Red Hat

Associate Principal Solution Architect

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22 hours ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Develop IT strategies and future-state plans based on a deep understanding of assigned customers and industries.
  • Partner with sales teams to develop account and opportunity strategies and drive deals toward contract award.
  • Conduct customer visits, discovery sessions, and workshops to understand challenges and evaluate Red Hat solutions.
  • Provide technical information and guidance for systems built with Red Hat products and solutions.
  • Deliver proofs of concept, presentations, and demonstrations using product and technical expertise.
  • Build and lead multi-role teams and coordinate with sales and implementation partners on large engagements.
  • Communicate progress and status to all stakeholders and share knowledge and research findings with team members.

Requirements

  • At least five years of experience in presales, sales engineering, or architecture.
  • Experience building and leading multi-role teams to successful outcomes on large projects.
  • Experience participating in system requirements definition, design, implementation, testing, and operations.
  • Demonstrated communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills with engineering, business, and executive stakeholders.
  • Ability to identify and understand business and technical problems and explain how solutions address customer needs and requirements.
  • Knowledge of enterprise solutions and architecture, including cloud, virtualization, containers, storage, RDBMS, ERP such as Oracle or SAP, middleware, clustering, and high availability.
  • Preferred experience in a specific industry or with industry business systems.
  • Preferred experience planning and leading discovery sessions or workshops and communicating with both IT and business departments.
  • Preferred experience proposing, designing, or building solutions with Red Hat products such as OpenShift and Ansible.
  • Business-level English proficiency is preferred.

Benefits

  • Red Hat supports flexible work environments ranging from in-office and office-flex to fully remote, depending on role requirements.
  • Red Hat provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities and promotes an open, inclusive workplace.

Tech Stack

AnsibleKubernetesLinuxOpenShift

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About Red Hat

10,000+ employees

Red Hat builds enterprise open-source software, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift for Kubernetes, and Ansible automation, sold via subscriptions with support, training, and consulting. It serves large enterprises and public-sector organizations running hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure and modern application platforms. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Red Hat operates as an independent subsidiary of IBM.

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