About the job
The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an Application Development Architect to join our growing Cloud Native Runtimes Practice. In this role, you will lead the design and development of applications that scale to the demands of the modern digital marketplace. You will represent Red Hat as the leading provider of cloud and container technologies, automation, and modern application development techniques. You will lead collaborative efforts with customers and Red Hat consulting teams to build, test, and iterate over innovative applications, and implement migration and modernization strategies. You'll contribute towards customer success on project based engagements by helping modernize the people, process, and technological capabilities of their organization. You won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technologies quickly is crucial. Red Hat offers a wide variety of training courses, development opportunities, and open collaborative culture that will help you get started. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.
What you will do

• Attain in-depth knowledge of Red Hat Application Services technologies and be able to architect them for cloud native solutions
• Apply Red Hat's solutions and modern application development skills to successfully deliver consulting engagements with our customers
• Lead the design and implementation of applications, using modern application development practices and open source emerging technologies including microservices, integration, cloud native architectures, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), automation, and more
• Understand advanced features of our offerings and solutions and apply them effectively on a customer engagement
• Work closely with product business, product engineering, support, and sales teams to ensure an excellent customer experience with Red Hat's solutions
• Communicate comprehensive strategic vision for solutions to application teams and customers
• Contribute lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos to our internal and external communities of practice
• Develop standard frameworks and methodologies to allow for repeatable Red Hat application development projects
• Provide leadership and content toward application development Center of Excellence and promoted standards
• Lead scoping and presales conversations for Red Hat consulting services with our customers
• Deliver demos, presentations, and workshops which help solidify Red Hat as a thought leader in the cloud native development space
• Provide mentorship for Red Hat consultants and customer development teams

What you will bring

• Associates, Bachelor's degree, or higher in computer science or a technical discipline
• Experience leading successful modern software development consulting engagements for cloud native solutions
• Experience implementing container orchestrated solutions using Kubernetes
• Experience designing and implementing full life cycle CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or Tekton
• Significant development and delivery experience with multiple programming languages, including Java, JavaScript, .Net, Quarkus, and Vert.x
• Solid object-oriented skills and applied knowledge of software design patterns
• Experience facilitating software design and design thinking sessions
• Applied knowledge and experience working in agile, scrum, and DevSecOps teams
• Applied knowledge of modern software delivery methods like test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), CI, and CD
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Willingness to travel to customer locations about 30-40 weeks per year on average throughout North America

About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
• Retirement 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.