Global Principal Senior Specialist, Solution Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Drive technical sales, client architecture, and partner ecosystem integrations for Red Hat Lightwell.

• Assist Lightwell sales by providing demonstrations and integrating with modern DevSecOps pipelines, shift-left security frameworks, and zero-downtime deployment engines.

• Serve as the primary technical authority during enterprise client engagements.

• Assess partner integrations and establish software supply chain security standards.

• Convert field feedback into actionable Requests for Enhancement for product engineering.

• Collaborate with regional Tech Sales leadership, account managers, and consulting teams on architectural discovery, technical validation, POCs, and strategies for technical wins.

• Create technical responses, architectural designs, and security compliance documentation for RFPs and enterprise bids.

• Design enterprise pipeline architectures that integrate build tools, artifact repositories, network security, and security scanners.

• Act as a subject matter expert and evangelist through customer forums, industry events, and executive meetings with customers.

• Develop, curate, and present technical demos, videos, architectural blogs, and co-branded marketing materials.

• Outline architectures for software supply chain transparency using SBOM, VEX, and OSV.dev.

• Build and promote integrated Red Hat solutions on OpenShift, Ansible, RHEL, and Lightwell.

• Work with ecosystem and marketing teams to create GTM content kits, provide technical integration guidance, and establish knowledge bases.

• Create feedback loops to transform onboarding obstacles and RFEs into prioritized engineering roadmaps.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in enterprise software engineering and solutions architecture, particularly in technical presales, solution selling, or client-facing consulting.

• Strong expertise in enterprise backend development with Java (Spring Boot/Jakarta EE) or Python (FastAPI/Django).

• In-depth technical knowledge of the Red Hat ecosystem (OpenShift, Ansible, RHEL) and cloud-native Kubernetes architectures.

• Practical experience with supply chain security standards (SLSA framework, SBOM standards, VEX, OSV.dev).

• Proven ability to perform technical validation, develop comprehensive RFP responses, articulate commercial value, present to large audiences, and guide complex client organizations through DevSecOps transformations.

• Required qualifications include proficiency in Java and/or Python.

• Familiar with Red Hat OpenShift (ROSA, ARO, OCP), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Kubernetes (K8s), Helm, Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Pulumi.

• Knowledge of tools such as JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, AWS CodeArtifact, GitHub Packages, Sonar/SonarQube, Checkmarx, Fortify, Sonatype Lifecycle, Snyk, Black Duck, Dependabot, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks/Prisma Cloud, Cloudflare, HashiCorp Vault, GitGuardian, Trivy, Aqua Security, and Sysdig.

• Understanding of SPDX, CycloneDX, Syft, OWASP Dependency-Track, OpenVEX, DefectDojo, Sigstore, Cosign, in-toto, and SLSA compliance.

• Familiarity with Spring Boot, Jakarta EE, Maven, Gradle, JaCoCo, Testcontainers, FastAPI, Django, Poetry, Pipenv, Pytest, Tox, Black, and Mypy.

• Experience in creating technical validation guides, architectural blueprints, RFPs/RFIs, value engineering, discovery workshops, ArgoCD, Flux, Spinnaker, blue/green and canary deployments, RFE prioritization, LW-STAM handoffs, CSAT tracking, and RCA.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Flexible Spending Account for healthcare and dependent care.

• Health Savings Account for high deductible medical plans.

• Retirement 401(k) with employer matching.

• Paid time off and holidays.

• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents.

• Leave benefits that include disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave.

• Employee stock purchase plan.

• Family planning reimbursement.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Transportation expense account.

• Employee assistance program.