Senior Solutions Architect

Senior Solutions Architect

ABOUT WIND RIVER 

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.  

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world.  Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones, including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon, and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone. 

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software-defined world. 

 
YOUR ROLE

Wind River is seeking an exceptional Senior Solutions Architect to join our Partner Solutions team. In this role, you will identify new opportunities, help shape our strategic vision, and contribute to building the next generation of products that drive innovation across the enterprise and at the edge.

This is a pivotal position requiring a rare combination of deep technical expertise, strong business acumen, and outstanding communication skills. The ideal candidate will lead adoption across key industry verticals, architect sophisticated solutions, and serve as a trusted technical advisor to both internal stakeholders and external partners.

Some travel is required

In your daily job, you will:

• Technical Leadership: Act as the subject matter expert in emerging markets and technologies, offering guidance to the sales team, clients, and internal stakeholders.
• Solution Architecture: Design and architect sophisticated, scalable solutions to solve critical business challenges and drive value for our clients and Wind River. Clearly understanding customer use cases and pain points.
• Strategic Client Engagement: Collaborate with C-level executives and senior technical leaders to align emerging solutions with their strategic goals.
• Advanced Demonstrations: Create and deliver advanced technical demonstrations and proofs of concept that highlight Wind River’s capabilities today and in the future.
• Competitive Analysis: Develop a deep technical understanding of our markets and competitive landscape, enabling clear articulation of our differentiated value proposition.
• Product Development Influence: Work closely with Product and R&D teams to provide market insights and client feedback, shaping the product roadmap.
• Technical Sales Strategy: Help develop and implement technical sales strategies that drive value to Wind River and differentiate Wind River from the competition.
• Research, design, and write requirements where required. 
• Thought Leadership: Develop and deliver high-quality external content—including white papers, blogs, presentations, and conference talks—to showcase expertise and promote our solutions.
• Investigate new technologies and techniques, and research ongoing industry developments.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE 

Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:

• Experience: 10+ years in technical sales engineering for embedded software and cloud technologies at the edge, demonstrating both technical and business acumen.
• Technical Expertise: Strong background in operating systems preferred (enterprise Linux, embedded Linux, RTOS, mixed-criticality), including boot, kernel, drivers, and performance tuning. Knowledge of middleware and runtimes supporting enterprise and edge workloads (e.g., container runtimes Docker, container