Meet the Team
We are the Sales Strategy, Planning and Operations team, leading the transformation of sales planning activities at Cisco. Our mission is to turn complex, multi-source data into actionable insights that empower sales, accelerate growth, and drive strategic decision-making at all levels. Our team-comprised of analytics data engineers, data scientists and data analysts -collaborates to deliver trusted data insights, impactful dashboards, and advanced data science models.
Your Impact
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Data Foundation: Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and architectures (maximising HANA, Snowflake and external data sources) to enable reliable, timely, and well-structured data for analytics, dashboards, and modeling.
Insight Acceleration: Partner closely with analytics managers, data analysts, and data scientists to deliver insights that directly advise executive sales, planning, and go-to-market strategies.
Business Partnership: Collaborate with business and strategy partners to understand evolving requirements and translate them into technical data solutions that support growth initiatives-such as segmentation, customer insights, and new go-to-market approaches.
Efficiency and Automation: Identify and automate manual or repetitive data processes, scaling analytics capabilities and freeing up analysts for more strategic work.
Data Quality and Reliability: Ensure the integrity, consistency, and accuracy of data pipelines and data models, supporting business-critical Tableau dashboards, Excel workbooks, and data science models.
Innovation and Best Practices: Proto@type and implement new data solutions, championing data engineering standards and experimenting with emerging tools and techniques (e.g., AI, Python, cloud data migration).
Generative AI Integration: Partner with data scientists and AI teams to proto@type, integrate, and operationalize generative AI solutions (such as large language models, text summarization, or automated insight generation) into analytics workflows and business processes.
Multi-functional Enablement: Build relationships across Cisco's data stewards, architects, and business teams to discover new data sources, drive data integration, and contribute to company-wide data initiatives.
Mentorship and Collaboration: Share knowledge, mentor peers, and help foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement across the analytics engineering function.
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, Analytics Engineer, or similar role, with a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field
Proven success in designing and maintaining scalable data architectures supporting sales, marketing, or business analytics
Strong expertise in SQL or Python and experience with major relational database technologies (SAP HANA, Snowflake, etc.)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting high-impact projects such as segmentation, unified customer definitions, or go-to-market strategy development
Cloud data migration and AI/ML solution prototyping experience
Practical knowledge of prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or deploying generative AI models in production
Ability to communicate technical concepts to business collaborators and influence data-driven decisions
Experience working with generative AI models and tools (e.g., OpenAI, Azure AI, Google Vertex AI, or similar) for data enrichment, insight generation, or workflow automation
Experience collaborating with AI or data science teams to design, implement, and integrate generative AI solutions into business analytics environments
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
The starting salary range posted for this position is $183,800.00 to $263,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.
Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$183,800.00 - $303,100.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$163,600.00 - $269,800.00
For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
