Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Lead Solution Architect role sits squarely in the enterprise SaaS ecosystem, where platform vendors rely on senior technical leaders to translate product capabilities into resilient customer architectures. With responsibility spanning UKI and Benelux and significant travel, the position reflects a consultative, field-facing model common in mature cloud software organisations supporting complex, multi-stakeholder deployments.
From a SaaS career perspective, the role builds durable strengths in solution design, technical strategy, and stakeholder influence across security, networking, and virtualisation domains. It also offers repeated exposure to the operational realities of customer environments, including assessing current state, defining roadmaps, and turning architectural recommendations into actionable programmes. That pattern of work is highly portable across SaaS companies that sell into IT, security, and infrastructure teams.
This listing is best suited to architects who prefer customer proximity over purely internal platform work, and who enjoy ambiguity where requirements are incomplete or novel. It aligns with professionals ready to operate as a regional subject matter expert, contribute to shared standards and best practices, and shape how technical value is communicated to both client leaders and internal teams.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
This role is mapped to our Enterprise Northern region (UKI & Benelux) and will report to the Account Technology Strategist (ATS) leader for that region. Those applying for the role should be based in the UKI or Benelux region. Travel to the office, customers and events is expected as part of the role and can be as much as 60%
Citrix Solution Architects provide customers with best practice guidance to help ensure their Citrix platform is stable, modern, secure and provides long-term sustainable value. When customers want to use more Citrix technology to drive additional value, the Solution Architect validates the current state and requirements, defines the recommended solution architecture and the set of actionable projects to successfully deliver on the objective. Solution Architects are key contributors for defining best practices and knowledge sharing.
Lead Solution Architects
Map to customers with medium importance and/or complexity. They help execute the ATS technical strategy, designing plans for Citrix solutions that retain existing value and create new value. They establish mid-term operational plans for customer technology roadmaps, providing measurable input into new architectural standards and processes that impact the achievement of overall function results.
Create solutions to address a range of potentially undefined and unusual client problems, which may require detailed information gathering and analysis. The challenges being solved often require drawing from prior experience and the collective knowledge of the team. Identifies potential enhancements to existing team processes
Influence client stakeholders and internal leadership on matters of strategic importance. Work to gain acceptance of new architectural concepts, practices, and approaches by clearly articulating the business case being addressed and the underlying technical solution.
Serve as a subject matter expert of Citrix and associated technologies, including DaaS/VDI, Secure Access, Networking, and Enterprise Security, to guide clients and internal teams.
Provide input into internal project initiatives of strategic importance. Ensure knowledge gained is shared within others in the team and beyond, helping to scale lessons learned and leading practices.
About Us:
Citrix and TIBCO recently merged to create Cloud Software Group, now one of the world’s largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done — from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value diverse lived experiences, passion for technology, and the courage to take risks. Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.
Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status), marital status, military service, protected veteran status, political activity or affiliation, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.
If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any part of the application process, please contact us at (800) 424-8749 or email us at
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About Us:
Cloud Software Group is one of the world’s largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done — from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value passion for technology and the courage to take risks. Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.
Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status), marital status, military service, protected veteran status, political activity or affiliation, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.
If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any part of the application process, please contact us via the Bridge portal for assistance.