Principal Chief Architect

About the Job:

Chief Architects serve as a senior level architect that is able to engage in targeted conversations with customers who are representative of their region or industry; in these conversations, a Chief Architect provides a broad view of their technical portfolio and works to identify the business and technology use cases most applicable to their geographic region. 

Successful candidates will have a strong knowledge of Red Hat’s current research and hold an extensive understanding of the competitive landscape, current drivers of customer business growth, and what differentiates Red Hat from key competitors. In addition, Chief Architects should be able to Drive our sales toward common best practices, developing and reusing common code and following the best prevailing practices of open source communities. While a Chief Architect may be engaged in the sales process, their role is primarily focused on building trust and alliance with customers, not on closing sales. 

CA’s will be enabled by the library of portfolio architectures and validated patterns and will be responsible for working with the regional ecosystem of partners as applicable.  The Chief Architect will also work with the Account Teams in the region to solicit the feedback that is most relevant to the region and synthesize/prioritize submissions through the Field Feedback Forum.  

What will you do?

• Serve as a subject matter expert to the SA/SSA community in respective geography, ensuring that architectural patterns are reused in order to create Sales, Support, and Engineering efficiencies.

• Understand both how to define an architecture but also how to code as a reusable GitOps Pattern, utilizing tools like Helm or Ansible.  

• Be able to debug code written by other engineers and, when needed, propose improvements (in the form of pull requests).

• Serve as a key facilitator uniting sellers with Open Source community practices, enabling the sharing of that knowledge inside and outside of our company.

• Participate in Executive Briefing Centre (EBC) sessions to capture future level requirements and report them in a consistent manner through the Field Feedback Forum.

• Review of any technical architecture proposals in the region before they are sent by the Solution Architect or SSA to their customers.

• Understand and articulate the business requirements of customers and partners and what are their drivers for working with Red Hat.

What will you bring?

• Ability to speak, write, and share insights on behalf of Red Hat in a variety of scenarios, including both internal and external audiences (i.e., should be able to serve as a media spokesperson for their geography).

• Strong ability to define and describe complex domain architecture from a logical, functional, and technical perspective.

• Implement the deployment of those architecture following a DevOps and GitOps pattern

• Contribute code/configurations in at least two languages such as Python, Go, Helm, Ansible, Rust, Bash. 

• Strong knowledge of Red Hat’s product portfolio from their domain or specialty perspective.

• Established relationships with Solution Architects in their geography regarding Red Hat products in their domain of expertise.

• Demonstrated success with previous customer implementations; ability to engage and expand product cross-sell with customers over time.

• Demonstrated capability in reuse of existing patterns (avoiding bespoke solutions for each customer) and a healthy modularization practice which enables reusability.

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

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