Come join our team! At Unlimited Technology, we are committed to our company's core values of Passion, Collaboration, Innovation and Adaptability. With offices throughout the United States, we are a premier cyber and physical security specialty contractor, and we are growing at a rapid pace. We have a wide range of talented and experienced individuals that deliver cutting edge technology solutions to meet our customers’ ever-changing needs. We secure the facilities and networks of the world’s leading brands and critical infrastructure and are recognized leaders in the physical and IT security, cyber, and managed services industries. UT offers a rewarding career, great benefits, and the chance to learn and work with ground-breaking technology and premier clients.
The Solutions Engineer III is a senior technical resource routinely relied upon to partner with Business Development Account Managers on pre-sales designs, Bills of Material, and Scopes of Work for government, enterprise, campus, and mission-critical opportunities, including those with unusual construction or site conditions. This is the Architect, Lead and Advise level.
The position resolves competing stakeholder requirements, designs nonstandard architectures, exercises judgment where established labor tables do not fit the work, and serves as the technical escalation point for Solutions Engineer I and II personnel. The Solutions Engineer III also reviews the deliverables of other engineers and develops and recommends reusable architectures and design standards.
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
This position reports to the Solutions Engineering Manager and has no direct reports. Work is assigned through the Solutions Engineering Ticket Request Queue. The Solutions Engineer III escalates to the Solutions Engineering Manager and works closely with Business Development Account Managers, Systems Engineering, Project Management, and the CAD and Design group. Engineering levels are cumulative. This position performs the full scope of Solutions Engineer work across all levels of opportunity complexity; the responsibilities below reflect the highest level of independent work expected of this position.
EXPECTED LEVEL OF INDEPENDENCE
Works as a senior individual contributor and technical authority, providing technical leadership, peer review, mentoring, and escalation support without direct personnel management responsibility. Independently owns government, enterprise, campus, and mission-critical pursuits, and serves as the assigned escalation point for Solutions Engineer I and II personnel.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Discovery & Solution Design
· Lead discovery on complex pursuits and with senior customer stakeholders, and resolve competing or conflicting requirements into a coherent technical solution.
· Design nonstandard and enterprise architectures, including multi-site, campus, cloud, and hybrid deployments, and place devices on plans supporting those designs.
· Design integrations between physical security infrastructure, identity management systems, external databases, and PSIM platforms.
· Evaluate products and technologies against technical requirements, performance, scalability, and lifecycle considerations, and recommend additions to the approved technology list.
· Assist Business Development with initial budgetary numbers on complex and enterprise pursuits.
BOM, Quantities & Scope of Work
Develop Bills of Material and Scopes of Work on complex opportunities, and resolve ambiguous or disputed scope prior to proposal release.
Exercise judgment where established labor tables do not reflect actual site conditions, and document and justify deviations.
Obtain manufacturer and vendor quotes supporting the Bill of Materials, and pursue available discounts and program pricing.
Determine, in coordination with the Operations Manager, the internal-versus-subcontracted approach on complex opportunities, prepare the scope used to obtain subcontractor pricing, and integrate returned…