Senior Principal Chief Architect Red Hats Field CTO (London Office or UK remote)
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Job description
As a member of Red Hats Field CTO organization Chief Architects serve as senior level architects and strategists engaging with technology leaders in enterprise-scale organizations and across our ecosystem of partners to explore alignment between their business goals and technology use cases and Red Hats broad portfolio of offerings. Chief Architects leverage the credibility of their own experience knowledge of Red Hats offerings and roadmaps to become a trusted representative of Red Hats message whether in a small meeting or on stage in front of a large Architects synthesize and represent feedback from these engagements as input into Red Hats strategic planning processes and as education to Red Hats global field teams on emerging trends and needs across our customers and ecosystem of partners.
This Chief Architect position will focus on the UK and EMEA but also with Global reach as part of the global engineering team., * Represent Red Hats strategic message in meetings and briefings with customers Executive Briefing Center (EBC) sessions professional and technology communities interviews with media analysts and on stage at public events.
- Understand and articulate the innovative vision and business requirements of customers and partners identify the drivers and opportunities for working with Red Hat and provide technical and business value guidance in alignment with the Red Hat portfolio and ecosystem of partner offerings
- Serve as a subject matter expert to Red Hats Technical Sales community in a specific geography industry or technology area leveraging the library of architectural patterns to create Sales Support and Engineering efficiencies.
- Aggregate define and capture valuable insights and efforts produced during engagements with customers partners and communities as reusable patterns including code configuration documentation and enablement in written and video formats.
- Represent the aggregate voice of enterprise customers as part of Red Hats strategic planning processes using verified and documented stories from customer and community engagements to help justify proposed investments.
- Enable the use of Open Source community practices as a model for collaboration inside and outside Red Hat.
- Review complex technical architectures when requested by Solution Architects in the field helping validate technical and business aspects of the proposed solution.
Requirements
Successful candidates will bring experience in broad technology architecture in one or more industries in both traditional and emerging IT practices and experience on the use of AI and AI infrastructure. Candidates should have a strong knowledge of Red Hats portfolio of offerings and differentiation in the competitive technology landscape. The selected candidate will be expected to gain an understanding of and ability to represent Red Hats research and emerging technology areas. Chief Architects support Red Hats sales process through the creation curation and education of common patterns defined through interactions with the broad set of customers and ecosystem of partners. While Chief Architects are engaged in the sales process the role prioritizes engaging in relationships built on trust and exchange of mutually beneficial value not on closing sales., * Hands-on knowledge of Red Hats product portfolio in development or production scenarios.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate in teams and across teams building relationships based on trust and sharing of knowledge.
- Demonstrated ability to solve meaningful problems using multiple technologies and practices and document and communicate the solution to a team / organization for sustainment and reuse
- Ability to communicate clearly and confidently in spoken written and visual forms both live and recorded at scale ranging from individual conversations with executives and media to large public audiences.
- Ability to discover and understand functional business requirements across various industries and map back to appropriate technologies and practices from Red Hat and across our ecosystem of partners.
- Ability to define and describe complex domain architecture from a logical functional and technical perspective and document these architectures using tools that support both reuse of the pattern and deployment according to common GitOps / DevOps practices.
- Ability to capture and collaborate on reusable architectural patterns in formats ranging across written documentation slides diagrams code and / or configurations using tools appropriate for the type of architecture format and audience.
- Strong understanding of open source and community models of collaboration.
- Act as technical leaders demonstrating those qualities Red Hat values in field-facing staff providing mentorship and continuously improving the organisation.
- Strong background and extended experience in the integration of AI with traditional application and / or the infrastructure required to run complex and advanced AI projects, Kubernetes,S3,Google Cloud Platform,Cassandra,System Architecture,Redshift,AWS,Cloud Architecture,NoSQL,UML,Kafka,Distributed Systems
