Solution Architect jobs in United States, Virginia, Richmond

Job Description:

Job Description:

This job is responsible for defining the engineering approach within an end-to-end technology stack. This job will align to a technical domain but acts as contributor to multiple cross functional teams. Key responsibilities include engaging in development and production environments to identify and improve performance/capacity issues and creating and ensuring system design technology solutions comply with enterprise standards. Job expectations include providing and contributing to improvements in solution design, testing, and delivery practices.

Responsibilities:

• Participates in solution-driven discussions, such as various Communities of Practice (COPs), contributes to the design of large or highly complex architectural designs, and finds creative solutions through their knowledge of the domain and operational constraints
• Produces detailed designs of infrastructure and application architecture components
• Ensures that execution aligns with product strategy by working with product management, product owners, and other stakeholders, contributing to the technology strategy for their technical domain
• Collaborates with Development and Infrastructure teams to understand technical solutions and provide the performance capabilities required in the application across the technology stack put forward by Solution Engineer Lead
• Mentors and guides more junior Engineers ensuring system design technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Innovative Thinking
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Architecture
• Automation
• Influence
• Risk Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Adaptability
• Application Development
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Production Support

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

As a Capital One Solutions Architect, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving transformations within Capital One Software. In this role, you will provide technical leadership for designing and implementing Salesforce and Integrated application solutions which span across Capital One Software.

Primary Responsibilities:

Architecture & Design

• Own the end-to-end Salesforce architectural strategy across Sales, Service, Revenue Cloud, Marketing, and AI/Einstein use cases.

• Define data models, integration patterns, API frameworks, and governance standards to ensure a scalable, secure, and future-proof platform.

• Balance innovation with technical debt management, ensuring sustainable delivery.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead and mentor Salesforce developers and admins, instilling best practices in coding, design patterns, and DevOps.

• Partner with Product Management to translate business requirements into robust Salesforce solutions.

• Act as a bridge between RevTech, Platform, and System Integrators, ensuring architectural consistency.

Delivery & Governance

• Establish and enforce architectural guardrails across multiple Salesforce orgs and connected platforms (GitHub, OnePipeline, Data Lakes, MDM, AI/ML).

• Oversee CI/CD practices and automated testing strategies for Salesforce releases.

• Ensure compliance with security, data privacy, and audit requirements.

Innovation & Future Readiness

• Drive adoption of AI/Einstein, predictive analytics, and RevTech integrations (e.g., Gong, Crossbeam, HG Insights, ZoomInfo).

• Identify opportunities to enhance customer experiences and revenue outcomes through technology.

• Stay ahead of Salesforce ecosystem advancements and emerging technologies.

The successful candidate will:

• Effectively communicate and build relationships to interact, inform, influence and communicate with key stakeholders at all levels across the company

• Exhibit mastery of facilitation and influence across teams, departments and divisions

• Enjoy the camaraderie, debates, and learning that comes from working with a team of passionate technologists

• See the impact of near term and long term choices, and are great at explaining it

• Possess excellent organizational skills and ability to multitask, while quickly shifting context and priorities

• Have a proven track record for leading and enabling technology, architecture and software engineering activities at enterprise scale

• Be self-motivated and display an unwavering responsibility to deliver high quality results and commitments

• Possess a keen attention to detail and a passion for Architecture, Software Engineering, Technology and Customer Experience

• Have an intellectual curiosity and interest to maintain and acquire new business, technology and architecture skills

• Have a background in implementing AI/Einstein features and integrating third-party RevTech tools.

• Ability to balance strategic architecture vision with hands-on technical delivery.

• Possess strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience managing relationships with system integrators and platform teams.

• Have a proven track record of influencing product roadmaps and aligning technology with business outcomes.

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 8 years experience with Salesforce (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Revenue Cloud, Experience Cloud)

• At least 3 years of experience in an architectural leadership role

• At least 4 years of experience designing multi-cloud data models and scalable integrations (REST, SOAP, Mulesoft, Kafka, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.).

• At least 3 years of experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, OnePipeline, Copado/Flosum)

• ADM 201- Salesforce Certified Administrator, Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant, or Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant certification

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in enterprise data architecture, API management, and identity/security (SSO, OAuth, etc.).

• Strong knowledge of APEX, Lightning Web Components, Flows, and SOQL

• At least one additional Salesforce certification: Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) , Salesforce Application Architect / System Architect, or Salesforce Revenue Cloud Specialist

. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

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

Our AI/ML capabilities are now at the forefront of what’s possible in banking. (e.g., Eno). As we uncovered new challenges along the way, we built and battle tested new capabilities to meet those needs. We’ve open sourced several of the software tools we built (e.g., Cloud Custodian, Hygieia) and forged new partnerships with other digital leaders.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare and deliver technical engagements with enterprise customers including envisioning business and technical solutions, delivering architectural design and rapid prototypes.

• Drive architecture/design reviews focused on business and technical requirements.

• Analyze, define and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware, operating system environment and enterprise system integrations.

• Plan, manage and deliver customer projects.

• Support architecture governance by providing subject matter expertise.

• Work with business and product partners, architects, and other groups to identify technical and functional needs of systems, and determine priority of needs.

• Travel to customer locations as needed to implement products and solutions, develop and nurture customer relationships, and manage key stakeholder communication.

• Enforce company policies in areas of development methodology, architecture, security, change and configuration management, compliance, and HR.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree

• At least 6 years of experience in Software Engineering and Systems Architecture or Technology Solution design

• At least 2 years of experience creating solutions architectures in a public cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Technology

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering

• 5+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect in large/complex organizations

• 5+ years of experience in building and managing infrastructure, databases, networking and CI/CD Tooling (K8s, Artifactory, Harness, Docker, ECS, etc.)

• 8+ years of experience architecting, designing, and/or delivering delivering scalable and decoupled systems in a heavily regulated technology environment

• 3+ years of experience working with internal and external business clients

• 3+ years of experience with AWS concepts and implementations

• 1+ years of experience working on data management platforms in areas such as Data Discovery, Data Classification, Data Lineage and Data Catalog.

• 1+ years of experience with Cryptography and Quantum Computing.

• Experience to engaging, influencing and driving initiatives by partnering with technology executives

• Experience mentoring software engineers or architects

• Experience in a regulated environment (HIPAA, PCI, Privacy, etc)

• Ability to communicate at all levels in the organizations with required technical depth and breadth

• AWS or equivalent certifications (Cloud Practitioner, Solution Architect-Associate, GCP or Azure)

. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

Our AI/ML capabilities are now at the forefront of what’s possible in banking. (e.g., Eno). As we uncovered new challenges along the way, we built and battle tested new capabilities to meet those needs. We’ve open sourced several of the software tools we built (e.g., Cloud Custodian, Hygieia) and forged new partnerships with other digital leaders (e.g., MSFT).

Responsibilities:

• Prepare and deliver technical engagements with enterprise customers including envisioning business and technical solutions, delivering architectural design and rapid prototypes.

• Drive architecture/design reviews focused on business and technical requirements.

• Analyze, define and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware, operating system environment and enterprise system integrations.

• Plan, manage and deliver customer projects.

• Support architecture governance by providing subject matter expertise.

• Work with business and product partners, architects, and other groups to identify technical and functional needs of systems, and determine priority of needs.

• Travel to customer locations as needed to implement products and solutions, develop and nurture customer relationships, and manage key stakeholder communication.

• Enforce company policies in areas of development methodology, architecture, security, change and configuration management, compliance, and HR.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree

• At least 4 years of experience in Software Engineering and Systems Architecture or Technology Solution design

• At least 2 years of experience creating solutions architectures in a public cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Technology

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering

• 3+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect in large/complex organizations

• 6+ years of experience architecting, designing, and/or delivering delivering scalable and decoupled systems in a heavily regulated technology environment

• 3+ years of experience in building and managing infrastructure, databases, networking and CI/CD Tooling (K8s, Artifactory, Harness, Docker, ECS, etc.)

• 2+ years of experience working with internal and external business clients

• 2+ years of experience with AWS concepts and implementations

• Experience to engaging, influencing and driving initiatives by partnering with technology executives

• 1+ years of experience working on data management platforms in areas such as Data Discovery, Data Classification, Data Lineage and Data Catalog.

• 1+ years of experience with Cryptography and Quantum Computing.

• Experience mentoring software engineers or architects

• Experience in a regulated environment (HIPAA, PCI, Privacy, etc)

• Ability to communicate at all levels in the organizations with required technical depth and breadth

• AWS or equivalent certifications (Cloud Practitioner, Solution Architect-Associate, GCP or Azure)

. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.