Posted about 5 years ago

Posting date 9 hours ago(4/4/2019 4:16 AM)

Company description

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Job summary

Come work for the worlds leading provider of open source solutions. The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Managing Architect to join us. In this role, you will collaborate with our sales team to scope customer engagements and lead the design and development of applications that scale to the demands of the modern digital marketplace. Youll be responsible for working with a practice lead to build out a team of architects and consultants and work with the Project Management Office (PMO) on building consistent delivery practices for defined solutions. You will represent Red Hat as the industry leader in cloud and container technologies, business automation, and modern application development techniques. By collaborating with customers in small teams, you will build, test, and iterate over innovative applications that increase time to value. You won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technology quickly and having access to all of Red Hats training courses will allow you to quickly develop your skills. This is a remote position which requires frequent travel to customer sites and can be located anywhere in North America within close proximity to an airport and within a state where Red Hat does business.

Primary job responsibilities

At 3 months, be prepared to join a project team and manage a small team of consultants and architects by acquiring the following:

Attain in-depth knowledge of Red Hat technologies by taking Red Hat enablement and completing learning paths across at least one of four tracks including container-native applications, application migration and modernization, business automation, or enterprise integration

Apply your Red Hat expertise and modern application development skills to successfully scope and deliver consulting engagements with our customers

Begin working through Red Hat manager enablement and managing a few consultants and architects

Within 6 months, be ready to lead an application development-focused project through the following:

Lead the design and implementation of applications, using modern Java application development practices and open source emerging technologies including microservices, integration, cloud-native architectures, and automation

Work closely with product business, product engineering, support, and sales teams to ensure excellent customer experience with Red Hat's solutions

Complete Red Hat manager enablement and continue to craft a career path and mentor consultants and architects

Within 12 months, be contributing to the solutions by accomplishing the following:

Communicate comprehensive strategic vision for solutions to application teams and customers

Contribute lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to our internal and external communities of practice

Develop standard frameworks and methodologies to allow for repeatable Red Hat application development projects

Provide leadership and content toward the Application Development Center of Excellence (CoE)

Required skills

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

Experience leading successful modern software development consulting engagements

Experience in people management and building out a highly functioning team of consulting experts

Significant development and delivery experience with multiple programming languages, including Java

Solid object-oriented skills and applied knowledge of software design patterns

Experience facilitating software design and ideation sessions

Applied knowledge of and experience working in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams

Applied knowledge of modern software delivery methods like TDD, BDD, or continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD)

Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills

Willingness to travel to customer locations about 30-40 weeks per year on average throughout North America

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