This is a fully remote position open to candidates based in Canada.
Overview
Anovia is seeking a Presales Solutions Architect to serve as the primary technical partner to our sales team on strategic, multi-tower opportunities spanning cybersecurity, enterprise networking, cloud, and managed services. In this role, you will lead customer-facing discovery and design sessions, shape technical win strategy, and produce the architecture, documentation, and business cases that carry an opportunity from first conversation to signed statement of work. You will work closely with technical and executive stakeholders alike, translating complex solutions into clear business outcomes.
The ideal candidate has already built a career in customer-facing presales architecture at a VAR, MSP, or IT services firm, and is comfortable owning technical strategy for complex, multi-domain deals. Strong communication skills are essential, as the role requires presenting equally well to network and security engineers and to CIO or CISO level stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead customer-facing design workshops and architecture sessions with both technical and executive stakeholders.
- Architect end-to-end solutions spanning next-generation firewalls, SASE, Zero Trust, SD-WAN, and hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
- Produce solution design documentation, architecture diagrams, bills of materials, and statements of work for client engagements.
- Develop outcome-based business cases for managed services and recurring revenue programs.
- Partner with the sales team as the primary technical advisor on strategic accounts, from discovery through proposal.
- Maintain vendor partner relationships and stay current on evolving security and networking technology.
Requirements
- 7+ years of overall IT experience, including 3+ years in a customer-facing presales solution architect or senior systems engineer role.
- Demonstrated experience leading technical discovery, architecture design, and presales engagements for complex networking and cybersecurity solutions.
- Strong technical expertise in cybersecurity technologies, including next-generation firewalls, SASE, Zero Trust Network Access, and SIEM.
- Working knowledge of enterprise networking, including routing and switching, SD-WAN, and wireless technologies.
- Experience architecting hybrid and multi-cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical concepts to both engineering and executive audiences.
- Legally entitled to work in Canada without employer sponsorship.
Nice to Have
Candidates with experience in any of the following areas will be given preference: