Principal Account Solution Architect

About The Job:

You will use your technical knowledge, leadership skills, industry expertise and trusted relationships at T-Mobile across multiple network projects. The Red Hat North America Telco team is looking for a Principal Solutions Architect to join us in Seattle WA. In this role, you will be a trusted advisor as Red Hat’s account technical leader, responsible for working with T-Mobile and other strategic partners as they build their next generation ORAN and Core networks, OSS/BSS modernization and virtualization migrations in IT. You will provide leadership across Red Hat’s technical teams including adoption and new projects. You will create solutions and advocate compelling recommendations to T-Mobile, guiding them to adopt our innovative open source technology. To achieve this, you’ll need passion for open source, extensive experience with Telco network architecture and strong leadership skills.

What You Will Do:

Represent Red Hat as a trusted advisor and chief architect across all T-Mobile functions and teams. 

• Build trusted relationships with T-Mobile’s technical leadership, key architects, and project leadership

• Provide architecture recommendations for complex network solutions

• Represent Red Hat with key project teams at T-Mobile, coordinating access to our Engineering and BU functions as needed.

• Maintain deep understanding of customer environments and use cases and be the advocate for customer priorities across Red Hat technical functions

• Sell the value of Red Hat technology and achieve technical closure across customers Technical Decision Points (TDP)

• Provide technical account management

What You Will Bring:

12+ years of experience as a telco industry solutions architect with extensive mobile network experience

• Relationships within T-Mobile and extensive understanding of T-Mobile’s network environments and strategic projects.

• Past experience as in technical leadership role including lead architect, Account Technical Leader, or similar

• Excellent communication, presentation, and documentation skills

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline

The following is considered a plus:

• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)

• Experience with Red Hat or competitive solutions, specifically container technology, automation, and active involvement in open source communities

• Experience working in the Telco ecosystem

• Experience calling on T-Mobile; relationships at T-Mobile

Pay Transparency

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About Red Hat

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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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