Strategic Solutions Architect

Job Overview
A highly skilled professional will play a key role in transforming customer challenges into innovative solutions. The successful candidate will be part of an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities and dedicated to creating world-leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions.
This position involves contributing to industry-leading offerings that empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. The candidate will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your Role And Responsibilities
1. Support Strategic Business Initiatives: Contribute to the development and execution of go-to-market motions that solve real-world customer problems and showcase the power of solutions working together.
2. Design Technical Solutions: Develop reference architectures, implementation frameworks, and validated integrations across multi-cloud, hybrid, and mainframe environments under guidance from senior team members.
3. Execute Cross-functional Collaboration: Work effectively across Product, Sales, Engineering, Marketing, and Partner teams to support execution of integration and GTM initiatives.
4. Provide Technical Guidance: Serve as a technical resource to field teams, partners, and customers—providing guidance on solution design, enterprise architecture, and implementation best practices.
5. Contribute to Innovation: Identify emerging market trends, integration patterns, and enterprise requirements to support product strategy and roadmap alignment with business initiatives.
6. Develop Technical Assets: Create technical content including reference architectures, solution briefs, implementation guides, and documentation that enable scale and support technical leadership.
7. Support Product Strategy: Gather market signals and customer feedback to contribute to product strategy discussions and development roadmaps, particularly for enterprise-scale implementations and multi-product integrations.
8. Enable Teams and Partners: Provide technical support across the Solutions Architecture and SE organizations; participate in internal communities of practice and contribute to reusable playbooks.
9. Technical Advocacy: Participate in technical thought leadership through blog posts, technical presentations, and strategic customer engagements.
10. Drive Customer Outcomes: Work with stakeholders to support transformation success criteria and help demonstrate measurable business impact from integrated solutions.

Preferred Education
No specific degree is required for this role.

Required Technical And Professional Expertise
1. Experience:
a. Strong background in enterprise architecture, technical consulting, or pre-sales engineering roles.
b. Proven experience leading complex technical initiatives and cross-functional teams.
c. Experience with technical integration efforts across multiple vendors or portfolios, preferably including IBM or RedHat.
2. Technical Leadership & Strategy:
a. Demonstrated success defining and executing go-to-market strategies for technical solutions.
b. Proven ability to influence without authority and lead through technical credibility.
3. HashiCorp Expertise:
a. Deep experience architecting and delivering solutions using at least two HashiCorp products (Vault, Terraform, Consul, Nomad) and/or related technology solutions.
b. Advanced understanding of multi-product integrations and enterprise-scale implementations.
4. Integration & Infrastructure Depth:
a. Experience integrating modern infrastructure tooling with legacy systems (e.g., mainframes) or complex hybrid architectures.
b. Practical experience with cloud and on-premise infrastructure, automation, and developer platform operations.
5. Cross-Functional Collaboration:
a. Proven ability to collaborate across Product, Engineering, and Sales to bring new solutions to market.
b. Skilled in translating customer needs into technical and business solutions.
6. Communication & Enablement:
a. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
b. Track record of developing content for technical and executive audiences—architecture diagrams, solution briefs, presentations.

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