Sr. Solutions Architect

The Sr. Solutions Architect leads delivery for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) engagements, owning outcomes from a delivery standpoint and ensuring quality across what's designed, implemented, configured, and delivered.

This role directs a team of Senior Consultants, setting technical direction, reviewing work, and ensuring the overall engagement stays on track across multiple concurrent client projects.

The Architect is expected to be an expert-level VCF practitioner with real-world experience in enterprise environments, including brownfield and greenfield deployments and lifecycle activities (upgrades/migrations). This is a fully remote role and requires the flexibility to work in various US time zones and the ability to travel up to 20% for client facing activity.

• 7+ years in solutions architecture or enterprise infrastructure delivery and 8-10+ years of progressive technical responsibility

• 10+ years hands-on VMware experience in enterprise environments, with proven VMware Cloud Foundation delivery ownership (VCF v5 required; v9 highly preferred)

• Demonstrated engagement leadership: accountable for delivery outcomes, quality, and execution across design/implementation/configuration

• Ability to direct and mentor senior consultants (typically multiple consultants per architect)

• Strong VCF ecosystem capability: VCF Automation (Aria) and/or VCF Operations as priority skill areas

• Strong foundation in core SDDC domains: virtualization operations, vSAN/storage (SAN), and NSX/virtual networking

• Practical automation competence: PowerShell/PowerCLI (and ability to read/modify scripts) plus at least one IaC tool such as Terraform, Ansible, or SaltStack

• Consulting-grade communication skills to run discovery, document designs, and guide stakeholders through decisions and tradeoffs * Proven hands-on VMware Cloud Foundation Version 9 deployments (fast-track signal)

• "Known in the VMware/Broadcom community" credibility (recognized expert / been-there-done-that profile)

• VMware Kubernetes Services (VKS) experience or strong Kubernetes platform delivery experience

• Network/security specialization: NSX, AVI, vDefend (useful lane-fillers on Lee's teams)

• Private AI foundation exposure (GPU-enabled infrastructure concepts), plus NVIDIA AI certification

• Disaster recovery, backup, and ransomware resiliency solution leadership

• Advanced certifications: VCDX/VCIX/VCAP/VCP (or comparable), and/or cloud certs (AWS/Azure/GCP)