Solutions Engineer - Industrial IoT

<p>Job Title: Solution Engineer – Industrial IoT</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><b>About the Role:</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p>We are seeking a highly motivated and technically adept Solution Engineer (SE) to join our growing Industrial IoT team in EMEA. The Solutions Engineer is a customer-focused technical sales professional who ensures that technical information and guidance is provided to the customer, delivering meaningful business outcomes based on Cisco’s product and services portfolio. The SE will partner with our Account Executives in a pre-sales technical function, showcasing Cisco solutions, providing customer presentations, performing technical demonstrations, creating bills of materials, and running proof of concept activities. The SE will partner, consult, influence, and design solutions to allow the customer to meet their desired outcomes. In addition to technology aptitude and the ability to learn quickly and stay current; the ideal candidate's interpersonal, presentation, and troubleshooting skills should evoke passion and confidence.   <br /><br /></p><p><b>Responsibilities:<br /></b></p><ul><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Owning the technical plan for your territory aligned with the Industrial IoT Account Executive (EA)</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Support EA’s and account teams on new opportunity development while contributing to the technical account plan with a blueprint of the customer’s digitization journey</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Communicate and educate generalist teams on key technical solutions, vertical designs/architectures, new product introductions</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Maintains a community of champion solution engineers for continued enablement for scaling while influencing territory representation with the industrial IoT business entity.</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Design and apply technical solutions and architectures working closely with the portfolio SE’s</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Documenting and best practice sharing of industry vertical use cases </span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Solution led selling based on Industrial validated designs</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Deliver demo’s, proof of concepts and proof of value directly to customers or working with partners and/or the Cisco CX organization</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Build strong competitive technical expertise to support RFPs for differentiation</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Manage a comprehensive personal demo environment to build skills, test solutions as well as helping portfolio sellers and partners to build similar capabilities</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Support technical seminars and enablement activities across EMEA to drive IoT sales campaigns</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Work with CXC, innovation centers, etc. teams to expand their Industrial IoT capabilities for customer facing demonstrations</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Drives/influences roadmap discussions with Industrial IoT Business Entity (BE), based on territory requirements; manages Aha! process.</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Works with customers and the Industrial IoT BE to encourage Early Field Trial (EFT) participation and feedback.</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Continuous self-development<b> </b>for technical and vertical excellence</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Be a technology solution consultant, based on your rare industrial skillset</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Leverage innovative approaches to address common industry problems, and build creative solutions aligned to key customer outcomes</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Captivate and hold engaging, dynamic and technology-centric workshops designed to motivate customers to a solution architecture approach</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Present and participate at customer and industry events, and symposiums</span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">Embrace Cisco certified AI tools to help augment, scale and differentiate Cisco from competitors.<br /> </span></li></ul><p><b>Languages Spoken<br /></b></p><ul><li>Fluent in English and Swedish</li><li>Fluency in Finnish would be desirable</li></ul><br /><p><b>Minimum Qualifications & Experience<br /></b></p><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Engineering (e.g., Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Computer), Computer Science, or a related technical field. Master's degree is a plus.</li></ul><ul><li style="color:#07182d !important"><span style="color:#07182d">5+ years of industry-related experience </span></li><li style="color:black !important"><span style="color:#000000">As an Industrial Solution Engineer, you should have a good understanding of industrial applications such as Profinet, Ethernet/IP, Modbus, etc. and industrial protocols such as DLR, PRP, HSR, PTP, IEC61850 including experience on industrial architectures such as the Purdue model.</span></li><li style="color:#07182d !important"><span style="color:#07182d">Knowledge of Cisco's Industrial Networking, Security and Network Automation & Management solutions </span></li><li style="color:#07182d !important"><span style="color:#07182d">Experience in MPLS, SRv6, SD-WAN, SD-Access, REP, Micro-segmentation, VPN, PQC, LTE connectivity and Wi-Fi is essential</span></li></ul><ul><li>Strong field sales experience combined with hands on technical experience</li></ul><ul><li>Experience working in multi-cultural environments</li></ul><ul><li>Experience presenting to large Executive level audiences</li></ul><ul><li>Experience preparing high impact demos and workshops</li></ul><ul><li style="color:#07182d !important"><span style="color:#000000">Experience as overlay sales professional</span></li><li style="color:#07182d !important"><span style="color:#000000">Functional understanding of AI concepts and tools<br /></span></li></ul><p><b>Preferred Qualifications<br /></b></p><ul><li style="color:#07182d !important"><span style="color:#07182d">CCNP, CCDP or CCIE certification preferred</span></li><li style="color:#07182d !important"><span style="color:#07182d">Good communication and presentation skills</span></li></ul><ul><li>Familiarity in at least one relevant programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, C++, Java).</li><li>Experience with cybersecurity principles in industrial control systems e.g. IEC62443.</li></ul><ul><li style="color:#07182d !important"><span style="color:#07182d">Customer relationship building skills </span></li><li style="color:#07182d !important"><span style="color:#07182d">Pre-sales experience preferred</span></li><li style="color:#07182d !important"><span style="color:#07182d">Experience in working on industry domains such as Utilities, Manufacturing, Transportation, Oil & Gas, Mining, Defense would be beneficial</span></li></ul><p></p><h1>Why Cisco? </h1><p>At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. 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