If you were asked to meet with someone who had the title "solutions architect" ... would you assume the person was pre-sales or post-sales?
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Solution Architect to me is the person who has a perfect mix of technology , architecture and domain level understanding. Many organizations use Solutions Architect for sales purpose but in my opinion “sales engineer “ is the right title if person is involved in sales. When I meet to a person with title “Solutions Architect” then I assume to discuss about technology, process , architecture and domain .
Usually if the meeting is before a purchase of the product/service is done I assume is pre-sales. Otherwise, it depends on the context.
It depends on where he/she works? If it's a services company such as Accenture/NTT, then it's pre-sale, otherwise a systems/application/technology/data architect. An Enterprise architect is a different story anyways.
It does depend on the context of the meeting, and where they were employed. An external solutions architect would likely be pre sales, while internal would be about designing solutions.
Generally I would consider that role to be pre-sales, part of the process that demonstrates alignment of the vendor resources to the requirements of the potential customer.