Senior Principal Chief Architect

Chief Architects serve as a senior level architects that can 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.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Skills

• Experience with cloud-native architecture, microservices, container orchestration, and hybrid cloud platforms
• Must have deep experience with application networking and security, and a good understanding of concepts and tools such as service mesh, mTLS, container networking interface, SPIFFE/SPIRE
• 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, or Bash.

Experience Required

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

The salary range for this position is $189,600.00 - $312,730.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

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