Equinix

The world's digital infrastructure company™

Principal Solutions Architect

Full TimeRemoteTeam 5,001-10,000Since 1998H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Massachusetts

Posted

5 days ago

Salary

$241K - $361K / year

Bachelor Degree10 yrs expEnglishCloudGo

Job Description

• Position the Global Platform Lead strategic platform discovery and qualification for major enterprise opportunities, establishing trusted advisor status with senior and C-level stakeholders across multi-region accounts. • Champion the platform promise of reach, reliability, and interconnection, positioning Equinix’s differentiated advantage across data center, digital services, and managed services portfolios. • Translate complex platform and ecosystem capabilities into compelling, outcome-oriented narratives tailored to executive and business personas. • Own the technical win end-to-end: whiteboarding, high-level discovery, and comprehensive technical account plan development. • Drive stakeholder relationship management across the sales team, leading the technical engagement process and channeling product feedback to improve portfolio outcomes. • Go into every customer engagement fully prepared: personas, research, desired outcomes, and disciplined AE partnership. • Articulate the full value of Equinix’s interconnection portfolio, including Equinix Fabric and cross-connects, to senior technical and business stakeholders across enterprise accounts. • Position ecosystem value and differentiated interconnection advantage across multiple personas and lines of business. • Develop and document reference architectures and strategic use cases that drive measurable customer outcomes and expand platform adoption. • Own end-to-end architecture strategy for assigned enterprise accounts, delivering consistent, comprehensive, and accurate technical account plans. • Drive global technical strategy across complex, multi-stakeholder engagements, coordinating across supporting GTM teams to deliver a unified and superior customer experience. • Lead customer workshops, executive briefings, and whiteboard sessions for transformational technology decisions spanning hybrid and multi-cloud modernization journeys.

Job Requirements

  • 10+ years of technical sales or solutions engineering experience in enterprise field-facing roles.
  • Senior technical background in the data center industry, networking, service providers, and hybrid cloud architecture.
  • Strong proficiency with Networking concepts specifically in Layer 2 and Layer 3
  • Experience leading technical qualification, discovery, and stakeholder alignment for large, complex, multi-region strategic engagements.
  • Familiarity with Platform Equinix footprint and interconnection portfolio.
  • Familiarity with Virtualization Platforms / Concepts a plus both for Compute and Network Functions
  • Strong understanding of leveraging partner networks and ecosystems to drive customer outcomes.
  • Experience with recurring revenue, sales complexity, solution selling, and enabling platforms for B2B.
  • Experience engaging and selling to different personas and lines of business.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related engineering discipline preferred.
  • Advanced industry certifications preferred.

Benefits

  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Insurance: You may enroll in health, life, disability and voluntary plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members.
  • Retirement: You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future.
  • Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge.

Related Categories

Related Job Pages