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Job ID R26_00000711
Team Engineering
Focus Area Presales Engineering
Location Remote - USA Remote
Type Hybrid
Date Posted Feb 10, 2026
Description
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Job Summary
As a Consulting Enterprise Strategist ES supporting Education enterprise and major accounts, you serve as the enterprise-wide multi-practice strategic and architectural authority, guiding complex education-sector organizations through long-range digital transformation. This role represents Security Hybrid Infrastructure Digital Experience and Digital Infrastructure, aligning academic operational and public-mission priorities to scalable IT strategies.
The Enterprise Strategist engages with CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, Presidents, Chancellors, and Superintendents operating within executive-level long-cycle multi-practice sales motions. Acting as the technological strategist for large institution-wide pursuits, helping customers modernize safely while navigating governance, funding, regulatory, and stakeholder complexity.
Your core objective is to align institutional mission and business outcomes with integrated IT strategy, translating educational objectives-such as student success, research enablement, digital equity, safety, resilience, and operational efficiency-into actionable IT roadmaps and multi-year transformation programs.
The Consulting Enterprise Strategist ensures Education customers receive cohesive outcome-driven architectures, not siloed point solutions. This role bridges strategy, architecture, governance, and execution, supporting institutions that operate under shared governance and decentralized decision-making, multi-year budget cycles, and constrained funding models, regulatory, privacy, and compliance requirements, diverse stakeholder communities, academic IT, finance, public leadership.
Enterprise Strategy & Architecture Education
Lead enterprise-wide multi-practice strategy and architectural engagements across higher education systems, large universities, and K-12 districts.
Translate institutional goals-student success, research enablement, digital access, security, resilience, and operational efficiency-into integrated IT roadmaps and future-state architectures.
Design high-level designs (HLDs) and scalable architectures supporting campus, district, or system-wide modernization initiatives.
Executive Engagement & Sales Motion
Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, including CIOs, CISOs, academic, and operational leaders, aligning technology strategy to mission outcomes.
Operate within an executive-level long-cycle multi-practice sales motion typical of Education.
Act as the technical quarterback for complex cross-practice pursuits-driving clarity, alignment, and forward progress across long decision cycles.
Account & Opportunity Leadership
Co-plan strategic Education enterprise and major accounts with CE and SE teams to ensure orchestrated engagement and sustained value delivery.
Shape, qualify, and accelerate large institution-wide opportunities that span multiple practices and funding periods.
Guide partner and ecosystem alignment, including OEMs, cloud providers, and software partners, appropriate for public-sector environments.
Cross-Practice Orchestration
Own alignment across sales, presales, delivery partners, and leadership for multi-practice Education engagements.
Standardize enterprise solution approaches while respecting institutional autonomy and governance models.
Navigate internal processes, approvals, and public-sector procurement dynamics to reduce friction and enable execution.
Business Outcomes & Value Creation
Build multi-year roadmaps, business cases, and formal proposals (SOWs, LOEs, RFP responses) aligned to measurable education outcomes.
Support financial impact and value modeling appropriate for grant-funded, bond-funded, or operating-budget initiatives.
Drive outcomes such as integrated architecture modernization at scale, security posture improvement, digital equity enablement, and operational resilience.
Thought Leadership & Enablement
Act as a thought leader for the Education enterprise strategy, mentoring presales and delivery teams on large-scale institutional engagement.
Represent CDW in executive briefings, workshops, advisory councils, and industry forums relevant to higher education and K-12.
Bridge insights between clients, presales, delivery, and corporate strategy to inform capability evolution and innovation.
What we expect of you
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, and 7 years of experience in IT architecture and engineering spanning at least 2 technology practice areas, or equivalent experience.
3 years of experience designing multi-practice solutions for complex customer environments.
Strong understanding of CDWs portfolio, Cloud applications, data security, modern infrastructure, DevOps, SaaS technologies, and AI.
Proven ability to influence key stakeholders at the executive level, CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, Presidents, Chancellors, and Superintendents, Superintendents, CTO EdTech, Cybersecurity Coordinators, and CBOD.
Demonstrated success building and delivering enterprise technology roadmaps and digital transformation strategies.
Certifications across multiple disciplines, e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect Expert, a plus.
Background in vertical-specific architecture, e.g., Education, HiEd, and K-12, a plus.
Strategic Mindset
Anticipates future trends and implications, translates vision into executable strategies, a plus.
Executive Presence
Communicates with confidence and clarity to influence diverse executive audiences, a plus.
Cross-Domain Expertise
Applies a systems-level view to architecting integrated technology solutions, a plus.
Innovation & Agility
Thinks creatively to develop novel solutions and thrives in fast-paced environments, a plus.
Collaborative Leadership
Works seamlessly across sales, engineering, delivery, and partner ecosystems, a plus.
Outcome-Driven
Anchors all recommendations in measurable client value and business impact, a plus.
Pay range: $121,450 - $170,010 depending on experience and skill set
Annual bonus target of 25 subject to terms and conditions of plan
Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com
Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials
We make technology work so people can do great things. CDW is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education, and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, CDW helps its customers navigate an increasingly complex IT market and maximize return on their technology investments. Together, we unite. Together, we win. Together, we thrive.
CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by state and local law. CDW is committed to fostering an equitable, transparent, and respectful hiring process for all applicants. During our application process, CDWs goal is to get to know you as an applicant and understand your experience, strengths, skills, and qualifications. While AI can help you present yourself more clearly and effectively, the essence of your application should be authentically yours. To learn more, please review CDWs AI Applicant Notice.
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