Director of Solutions Architecture
Director of Solutions Architecture
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10-06-2025
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Job Description
About Megaport
Megaport has transformed the way IT gets connected. Were global leaders in Network as a Service (NaaS) changing the way businesses reach the cloud. Were also a leading partner to Amazon Microsoft Google IBM Oracle NYSE and many other leading technology companies. Megaport is a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange. Were a lean high-achieving team made up of over 300 members globally. While the company is headquartered in Brisbane Australia employees are spread out across North America Europe and Asia-Pacific. Staff enjoy an environment that is collaborative supportive and fun.
Our Team Culture
Join a team of globally-positioned industry experts that lead by example. We do not compromise our values for commercial gain; we are all custodians of our culture and the customer is at the centre of everything we do. Our employees are motivated adaptable persistent hard-working and dynamic. Our culture permeates everything we do and this in turn with a global vision forms a commitment to each other our customers and shareholders alike.
The Role
As the Director of Solution Architects you will manage a team of distributed Solutions Architects across the North American markets. As the Director you will be responsible for driving the technical solutions with senior management including sales management product engineering and business leaders within Megaport and our customer and partner base.
You will have the technical background to enable fluent conversations supporting our customers network infrastructure cloud interconnection and software requirements. This role is a key enabler for leading the solution sales across our sales organization in driving long term growth and success of the Megaport platform.
What Youll Be Doing
- Oversee a team of Solutions Architects (SAs) providing presales support in the sales cycle by analyzing coaching and training a distributed workforce towards partner and customer requirements.
- Contributing to the regional sales motions including planning and execution of strategies that support internal and external customer needs and requirements.
- Developing KPIs for a team of SAs to action upon including rating and reporting to ensure appropriate results on internal and external targets.
- Support sales opportunities for Megaport by creating and delivering demonstrations to customers and cloud sales partners. Content will include product education and presentations for use by Direct and Channel Sales Teams specifically as it pertains to integration with our cloud partners product sets.
- Ability to understand and articulate partner and customer business requirements developing corresponding network solution architecture designs that leverage Megaport and partner services.
- Develop industry content key performance indicators for the SA team to generate customer case studies info papers knowledge base articles for service deployment and competitive intelligence.
- Develop in-depth knowledge of Megaports product and service offerings competitive positioning and the products of our key cloud services partners we enable access to including Azure AWS Google IBM Oracle etc. Provide on-going knowledge-transfer to the Sales Technical Support and Marketing teams as well as to our authorized sales partners.
- Learn and strategically translate in-depth knowledge of industry trends.
- Learn and maintain in-depth knowledge of Megaports software API and be able to engage in technical discussions with our customers prospects and prospective partners.
- Engage and develop tech seller alignment with other Agent Channels SI ISV and cloud partners as needed.
What We Are Looking For
- Highly technical analytical and personable possess 7 years of current Solutions Architecture (implementation/consulting) or Sales Engineering experience. Areas of focus can include: Networking Background in Telecommunications Data Center and Public Cloud verticals.
- Hold 3 years in leadership roles managing direct technical solution sellers in Sales Engineering and/or Solution Architecture environments.
- Strong customer presentation and public speaking capabilities.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills are a must as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
- Experience in designing or deploying cloud/virtualization networking solutions in enterprise customer environments is highly desired.
- Strong Layer 1 Layer 2 and Layer 3 Networking design practices.
- Internet infrastructure computer science or a cloud computing background is highly desired; working knowledge of software development practices and engineering technologies are highly desired.
- Must work successfully in a remote globally distributed work environment.
- Ability and willingness to travel at least 30% of the time.
What We Offer
- Flexible working environments
- Birthday Leave
- Generous study and training allowance 5 days paid study leave
- Remote work environment with access to co-working space
- Motivated team of industry experts and new talent
- Celebrated success with Legend and Kudos Awards
- Health and wellness program
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If you have any questions please reach out to Megaports Talent Acquisition Team at
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Please see Part 2 of our Privacy Policy to see what information Megaport collects from job applicants why and how we store and use it. Note that youre entitled to know what personal data of yours Megaport holds to request updates rectification and in some circumstances restriction or deletion thereof if you object (you being entitled to withdraw your consent to our holding your information at any time). Please see Part 5 of our Privacy Policy for more details on this and how to contact Megaports data protection officer if you have any further privacy-related questions. Candidates who meet the selection criteria will be invited to attend an interview. Strictly no Recruitment Agencies.
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