conferences, trade shows, and networking events to enhance our profile and generate new business leads.
• Build and nurture strategic partnerships with vendors and technology providers to expand our solutions and services portfolio.
• Promote and embody a culture of servant leadership, emphasizing empowerment, knowledge sharing, and accountability.
• Implement strategies to harness tacit knowledge within the team, transforming it into documented best practices and insights.
• Create a resilient team environment where failure is a learning experience, fostering training and risk mitigation.
• Work closely with subcontractors and the project management team for cohesive collaboration and project alignment.
• Foster a transparent decision-making culture, advocating for open communication and collective problem-solving.
• Manage diverse team performance levels to ensure a harmonious and efficient work environment.
• Complete ongoing security awareness training and comply with company policies to the requirements section.
• Identify and escalate security risks to the appropriate Executive Leadership Team member and actively contribute to remediation efforts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Desired skills and experience: 

• Extensive experience in network, security, and cloud technologies, underscored by successful project leadership.
• Proven skills in servant leadership, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and resilience.
• Aptitude for extracting, documenting, and disseminating tacit knowledge within a technical team.
• Experience in building robust teams capable of managing failures and setbacks effectively.
• Strong relationship-building skills with subcontractors and internal teams.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., JNCIS, JNCIE, CCNP, CISSP, AWS Certified Solutions Architect) are advantageous.
• Exceptional communication, problem-solving, and organizational abilities.

A Little About Us 

Our mission is to challenge and enable our employees to achieve great things. 

We live and breathe our core values: 

• We Before Me: We demonstrate empathy through our actions and solicit diverse voices and opinions. We put ourselves in each other’s shoes, readily admit our mistakes, and generously share our time and knowledge.
• Dare To Be Great: We are big-picture thinkers who focus on solutions to problems. We solicit and offer actionable feedback to others without hesitation. We embrace opportunities to improve ourselves, our teams, and our work. We aim to be the best of the best.
• Own It: We set clear expectations, communicate proactively, and follow through on our commitments. We take pride in the experiences we create and the outcomes we deliver. We are personally invested in the success of our team and our clients. We iterate to deliver ever better results.

We are consistently listed among Inc & Crain's "Best Places to Work" and we're proud of our accessible & engaged executive team. We believe in cultivating an atmosphere of inclusion and providing an environment that enables every employee to work to the best of their ability. 

Some of Our Benefits 

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Company-funded 401k contributions
• 100% employer covered individual & family health insurance plans provided
• Transparent, candid culture with 1:1 coaching, performance reviews, and a consistent feedback loop
• Quirky, diverse, respectful, high-performing coworkers you’ll want to achieve greatness with!

Must be based in the United States.  

Pursuant to the NYC Pay Transparency Law, the base salary range in New York City for this position is $160,000-$230,000, OTE (includes base salary plus bonus and/or commission). Compensation in other geographies may vary. 

Myriad360 is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.