Job Description

About the job

The Red Hat India Services team is looking for a Consulting Architect to join us in India. In this role, you will help us ensure that our engagements are not just a technology implementation, but an organizational transformation. As a Consulting Architect, you will serve as the lead architect in our engagements, cocreating innovative software solutions using emerging open source technology and modern software design methods in an agile environment. You’ll coach the team and facilitate the design and technical delivery of our solutions. As you do so, you’ll create enthusiasm for building great software using principles of open source and agile culture. You'll support everything from the scoping to delivering the engagements. This role ideally suits a senior architect, directly involved architect with a passion for coaching teams, design, communication, and delivering complex solutions. Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.

What you will do

• Deliver successful discovery, analysis, and design workshops for small to medium teams of technical and non-technical backgrounds that shape and influence customer use cases and architecture design decisions
• Scope delivery projects and guide customers through successful pilot and production deployments
• Lead the discovery, architecture, design, and implementation of application prototypes in our delivery of solutions using modern application development practices and emerging open source technologies
• Help us cover domains, including microservices, API management, and web-scale architectures, DevOps engineering and application delivery, and container-based continuous delivery (CD), e.g., using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, cloud automation, and Everything as Code
• Team up with Red Hat and the open source community to engineer innovation-based software solutions, designed to further accelerate our customers’ success at their transformation journey
• Work as a trusted adviser to our customers and use your critical thinking skills to tackle tough problems in an innovative way
• Train and coach team members on technical and non-technical skills
• Present vision, strategy, technology, and roadmaps to executives, technical management, engineers, and operators
• Remain an active coder as this is required during our engagements and maintain deep direct technical knowledge of container management systems (CMSs), application infrastructure, architectures, and development solutions
• Support presales and post-sales field teams during workshops, proofs of concepts, pilots, and production deployments
• Actively contribute to and guide the creation of reference architectures, design considerations, and best practices
• Assist in the development of standard reusable consulting service offerings, including the definition of tasks, deliverables, and standard estimates

What you will bring

• 10+ years of experience working as a software architect, consulting architect, or in similar roles
• Proven experience architecting, designing, and developing complex customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technology environment
• Experience facilitating software design, architecture, and ideation sessions
• Ability to perform customer-facing activities in a fast-paced environment with short timeframes
• Ability to uncover business challenges and develop custom solutions to solve these challenges
• Working knowledge of object-oriented design, API design, and design patterns applicable to modern software development
• Applied knowledge of working with agile culture, implementing frameworks like scrum or XP
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or other container tools
• Proven experience with software development, including languages, systems, and frameworks like Java, Spring, Quarkus, Python, JMS, Kafka, SQL, NoSQL, and Redis or Infinispan
• Working knowledge of database design
• Applied knowledge of DevOps culture and practices like test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), continuous integration (CI), and CD, and automated testing
• Clear understanding of cloud service and deployment models
• Comfortable working with highly distributed teams, including interaction with open source communities
• Ability to study on your own, learn quickly, and put new knowledge into practice
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a related technical discipline
• Willingness to travel up to 50% to customer locations throughout India and also globally on occasion, following Red Hat’s COVID-19 guidelines
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English

The following will be considered a plus:

• Experience with or knowledge of Red Hat’s technologies like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat Fuse, Red Hat 3Scale, Red Hat AMQ, or Red Hat AMQ Streams (Kafka)
• Working with some community technologies like Argo CD, Tekton Pipelines, Helm, or Jenkins
• Working with application and infrastructure monitoring
• Experience with or knowledge of JavaScript, Golang, Python, or Shell Scripting
• Experience with or knowledge of technologies AngularJS, React.js, and Vue.js

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About Red Hat

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