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Cisco Systems is the world''s leading networking technology company, designing and manufacturing networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and cybersecurity solutions for businesses and governments. Industry: Networking Technology & Cybersecurity
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The Technical Marketing Engineering Leader joins the Cisco Validated team to transform integrated technology strategies into field-credible, evidence-backed proof. This role involves leading cross-portfolio validation efforts for integrated solutions, building and testing complex lab environments that reflect real customer scenarios, and identifying integration gaps or product limitations. You will collaborate with product managers, architects, and field teams to translate technical findings into assets like reference architectures, case studies, and deployment guidance. Key technical competencies include secure networking, routing, switching, wireless, security architectures, cloud, data center, AI infrastructure, and digital resilience. You will also mentor developing TMEs and shape repeatable validation practices. The work focuses on validating cross-portfolio outcomes across networking, security, collaboration, and AI to ensure technologies work together effectively in diverse enterprise and service provider environments.
Lead cross-portfolio validation efforts for integrated Cisco solutions aligned with strategic priorities.
Define validation scope, success criteria, and evidence requirements for ambiguous technical requests.
Build, configure, test, and troubleshoot complex lab environments reflecting real customer scenarios.
Identify integration gaps, product limitations, and readiness concerns to inform leadership decisions.
Produce technical evidence, lab notes, configuration artifacts, and documentation for validated outcomes.
Mentor developing TMEs and external partners by setting technical direction and reviewing evidence quality.
Translate technical findings into assets for sales teams, architects, partners, and customers.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
12+ years of hands-on technical experience designing, implementing, validating, troubleshooting, or supporting complex enterprise, service provider, cloud, security, collaboration, or data center technology environments.
Experience in networking, security, cloud, collaboration, automation, or adjacent infrastructure technologies with depth in at least one major technical domain.
Experience leading technical work across cross-functional stakeholders including product, engineering, field, sales, or customer-facing teams.
Experience translating ambiguous technical or business objectives into scoped validation plans, evidence requirements, findings, and field-ready outputs.
Deep knowledge of the Cisco portfolio with hands-on experience across multiple Cisco technologies, architectures, or solution domains (preferred).
Experience with AI infrastructure, AI-ready data center architectures, GPU cluster networking, or secure AI architecture concepts (preferred).
Experience validating, designing, deploying, or supporting integrated solutions in lab, field, customer, partner, or systems engineering environments (preferred).
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