
Team Lead, Pre-Sales Solutions Architect
Bulletproof
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Waltham • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $125,000 - $140,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Provide day‑to‑day leadership, coaching, and mentoring to Solution Architects, ensuring clarity of expectations, consistent delivery, and professional growth.
- Conduct regular one‑on‑ones, performance evaluations, and development planning for team members.
- Foster a collaborative, high‑performance culture with a focus on accountability, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
- Coordinate workload distribution, ensuring appropriate resource allocation across pre‑sales engagements.
- Champion a people‑first leadership style that supports engagement, well‑being, and teamwork.
- Lead the development, documentation, and rollout of standardized Solution Architecture processes, templates, and best practices.
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive tasks, increase efficiency, and improve solution consistency across the team.
- Implement scalable processes for solution design, estimation, handoff, and internal communication.
- Support the Bulletproof sales team by providing technical oversight for pre-sales activities and attending client meetings.
- Maintain expert knowledge of Bulletproof’s products and services, with a focus on MSP and MSSP, and the way BP is delivering these services with input from the divisional operational VPs.
- Guide team members in gathering client requirements, designing solutions, and following industry best practices.
- Review and approve technical specifications, design documents, and other architectural artifacts generated by the team.
- Oversee the development of accurate project scopes, timelines, and delivery expectations.
- Support webinars, onsite visits, seminars, events, and tradeshows as needed.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and lead the team in recommending innovative, efficient solutions.
- Act as the primary liaison between the Solution Architecture team and other departments, including Sales, MSP, and SOC Delivery, Professional Services, PMO, and Product Development.
- Establish clear communication channels to improve visibility, feedback loops, and alignment on project scope, timelines, and priorities.
- Provide timely updates, insights, and escalations to leadership and internal stakeholders.
- Ensure consistent, high-quality communication to clients, partners, and internal teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years technical sales or pre‑sales architecture experience; managed IT services & managed security services experience is required.
- 5+ years working with vendors, distributors, and resellers within a channel structure.
- 3+ years hands‑on experience with Microsoft Windows operating systems and related software.
- 3+ years administering and architecting cloud environments including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and the Microsoft Defender suite.
- Experience with SharePoint Online, Power Platform, and Azure DevOps.
- 5+ years sizing, architecting, and deploying infrastructure solutions (servers, storage, virtualization, networking, security).
- 5+ years designing Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery solutions.
- Experience architecting solutions involving Microsoft, HPE, Dell, Cisco, and Fortinet equipment considered an asset.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Optional Health 100% Employer Paid Health and Dental Plan
- Vacation Time
- RRSP Savings Plan with 100% match up to 3% of your salary
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- Anniversary Reward Bonus
- Educational Assistance Program
- Additional Mental Health Benefits through our Employee Assistance Program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
technical salespre-sales architectureMicrosoft Windowscloud environmentsMicrosoft AzureMicrosoft 365Microsoft DefenderBusiness Continuity solutionsDisaster Recovery solutionsinfrastructure solutions
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingmentoringcollaborationaccountabilitycontinuous learningcommunicationteamworkperformance evaluationresource allocation