As a Senior Lead Consultant, you must have minimum 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure and enterprise networking, with at least 2 years in technical consulting, solution architecture, and your primary responsibility is end-to-end network solutioning, technical consulting for pre-sales and customer engagements.

Ensure alignment of solutions with business goals, operational standards, and industry best practices.

Manage high-priority technical escalations and critical customer issues. Engage with customer leadership teams on strategic infrastructure discussions to identify the gaps and improvements.

Key Responsibilities :

Technical Leadership :

- Lead end-to-end network solution design and consulting engagements for customers.

- Analyze customer business and technical requirements to recommend scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions.

- Develop High-Level Designs (HLD) and Low-Level Designs (LLD).

- Ensure alignment of solutions with business goals, operational standards, and industry best practices.

- Provide guidance on network transformation, modernization, and optimization initiatives.

- Technical Consultation, POCs for internal or customer solution requirement.

- Support capability development within the networking practice.

- Provide architectural guidance across hybrid and multi-vendor environments.

- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend suitable adoption strategies.

Customer Interaction :

- Act as the primary technical consultant and trusted advisor for customers.

- Customer engagements like workshops, discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and technical presentations.

- Engage with customer leadership teams on strategic infrastructure discussions to identify the gaps and improvements.

- Manage high-priority technical escalations and critical customer issues.

Presales & Business Enablement :

- Support pre-sales activities including Technical solutioning, RFP/RFI responses, proposal preparation, technical estimations, and solution presentations.

- Collaborate with sales and account teams to identify business opportunities.

- Assist in project scope definition and WBS preparation.

Project & Delivery Leadership :

- Provide technical leadership during implementation and migration activities.

- Work closely with project managers and cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery.

- Review project deliverables and ensure adherence to quality standards.

- Identify project risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.

Skills and Competencies :

Must-Have :

- Hands on experience in designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise networking solutions across LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, Wireless, Data Center, and Cloud environments.

- Strong understanding of secure network architectures, including VPN, Network Access Control (NAC), Load Balancing, and hybrid connectivity.

- Proven expertise in network monitoring, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and cross-technology integration.

- Working experience managing customer, stakeholder relationships and reporting.

- Must have prior experience of onsite-offshore delivery model and should have directly worked with US/European customers and colleagues.

Preferred Vendor Experience :

- Palo Alto Networks.

- Cisco Systems.

- Juniper Networks.

- Fortinet.

- Arista Networks.

Good to Have :

- Good understanding of other infrastructure platforms like Virtualization, Monitoring, Cloud, Security.

- Relevant industry certifications such as CCNP Enterprise, PCNSE, Fortinet NSE, Azure, or AWS are preferred.

- Managing IT Infrastructure projects with global teams and remote teams will be a strong plus.

Certifications :

- ITIL, MCSE, Azure/AWS, VCP, etc.