Application Development Architect - Solutions & Tech Practices LATAM

As an Application Development Architect, you will lead technical validation (scope of work & services proposals) and prototyping based on Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Application Services. You will then help our customers streamline their enterprise application development with a focus on cloud-native technologies and help them continuously improve feature releases. 

This is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about learning new technologies and expanding their expertise while visiting clients throughout LATAM. The Solutions & Tech Practices team is focused on adopting emerging technologies and cascading knowledge to the region.

What you will do:

•  Able to design and deliver a standard solution implementation alone - Co-leads delivery for one product in a standard project

•  Contributes to architectural design translation and takes full ownership for individual tasks in a complex project

•  Assists in project planning and drives the team towards the goals that project leadership has put in place 

•  Plays a key role in managing customer expectations 

• Can adapt their individual project tasks as customer environment issues come up 

• Can clearly articulate customer benefits of Red Hat technologies, services, and products 

• Trusted advisor to technical Red Hat and customer resources 

• Identifies future opportunities for other Red Hat products/services for their customers and alerts sales team 

• Actively guides consultants and associate consultants on their teams and provides feedback about their performance

• Recognizes leadership opportunities on their own and is willing to take them on 

• Can confidently discuss the decisions of the team with leadership 

• Handles crucial one-on-one conversations with tact and facilitates positive resolutions

• Able to explain their technical knowledge to non-technical audiences

• Capable of presenting to customers, general public, or internal audiences in their area of expertise

•  Maintains Red Hat messaging in all communications 

•  Has a few certifications related to their area of expertise (not limited to Red Hat certifications) 

•  Actively consumes Red Hat advanced level training content (and/or pursues technical learning related to their projects)

• Keeps up to date on new Red Hat training as it is updated 

•  Embraces growth mindset in alignment with their yearly technical goals

• Be pioneer, try new technologies and self-study is a must

What you will bring:

• 6+ years of experience with and advanced knowledge of middleware technologies, including enterprise web or middleware development project experience with application integration using products such as Camel, Kafka, Quarkus, Keycloak, API Management on Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes

•  6+ years of experience working directly with enterprise stakeholders and architects on a range of development and deployment projects 

• Consulting and people skills 

•  Experience providing technical leadership to a small team 

•  Experience defining solutions architectures and designing, implementing, and troubleshooting large-scale workable solutions 

•  Knowledge of software development methodologies, object-oriented design, and development principles, including enterprise integration and software design patterns 

• Understanding of Java frameworks such as Quarkus/ Spring boot. 

• Knowledge of DevOps or continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD) technologies like Tekton and Argo CD 

• Understanding of automation and scripting tools like Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

• Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time to customer locations throughout LATAM. 

• Professional level of English, Spanish and Portuguese is required to assist LATAM customers & connect with global teams