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Senior Partner Solutions Architect, Strategic Partnerships

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6 days ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaSenior

Base Salary

$115k - $194k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end technical strategy for assigned strategic partners and connect technical requirements with joint business objectives.
  • Translate partner technologies and roadmaps into GitLab integrations, architecture opportunities, product opportunities, and AI agent or model integrations.
  • Resolve complex technical issues across GitLab and partner systems, build prototypes, and support cloud architecture and tool integrations.
  • Own the AI model evaluation process, including evaluation criteria, timelines, early-access coordination, and roadmap recommendations.
  • Design and facilitate partner workshops, architecture reviews, and FinOps sessions.
  • Build business cases that estimate gains, costs, and required resources for joint technical efforts.
  • Bring partner requirements and technical feedback into Product and R&D discussions to influence product design and roadmaps.
  • Coordinate Engineering, Product, FinOps, Finance, Sales, Marketing, and partner technical teams through delivery.
  • Track cloud, AI, and DevSecOps developments and share findings through documentation, reference architectures, the handbook, and technical content.

Requirements

  • Senior experience as a Solutions Architect, Partner Solutions Architect, Partner Engineer, or similar technical professional, preferably with technology partners or alliances.
  • End-to-end understanding of the software development lifecycle, CI/CD, and DevSecOps, with the ability to use GitLab in depth.
  • Hands-on cloud architecture experience with at least one of Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Azure.
  • Working knowledge of AI model evaluation frameworks, agent technology, LLM APIs, agent frameworks, and Model Context Protocol.
  • Experience facilitating technical workshops with senior technical and business stakeholders and building business cases that estimate gains, costs, and resource needs.
  • Ability to work autonomously, identify opportunities, and move work forward without waiting for a project backlog.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical and commercial trade-offs to engineers and executives.
  • Ability to work hours overlapping with EMEA and travel approximately once per quarter.

Benefits

  • Remote work with Eastern Time preferred and other US time zones possible.
  • Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental leave.
  • Home office support.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureGoogle Cloud

Categories

Solutions Engineering
GitLab

About GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that unifies source code management, CI/CD, and security with AI-assisted workflows for software teams and enterprises. It sells cloud-hosted and self-managed subscriptions, plus enterprise features and support. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, GitLab is a public company listed on NASDAQ and is widely used by large enterprises, including many in the Fortune 100.

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