Platform Architect

📋 Job Overview

You are a seasoned virtualization architect who thrives in complex, multi-domain environments and enjoys guiding clients towards outcomes that align technology with business strategy. You bring a consultative mindset to every engagement, asking the right questions and influencing decisions rather than leading with products. You are comfortable owning solution strategy end to end, partnering closely with Account Executives and technical leaders to drive successful deal outcomes. You also take pride in mentoring others, helping elevate technical rigor and consultative skills across the organization.

🏢 About Myriad360

Our mission is to challenge and enable our employees to achieve great things. We live and breathe our core values:

• We Before Me: We demonstrate empathy through our actions and solicit diverse voices and opinions. We put ourselves in each other’s shoes, readily admit our mistakes, and generously share our time and knowledge.
• Dare To Be Great: We are big-picture thinkers who focus on solutions to problems. We solicit and offer actionable feedback to others without hesitation. We embrace opportunities to improve ourselves, our teams, and our work. We aim to be the best of the best.
• Own It: We set clear expectations, communicate proactively, and follow through on our commitments. We take pride in the experiences we create and the outcomes we deliver. We are personally invested in the success of our team and our clients. We iterate to deliver ever better results.

We are consistently listed among Inc & Crain's \"Best Places to Work\" and we're proud of our accessible & engaged executive team. We believe in cultivating an atmosphere of inclusion and providing an environment that enables every employee to work to the best of their ability.

🎯 The Role

The Senior Virtualization Pre-Sales Architect plays a critical role in shaping technical strategy for high-value, multi-practice opportunities at Myriad360. This role carries full ownership of solution architecture from discovery through design validation and deal progression. You will collaborate closely with Account Executives, Practice Directors, Client Solution Architects, and Principal Architects to deliver cohesive, scalable solutions that align with client goals and business priorities. As a senior technical leader, you will serve as a trusted advisor to clients and a mentor to CSAs and engineers across the organization.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead sophisticated, technical workshops centered on educating clients, creating conceptual designs, functional consumption plans, and other various workshop topics needed for pre-sales consulting
• Assume full ownership of solution architecture and technical strategy for medium to large-scale opportunities
• Proactively identify cross-practice opportunities spanning networking, data center, cloud, security, and platform engineering
• Collaborate with Client Solution Architects (CSAs) to ensure alignment across practices by supporting cohesive architectural solutions and well-defined execution pathways
• Collaborate with Practice Directors and Principal Architects to draft and validate solution designs, bills of materials (BOMs), and statements of work (SOWs)
• Serve as a key technical escalation point during advanced stages of the sales cycle
• Oversee and provide support for professional services engagements
• Build, maintain, and perform demos in the Myriad 360 lab and/or in partner lab environments
• Mentor CSAs and engineers in best practices for solution design, discovery methods, and consultative selling
• Contribute to the development of reusable solution patterns, reference architectures, and enablement resources
• Represent Myriad360 in senior-level client discussions, workshops, and technical briefings
• Complete ongoing security awareness training and comply with company policies to the requirements section
• Identify and escalate security risks to the appropriate Executive Leadership Team member and actively contribute to remediation efforts
• Other duties as assigned

📌 Required Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in virtualization solution architecture, pre-sales engineering, technical consulting, and/or customer engineering roles
• Relevant OEM certifications (current VCF 9 certifications) are highly preferred
• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with Broadcom VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x or its components preferred
• Demonstrated success in designing and selling non-VMware solutions such as Nutanix preferred
• Demonstrated knowledge in designing and selling vSphere Kubernetes Service and/or other Kubernetes platforms preferred
• Demonstrated success in designing and selling datacenter compute, storage, and/or data protection (DR, backup, replication) solutions desired
• Advanced consultative discovery skills with a proven ability to guide client decision-making processes
• Capability to independently manage complex technical sales cycles
• A strong desire to learn new technologies outside of your comfort zone to keep up with bleeding edge approaches

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x
• Experience with Nutanix
• Experience with vSphere Kubernetes Service
• Experience with Kubernetes platforms
• Experience with datacenter compute, storage, and data protection solutions

🎁 Benefits

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Incentive compensation plans for all employees
• Company-funded 401k contributions
• Zero-cost employer-covered health insurance
• Annual BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) reimbursement up to $500
• Paid Parental Leave
• Transparent, candid culture with 1:1 coaching, performance reviews, and a consistent feedback loop
• Quirky, diverse, respectful, high-performing coworkers you’ll want to achieve greatness with!

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Must be based and reside in the United States. Travel up to 25% may be required.