Strategic Solution Architect – Network Powered Solution
Vonage
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Act as the technical authority for overlay-led opportunities from qualification through close.
- Lead customer discussion to understand challenges and problems, solution discovery, architecture definition, and technical validation for complex deals.
- Ensure proposed solutions align with product roadmap, reference architectures, and scalability principles.
- Gather and translate customer business requirements into clear, executable solution designs.
- Partner tightly with Sales Overlay Leads to support solution-led selling and value articulation.
- Participate in customer workshops, technical deep dives, and executive briefings.
- Help frame technical capabilities into business outcomes, ROI, and differentiation narratives.
- Support pricing, packaging, and scope definition by ensuring solution feasibility and margin discipline.
- Define and maintain reference architectures, solution patterns, and deployment blueprints for priority use cases and verticals.
- Identify opportunities to productize or templatize custom solutions to drive repeatable revenue.
- Reduce bespoke implementations by promoting modular, platform-based designs.
- Identify technical, operational, and integration risks early in the sales cycle.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to validate feasibility, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
- Ensure handoff readiness from sales to delivery, including documentation, assumptions, and success criteria.
- Act as the technical bridge between Sales, Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, and Operations.
- Provide structured feedback from the field into product roadmap, feature gaps, and integration priorities.
- Support internal enablement through training, playbooks, and solution walkthroughs.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, pre-sales engineering, or technical consulting
- Proven experience supporting complex, enterprise-grade sales motions
- Strong background in platform, API/CPaaS, Telco, cloud, network, or SaaS architectures
- Ability to translate technical concepts into executive-level business language
- Experience operating in matrixed, global organizations
- Experience in overlay or specialist sales support roles
- Exposure to launching or scaling new products or strategic solutions
- Familiarity with vertical-specific architectures and regulated environments
- Strategic thinker as a customer trusted advisor
- Structured, analytical, and detail-oriented
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and high-growth environments
Benefits
- There’s no perfect candidate. You don't need all the preferred qualifications to make a valuable impact on our team. Our employees and customers come from diverse backgrounds, so if you're passionate about what you could achieve at Vonage, we'd love to hear from you.
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- Vonage is a global cloud communications leader. And your talent will further help brands - such as Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat - accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable-based unified communications, contact center solutions, and communications APIs. Ready to innovate? Then join us today.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
solution architecturepre-sales engineeringtechnical consultingAPICPaaScloud architecturenetwork architectureSaaS architecturesolution designrisk identification
Soft Skills
customer trusted advisorstrategic thinkinganalytical skillsdetail-orientedcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilityleadershiporganizational skills