Sr. Solutions Architect (Houston, TX)

Presidio, Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the Future
At Presidio, we’re at the forefront of a global technology revolution, transforming industries through cutting-edge digital solutions and next-generation AI. We empower businesses—and their customers—to achieve more through innovation, automation, and intelligent insights.

The Role
Presidio has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Solutions Architect supporting Texas region. This position will be based in either Houston, TX or Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
  
The Senior Solutions Architect (Sr. SA) is a senior-level presales technical leader responsible for consultative discovery, solution architecture, proposal development, and executive engagement. This role translates customer business objectives into secure, scalable, and future-ready infrastructure solutions. 
  
This position is designed for a senior architect with deep expertise in either Datacenter & Hybrid Cloud OR Enterprise Networking & Security. 

Travel Requirements 

In this role, you will be expected to travel up to 25% in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and the Central Texas market (Austin/San Antonio).  

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES (ALL CANDIDATES) 

• Lead consultative discovery across Business, Technical, Operational, and Financial domains. 
• Assess customer current-state architectures and define target-state roadmaps. 
• Conduct workshops and executive whiteboard sessions. 
• Drive technical strategy aligned to customer success criteria. 
• Lead demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, and architecture design sessions. 
• Design end-to-end solutions across hardware, software, cloud, managed services, and consulting. 
• Create technical proposals, diagrams, BOMs, and SOWs. 
• Support RFP/RFI responses and deliver executive-level presentations. 
• Participate in account planning and vendor partner engagement. 
• Mentor and enable other presales team members. 

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS 

Candidates must demonstrate expert-level experience in ONE or more of the following domains: 

Senior Datacenter & Hybrid Cloud Architect Track 

• Compute platforms (Cisco UCS, Dell, HPE) 
• Enterprise storage (Dell/EMC, Pure; others a plus) 
• Virtualization (VMware vSphere, Nutanix) 
• Operating systems (Windows Server, Red Hat Linux) 
• Storage fundamentals (RAID, SAN/NAS, NFS, iSCSI, snapshots, encryption) 
• AWS and/or Azure architecture 
• Cloud connectivity (DirectConnect, ExpressRoute) 

Additional / Supporting Skillsets 

• Automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, vRealize) 
• Containers (Docker, Kubernetes) 
• Data protection (Dell, Commvault, Rubrik, Cohesity) 
• Observability tools (Splunk, Dynatrace) 
• 5+ years designing and implementing complex datacenter solutions 
• Experience supporting mid-market and enterprise clients 

Senior Enterprise Networking & Security Architect Track 

• Cisco enterprise networking (switching, routing, wireless, datacenter switching) <