Senior Principal Chief Architect jobs at Red Hat in United States, Richmond

What you will do:

• Guide customers in building scalable, optimally managed solutions and adaptable to technological improvements using Red Hat technologies.

• Continuously learn, grow, and adapt to new skills and technologies.

• Travel weekly, Monday-Thursday, to client locations

What you will bring:

• Required Experience:

• Active Top Secret SCI clearance, with Polygraph

• Experience with delivering an implementation based on an architectural design

• Demonstrated ability to lead a technical project, including collaborating on project timelines and maintaining project and technical documentation

• Ability to identify stakeholder needs and set expectations regarding project timelines and scope of work

• Experience working collaboratively across diverse teams and stakeholders

• Knowledge and desire to mentor

• Technical Skills:

• Associate or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline

• Technical certifications like Security +, and network+ Experience delivering successful modern cloud platform consulting engagements

• Experience with Linux system administration, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative

• Prior experience with Source code management tools such as Gitlab.

• Experience with or working knowledge of Ansible

• Experience with enterprise cloud solutions like Platform-as-a-Service

• Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes

• It is essential to have some basic knowledge of networking principles such as TCP, DNS, DHCP, IPs

• Broad and deep technical experience with one or more virtualization and cloud technologies like OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, VMWare vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure

• Demonstrated track record of working in a strategic advisory role to senior IT and business executives, including extensive experience presenting to C-level executives at large firms

• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills

After joining Red Hat, You will undergo an intensive customized training program on Red Hat technologies and Services solutions. Here's how your skill set will evolve and what you'll learn during your first year in the role:

In two months, be prepared to join a project team by acquiring the following:

• Understanding of how to build production-ready technical solutions integrated with existing enterprise systems.

• Learn technologies and consulting skills to enhance your abilities through enablements designed and taught by Red Hat experts and certification.

• Through everyday networking and community events, gain exposure and collaboration within Red Hat Services & the more prominent organization.

Within six months, support Services on a project by attaining the following:

• Successful, collaborative delivery of customer projects as a technical lead through expertise in Red Hat’s technologies.

• Knowledge of how a customer use case can be developed into a project plan and how those requirements align with Red Hat’s technologies.

• Continue expanding your knowledge and network, both internal and external, through enablement, communities, customers, and meetups.

Within 12 months, demonstrate technical leadership by accomplishing the following:

• Successfully implementing complex, large-scale solutions in customer environments.

• Active engagement and knowledge sharing with our internal and external communities of practice on lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos.

The salary range for this position is $127,860.00 - $211,080.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

Job Summary:

You will be part of a cohort of interns and have the opportunity to work on multiple projects within Global Engineering while also receiving learning and curriculum on different technologies. These projects and curriculum may include areas such as Ansible, RHEL, OpenShift, AI, and more. You’ll also have the chance to work with technologies like Python, GitHub, Java, Agile, JavaScript, etc.

In this role, you will work in an environment where different perspectives are invited, the best ideas are valued, and people feel empowered to contribute. Freedom and courage are two of our core values, which is why you can practice taking risks and exploring the unknown and developing strengths. Yet being a Red Hatter isn't just about being brave; it's also about demonstrating commitment and sticking to it.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work closely with your mentor to design, develop, and maintain code in Python, Golang or similar programming language

• Add new features, debug, identify, and track issues in Red Hat products (RHEL, OpenShift or other)

• Collaborate with the wider team members and other departments such as Quality Engineering, Designers, Product Management or Documentation team throughout the product cycle

• Network with other talented interns in an inclusive workplace where you can be yourself and thrive

Required Skills:

• Working knowledge of written and spoken English

• Basic knowledge of and passion for Software Engineering, basic knowledge and willingness to use Python, Golang or similar programming language

• Passion, curiosity, and desire to create new things and examine how things work internally

• Willingness to learn and proactively work as a part of a wider team

What you will do:

The Associate Account Solutions Architect orchestrates Red Hat’s overall technical approach for and with the customer across all phases of the customer lifecycle, from value definition to value recognition. Acts as the primary technical trusted advisor for both the customer and the Red Hat Sales team. Communicates the business value and relevance of our solutions to meet the customer's business needs.

• Leads the technical sales conversation and assists in developing the strategy to position the Red Hat’s portfolio to meet customer business requirements.

• Capture the customer’s desired business outcomes and align Red Hat products and technologies as the technical solution.

• Assist customers with understanding how to implement and use Red Hat products through demonstrations, workshops, and discussions.

• Develop integration plans, recommend system designs using Red Hat and partner products, and assist with system design and documentation.

• Identifies and mitigates any technical sales issues.

• Works closely with the Account Executive and Customer Success Executive to define and execute according to the strategy, and to coordinate the extended sales team.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or related role.

• Must have three (3) years of experience with: working in software engineering, consulting, infrastructure management, sales engineering, or a solutions architecture role; Linux system administration; one or more virtualization or cloud providers; and giving technical presentations to small and large groups of business, technical, management, and leadership audiences.

• Must have two (2) years of experience with: one or more public cloud providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or IBM Cloud, and their integration with enterprise customers; hyperscaler services; implementing and deploying Kubernetes and related CNCF landscape projects; and IT architecture management, including creating and following complex architecture implementation plans.

• Domestic travel required up to 40% of the time to customer sites and internal and external conferences. Travel expenses covered by Red Hat, Inc.

The salary range for this position is $127,850.00 - $198,000.00 (inclusive of base pay + target incentive compensation). Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

What you will do:

• Executes and documents technical engagements, as defined by the customer’s Success Plan initiatives, that advance the adoption and growth in consumption of Red Hat products

• Conducts reviews of the customer's environment and applications to ensure they are well-architected following Red Hat product best practices

• Identifies and aggregates technical adoption blockers discovered across multiple customers and their solutions into common patterns and sales play resources

• Be the Voice of the Customer. Share insights and best practices and connect with product leaders to remove technical barriers to adoption

• Be curious and proactive, staying abreast of Red Hat’s ecosystem and technology changes

What you will bring:

• Ability to lead and deliver consultative type customer-facing engagements

• Experience with and practical knowledge of DevOps/Automation tools such as Ansible, CI Tools, Git, Python (or other similar/relevant experience)

• Proficient verbal and written English communication skills, with an ability to convey complex information to customers both clearly and concisely

• Demonstrable presentation and facilitation skills

• Experience in defining and gathering goals, requirements, and determining outcomes, which can be used to plan work to be done with customers to ultimately delivery on customer outcomes

• Willingness to travel within the region, visit customers and partners, attend conferences and other events

• Experience with and intimate knowledge of DevOps/Automation tools such as Ansible, CI Tools, Git, Python (or other similar/relevant experience

• Experience in scripting and coding (especially Python)

• Expert level hand-on experience with AAP

• High-level familiarity with Chef, Puppet, Salt, and others in the space

Significant technical experience in at least one major IT domain, such as

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions

• Linux-based workloads

• Continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipeline

• Network technologies like Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint

• Kubernetes and container-based deployments

• Public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or IBM Cloud

• Windows-based environment management

• InfoSec / Security Operations

Other Requirements:

• Willingness to travel within the region, visit customers and partners, attend conferences and other events

• Any Red Hat certification.

• The ability to self-study and quickly learn and put into practice new topics

The salary range for this position is $129,800.00 - $207,730.00 (inclusive of base pay + target incentive compensation). Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

1. Build the Red Hat Value Practice

• Collaboratively define the vision of customer value across the entire Red Hat customer lifecycle and the value community

• Build and execute strategies to establish a comprehensive value community partnering with internal teams (BD, professional services etc.)

• Establish and evolve a Red Hat value framework and deliverables to help sell the value across the portfolio and scale across customer segments

• Create a knowledge base including a library of reusable value assets, including value maps, benefit models, benchmarking, templates, tools etc.

2. CXO Customer Advisory on ROI and Business Value Achievement

• Directly engage with customer executive teams, helping articulate the strategic and financial impact of Red Hat’s digital transformation message to accelerate Sales cycles

• Develop C-level account strategies, ROI investment justifications, deal structures, commercial proposals, and value realization analysis

• Serve as a key source of market insights into how our customers view the economic benefit of using Red Hat relative to on-prem or competition

• Identify, lead and contribute to the creation of thought leadership (best practices, white papers, workshops, etc.) for pipeline building

3. Sales and Customer Success Counsel

• Act as a trusted advisor to regional Sales management by providing guidance on account strategies and helping prioritize Sales pursuits

• Manage relationships with regional Sales and Customer Success leadership to build effective enterprise Sales best practices

• Enable Sales teams to elevate their executive discussions by facilitating value-focused discovery and delivering business value impact analysis

What You'll Bring:

• 8+ years of detailed business case development, ROI / TCO financial modelling and executive storytelling experience

• Strong experience in Management Consulting or Investment Banking

• Strong skills in developing executive narrative slideware with inputs from multiple internal stakeholders at times

• Experience engaging with C-level executives and complex internal stakeholder groups

• Strong program management and communication skills

• Presentation skills including public speaking, meeting facilitation, and whiteboarding

• Ability to accomodate limited business travel

Would be a Plus:

• Familiarity with selling complex solutions or transformation programs in the cloud infrastructure or platform space

• Prior experience with people leadership

• Bachelor’s degree; Master’s degree in business administration

The salary range for this position is $260,330.00 - $429,590.00 (inclusive of base pay + target incentive compensation). Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

What you will do:

• Capture the customer’s desired technical outcomes and Red Hat’s technical strategy in the Account Plan, including the Success Plan.

• Collaborate with Solution Specialist Architects, Solution Specialist Professionals, industry experts, and other product specialists to coordinate the technical win.

• Engage with product teams to understand technical roadmaps & best practices

• Engage with the partner ecosystem as needed to strengthen the customer value proposition.

• Be the primary technical point of contact for Customer Success.

What You Will Bring:

• 5 years of experience as a sales engineer, consultant, solutions architect, or a relevant role; experience in presales

• Ability to present and have technical and business discussions with C-level executives

• How to translate technical requirements into proposals, presentations, standard demos, workshops, etc. for customers

• Knowledge of UNIX or Linux systems, preferably in Red Hat platform like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Network Satellite, orother related technologies Knowledge of open source cloudInfrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS) and Platform-as-a Service (PaaS) solutions like Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Openshift Container Platform, or related community projects

• Knowledge of technologies like clustering, directory services, and identity management

• DevOps and Application Development concepts, tools and best practices

• Open Practice Library

• Architectural Thinking

• Consultative Selling

• Cross-functional Execution

• Demonstration

• Success Planning

• Technical Account Planning

• Whiteboarding

• Fluent written and verbal communication skills

• Willingness to travel up to 30%

The salary range for this position is $185,590.00 - $296,870.00 (inclusive of base pay + target incentive compensation). Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

Key Responsibilities

• Overseeing projects from initiation to completion, ensuring timely and budget-conscious delivery

• Coordinating multidisciplinary teams to meet deadlines and budgetary constraints

• Regularly engaging with customer and internal senior leadership stakeholders

• Tackling complex problems, analyzing factors, and applying sound judgment for problem-solving

What You Will Do

• Design and lead cross-functional team meetings from support, finance, sales, resource management, and other stakeholders

• Develop, effectively present, and communicate content

• Coordinate and manage the delivery of consulting services for assigned projects and/or programs

• Understand and manage customer expectations for value outcomes and success criteria

• Coordinate with the Resource Management Office to manage project staffing requirements

• Support accounting activities such as project forecasting, timecard reconciliation, burn reporting, and other financial impacts to project

• Assist internal Operations in procuring subcontractors when needed

• Coach and mentor junior-level project and program managers

• Maintain professionalism when problem-solving and resolving issues

What You Will Bring

• 10+ years of relevant program and project management experience

• Knowledge of specific industry program management, project management and technical delivery methodologies like those based on the Project Management Institute, system and software development, product development, or Agile frameworks such as scrum

• Proven experience working as a project and program manager, leading customer-facing IT consulting projects and change initiatives

• Ability to affect, inspect, and adapt company culture

• Demonstrated ability to motivate the project team and individual contributors and mediate conflicts

• Experience using various project management and agile tools, frameworks, and methodologies

• Excellent customer-facing and internal communication skills

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, inclusive of the ability to communicate and integrate with executive level customer personas

• Solid organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to handle multiple priorities

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• Ability to travel frequently to work alongside customers and visit customer sites

• Scrum master, lean, product management, and project management certifications and Computer Science training are a plus

The salary range for this position is $116,270.00 - $191,840.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

● Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

● Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

● Retirement 401(k) with employer match

● Paid time off and holidays

● Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

● Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave