Senior Solutions Architect

About the role

A solutions architect role focused on guiding customers through initial engagements and into longer term delivery, while leading a team of engineers and improving internal processes.

What you will do

• Serve as the main technical advisor for customers, understanding their goals and challenges
• Lead, coach and grow a group of engineers and assess their technical impact
• Manage proof of concept work and help create demos and product content
• Build and maintain continuous delivery pipelines and deploy, test and troubleshoot packages
• Find and roll out process improvements that raise team efficiency
• Work with other teams on research and new growth strategies

What they look for

• Seven or more years in software engineering, including at least one year managing people
• Strong grasp of containers and orchestration, especially Kubernetes
• Solid background in cloud and on premises system architecture
• Proven record of leading and developing strong engineering teams
• Good communication and persuasion skills for working with stakeholders
• Programming ability in languages such as Python or JavaScript and familiarity with web technologies

Nice to have

• Knowledge of the CNCF ecosystem and its tooling
• Prior experience in growth engineering or digital marketing at a tech startup