Posted almost 5 years ago

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.

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Managing Architect to join the world’s leading provider of open source solutions. 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. You’ll work with the Practice Lead to build out a team of architects and consultants that you’ll help to craft a career path for, mentoring them along the way. You’ll work with the Project Management Office (PMO) on building consistent delivery practices for defined solutions in the assigned area. You will represent Red Hat as the leading provider of 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. As a Managing Architect, you’ll contribute towards customer success on project-based engagements, establishing Red Hat as the defining technology company of the 21st century built on open source principles. You won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technologies quickly and having access to all of Red Hat’s training courses will allow you to quickly develop your skills. This is a remote position with weekly travel to customer sites and can be located anywhere in the United States within close proximity to a major airport. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.

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

• Attain an in-depth knowledge of Red Hat’s technologies by taking Red Hat enablement and completing learning paths across at least one of four tracks, be it container native applications, application migration and modernization, business automation, or enterprise integration
• Apply Red Hat expertise and modern application development skills to successfully scope and deliver consulting engagements with our customers
• Begin working through Red Hat’s manager enablement and manage 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’s manager enablement, continue to craft a career path, and mentor consultants and architects reporting to you

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’s application development projects
• Provide leadership and content towards application development center of excellence and promoted standards

• Associate’s or bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline
• Experience leading successful modern software development consulting engagements
• Experience with 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 and experience working in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams
• Applied knowledge of modern software delivery methods like test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), 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 (NA)

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