Senior Field Solution Architect, Threat and Vulnerability

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Job Summary:
The Senior Security Solution Architect (SSA) role focuses on pre-sales solution design. This role is responsible for working with internal and external sales teams to plan and organize sales strategies. The incumbent analyzes the sales environment including customer expectations, competitive environment as well as the customer's technical environment and define actions to be performed in the sales cycle timeframe.  
The Senior SSA is a field-based technical presales role. They are expected to spend the majority of their time onsite at CDW customer locations in their local markets.
The Senior SSA develops and maintains strategic relationships with Sales Management of the teams they support and seen as a trusted advisor to grow business. 
The Senior SSA is expected to be subject matter expert in multiple families of solutions. The incumbent in this role operates independently using standard approaches, existing tools, templates, and resources; shares knowledge and information that may benefit the team.
What you will do:

• Technology Leadership: Is a passionate learner who demonstrates continuous learning by proactively expanding technical depth in products, solutions, and services. If pertinent, achieves certifications in advanced technologies for CDW's Partner Certification Requirements.
• Operates with the perspective and insight that business needs, not just technology, establish the limits on what can be achieved.
• Determines and defines services that complement and/or round out proposed hardware and software engagements, estimates required engineer effort.
• Uses team tools, templates, resources, and processes for maximum efficiency, productivity, consistency, and high quality execution.
• Provides feedback to technology leaders where opportunities exist to improve offerings, design, and delivery execution.
• Conducts technology/solutions training for CDW audiences (e.g., Sales, Security Solution Architects), using developed material.
• Contributes to the team’s knowledge base and readily shares knowledge with other SSAs, Security Solution executive, and Sales.
• Assists new team members by answering questions and sharing expertise on the tools of the job.
• Assists new hires by answering questions and sharing information.
• Sales: Follows up on implemented solutions and identifies new opportunities that complement the work that was completed.
• Researches and reviews customer profile information; applies knowledge of the vertical to develop customer intimacy prior to sales calls and/or strategy sessions.
• Assists customer in understanding their equipment maintenance contracts, upgrade needs, and renewals; analyses the most cost-effective approach for the customer (e.g., renew the contract or purchase new equipment and contract.)
• Uses various tools to calculate the Total Cost of Ownership and/or Return on Investment and explains to customers and Sales the business value of a solution and its benefits.
• Articulates to customers the Practice’s value proposition; articulates audience-centric version of the value proposition to customers, account managers, and partners and uses it to generate additional revenue opportunities for CDW.
• Leads business-focused technology solution presentations at CDW, Customer, and Partner events and meetings in your territory.
• Uses technology assessments and demos as a sales tool for furthering sales opportunities; identifies cross sell-and/or upsell opportunities for an engagement, equips/assists SSAs and Sales to pursue it.
• Collaborates with Partners, Security Solution Executive  (SSE) and Account Executives (AE) to drive mapped opportunities; fine tunes strategies and approaches to achieve greater sales results.
• Operates in a regular cadence with multiple partners to educate, plan, and execute on joint strategies in collaboration with multiple stakeholders (SSE, AM, Sales Managers, Field Sales); understands partner alignment in geography and leads customer opportunity mapping exercises; coordinates on-site partner visits.
• Develops a detailed and ambitious Territory Plan in collaboration with Partners, AEs, and SSEs and uses it to manage their business.
• Endpoint management experience with a focus on MS solutions like Intune, SCCM. With an openness to learn additional EMS such as BigFix and Tanium. 
• Sales Support: Responds to qu