Lead and grow a regional Solutions Architecture team responsible for complex customer deployments across cloud and on-premises environments. Oversee hiring, coverage, escalations, architecture reviews, infrastructure troubleshooting, workshops, and customer enablement. Partner with Sales, Field Engineering, Support, Product, and Engineering teams to validate solutions, improve adoption, and influence roadmaps. Create reusable Terraform and Helm assets, reference architectures, runbooks, and operational processes while remaining hands-on with Kubernetes, networking, storage, cloud infrastructure, and production incident resolution.

Leads the regional Solutions Architecture organization, including strategy, operating model, staffing, capacity planning, and management development. Establishes scalable deployment standards, automation, infrastructure-as-code practices, SLAs, and enablement programs across cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. Partners with Sales, Support, Product, and Engineering to drive adoption, retention, expansion, and roadmap improvements. Serves as executive technical sponsor for strategic customers and oversees technical delivery forecasting and partner-led models.