Job summary
The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Managing Architect to join the world's leading provider of open source solutions. In this role, you will collaborate with our Sales team to scope customer engagements as well as lead the design and development of applications that scale to the demands of the modern digital marketplace. You'll be responsible for working with a Practice Lead to build a team of Architects and Consultants that you'll help to craft a career path for and mentor them along the way. You'll be responsible for working with the Project Management Office (PMO) on building consistent delivery practices for defined solutions in the area of influence. You will represent Red Hat as the industry leader in cloud and container technologies, business automation, and modern application development techniques. By collaborating with customers in small teams, you will build, test, and iterate over innovative applications that increase time to value. As a Managing Architect, you'll contribute toward customer success on project based engagements and establishing Red Hat as the defining technology company of the 21st century built on open source principles. You won't be expected to know everything on day one, but your ability to learn new technology quickly and having access to all of Red Hat's training courses will allow you to quickly develop your skills. This is a remote based position which requires frequent travel to customer sites and can be located anywhere in North America within close proximity to an airport and within a state where Red Hat does business.
Primary job responsibilities
At 3 months, be prepared to join a project team and manage a small team of consultants and architects by acquiring the following:

• Attain in-depth knowledge of Red Hat technologies by taking Red Hat enablement and completing learning paths across at least one of four tracks: Container Native Applications, Application Migration and Modernization, Business Automation, or Enterprise Integration
• Apply Red Hat expertise and modern application development skills to successfully scope and deliver consulting engagements with our customers
• Begin working through Red Hat manager enablement and managing a few consultants and architects

Within 6 months, be ready to lead an application development focused project through the following:

• Lead the design and implementation of applications, using modern Java application development practices and open source emerging technologies including microservices, integration, cloud native architectures, and automation
• Work closely with product business, product engineering, support, and sales teams to ensure excellent customer experience with Red Hat's solutions
• Complete Red Hat manager enablement and continue to craft a career path and mentor consultants and architects reporting to you

Within 12 months, be contributing to the solutions by accomplishing the following:

• 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 towards application development center of excellence and promoted standards

Required skills

• Associates or Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a technical discipline
• Experience leading successful modern software development consulting engagements
• Experience in people management and building out a highly functioning team of consulting experts
• Significant development and delivery experience with multiple programming languages, including Java
• Solid object-oriented skills and applied knowledge of software design patterns
• Experience facilitating software design and ideation sessions
• Applied knowledge and experience working in agile, scrum, and DevOps teams
• Applied knowledge of modern software delivery methods like test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), continuous integration (CI), and continuous delivery (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.
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