Lead Solutions Architect

About the Role

Broadcom is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect to provide technical leadership and strategic guidance to enterprise customers adopting VMware by Broadcom solutions. This full-time role focuses primarily on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), translating business priorities into secure, scalable, and resilient private cloud architectures.

Role Context and Collaboration

The Solutions Architect works closely with customers, account teams, partners, and product specialists. This position involves leading technical discovery, developing solution designs, and demonstrating business value. Support extends from initial strategy and technical evaluation through implementation planning, platform adoption, and ongoing optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with business and technical stakeholders, understanding customer priorities, assessing existing infrastructure, and identifying modernization opportunities.
• Design integrated solutions across compute, storage, networking, security, automation, and operations using VMware Cloud Foundation, addressing availability, performance, recoverability, manageability, and security requirements.
• Lead architecture workshops, technical presentations, demonstrations, and proofs of concept, defining success criteria and validating proposed solutions against customer requirements.
• Partner with account teams to develop proposals, respond to technical requirements, and articulate the business value of VMware solutions to technical and executive audiences.
• Develop future state architectures and adoption roadmaps to help customers modernize infrastructure, migrate workloads, and expand their use of VCF capabilities.
• Collaborate with professional services, systems integrators, and customer teams to maintain architectural alignment during implementation, documenting assumptions, dependencies, risks, and design decisions.
• Maintain knowledge of the VMware portfolio and emerging customer requirements, including Kubernetes, application networking, security, and Private AI, and share customer feedback with product management and engineering teams.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrated experience in enterprise solutions architecture, technical consulting, or technical sales, with a strong background in virtualization and private cloud infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation and its core technologies, including vSphere, vSAN, and NSX.
• Understanding of infrastructure automation, operational management, networking, storage, disaster recovery, and security architecture.
• Proven ability to translate business and technical requirements into practical solution designs.
• Experience leading customer workshops, technical evaluations, and architecture discussions.

Essential Skills

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to business leaders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across sales, engineering, services, and partner teams.