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Job Summary:

The Head of Strategy and Pre-sales will lead the strategic growth initiatives and pre-sales activities of the Healthcare & Life Sciences Business Unit. This leadership role is responsible for translating the company’s overarching goals into actionable strategies, managing a team of pre-sales professionals, research engineers, and strategists. You will ensure seamless alignment between business development, product innovation, and client engagement to drive revenue and customer success.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy Development & Implementation:

Translate organizational imperatives into actionable BU-level strategies and execution plans.

Develop and implement a scalable pre-sales framework aligned with business objectives.

Be the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for proactive proposals, RFPs, and RFIs.

Collaborate with sales, product, and practice teams for unified client engagement.

Craft compelling pitches and value propositions for target accounts.

Work across Business Units to deliver comprehensive solutions.

Partner with marketing on campaign strategy and content development.

Ensure alignment with organizational policies and compliance requirements.

Maintain strong product and market knowledge to position solutions effectively.

Continuously optimize pre-sales processes and tools.

Go-to-Market Execution:

Drive strategic deal shaping, win strategies, pricing, and differentiation.

Build detailed account plans aligned with client strategic initiatives.

Provide support materials such as case studies and capability documents.

Enable internal teams on new offerings in emerging tech areas.

Lead & Demand Generation:

Generate leads via direct outreach, marketing campaigns, and partnerships.

Set up and qualify meetings with potential clients.

Support business growth through targeted messaging and proactive engagement.

Reporting & Analytics:

Monitor strategy implementation and BU performance.

Track KPIs including win rates, deal velocity, and client engagement.

Provide regular strategic and operational reports to senior leadership.

Knowledge Management:

Relay prospect feedback to inform product roadmaps.

Stay ahead of market and industry trends.

Oversee creation of whitepapers and thought leadership materials.

Ensure documentation standards for solutions, brochures, and catalogues.

Drive knowledge sharing, training, and certifications across teams.

Team Leadership & Development:

Align team deployment with skillsets and project requirements.

Uphold process discipline and performance standards.

Foster capability development and mentor team members.

Drive performance management, goal setting, and continuous coaching.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; MBA preferred.

15+ years in pre-sales, technical consulting, or sales engineering, preferably in engineering services.

Proven success in strategy implementation and performance tracking.

Strong leadership, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

Deep understanding of the Healthcare & Life Sciences domain.

Excellent communication, problem-solving, and consultative selling abilities.

About us:

Arista Networks was founded to pioneer and deliver software driven cloud networking solutions for large datacenter storage and computing environments. Arista's award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds from 10 to 400 gigabits per second, redefine scalability, agility and resilience. Arista has shipped more than 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Committed to open standards, Arista is a founding member of the 25/50GbE consortium. Arista Networks products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

About this role:

• You will be working with the WiFi team at Arista, developing cutting edge and next generation WiFi solutions in a fast-paced environment. The WiFi team is responsible for the end to end development of the Cloud managed WiFi product portfolio of Arista. This specific position is for the WiFi AccessPoint team.
• As a core member of the AccessPoint team, you will be working closely with relevant teams to understand product requirements, design the solution, build the software and deliver it for final validation and customer deployment.
• You will also keep track of new and emerging technologies and their impact on Arista products, come up with new and innovative ideas to improve and differentiate the product and help Arista become a leading player in the Campus space.
• You will work closely with sales and support teams to push new solutions, understand customer needs and pain points and help resolve escalations.
• You will not be limited to a single aspect of the product, it will be broad encompassing many different aspects including but not limited to developing new Access Points, designing and implementing new features, tracking new technologies and working closely with the sales and customer teams.

Requirements:

• Strong engineering and Computer Science fundamentals

• Expected to have a strong background in software development and good understanding of systems and networking areas with the knowledge of the WiFi area as an added bonus.

• Minimum 4+ years of relevant experience

• Well versed with programming in one of C/C++ languages

• Experience working in a Linux environment, developing applications or Linux drivers

• Proven experience in any of the below:

1. Network device drivers, operating system internals, Kernels, compilers, SOC architecture
2. Experience in developing Wi-Fi features (802.11), WLAN MAC Protocol, system integration, evaluate various performance parameters.
3. User space development for connectivity related products (Wireless Lan access points/ controllers, networking equipment) in one or more of following areas:

• HostAPD, Portal, RADIUS, AAA, Identity and role management, Radsec

• Tunnels, Firewall, Iptables, Flow Classification, QoS, TLS, DTLS Preferred Skills

• Experience with Wi-Fi device drivers on Linux.

• Hands-on experience in working with one or more WIFI chipset platforms

• Good System Level understanding of the Wireless AP functionality

• Experience in developing Wi-Fi features, system integration, evaluate various performance parameters

Resources:

• Arista Cognitive WiFi : https://www.arista.com/en/products/cognitive-wifi https://youtu.be/cT1INdR-xHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olPkCOT3MdA
• Arista Cognitive WiFi Datasheet: https://www.arista.com/assets/data/pdf/Datasheets/CloudVision-Wifi-Datasheet.pdf
• Arista's Approach to Software with Ken Duda (CTO): https://youtu.be/TU8yNh5JCyw
• Additional information and resources can be found at https://www.arista.com/en/

We are seeking an experienced web developer to join our friendly team to participate in the development of the next-generation app.

You will take a lead role in the technical side of our company with room to grow as we continue to grow.

Technologies/Frameworks: PHP, Laravel, Lumen, mySQL/postgres, react,

Skills Required :

- Extensive experience in PHP and Laravel (OOP experience).

- REST APIs and Integrations technologies

- JSON Language and scripting

- Familiarity with Bitbucket (Git), Node

- Database Management tools such as MySQL.

- Comfortable working with JavaScript and jQuery

- Understanding of coding best practices.

What you'll do :

- Work with us to contribute and plan ideas for features and improvements to the platform. Write clean, functional code on back-end to develop new features, integrations and refine existing ones.

- Help to improve our platform by refactoring existing code (PHP/Laravel/JavaScript). Work with, and sometimes manage the work of external contract developers.

• Must have 5-8 years of experience in handling data
• Must have the ability to interpret large amounts of data and to multi-task
• Must have strong knowledge of and experience with programming (Python), Linux/Bash scripting, databases(SQL, etc)
• Must have strong analytical and critical thinking to resolve business problems using data and tech
•  Must have domain familiarity and interest of – Cloud technologies (GCP/Azure Microsoft/ AWS Amazon), open-source technologies, Enterprise technologies
• Must have the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Must have good communication skills
• Working knowledge/exposure to ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Athena, PrestoDB, Jupyter Notebook

• Identity Access Management (IAM)/SailPoint IIQ  Implementation and Governance
• Java development
• Role -Base Access Control (RBAC)
• Custom / OOTB connector development experience
• Integration experience with JDBC, Active Directory, ServiceNow, Mainframe  ACF2