App Dev Architect

The Red Hat Services team is looking for an App Dev Architect to join us. In this role, you will focus on promoting the adoption of Red Hat Technologies through migration or modernization of customer environments. You’ll work closely with the Consulting, Sales, and Presales teams to achieve these goals. You will serve as a customer advocate to architect the right solutions and ensure their implementation in an innovative and reliable manner.

Work Conditions
Flexible work environments, including in-office, office-flex, or fully remote, depending on the requirements of the role.

What you will do

• Deliver successful discovery, analysis, and design workshops for small to medium teams of technical and non-technical backgrounds that shape and influence customer use cases and architecture design decisions.
• Team with customers to lead the design and implementation of applications using modern AppDev practices and open source technologies, covering domains such as:
  • Microservices, API management, and web-scale architectures
  • DevOps engineering and application delivery
  • Container-based continuous delivery
  • Cloud automation, and everything-as-code
• Apply analysis and define modernization strategies from Red Hat’s Application Services portfolio (e.g., Quarkus, Fuse, KNative, Istio, 3Scale, Keycloak).
• Scope delivery projects and guide customers through successful pilot and production deployments.
• Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat's services capabilities and promote repeatable customer engagements.
• Address the customer’s technical, development, and strategic IT requirements as the main point of contact for Red Hat’s professional services.
• Use industry practices and Red Hat's policies and procedures to solve diverse problems.

What you will bring

• 7+ years of experience in an application architect, solutions architect, enterprise architect, or architect consulting delivery role.
• Proven record of working in a strategic advisory capacity to senior IT operations and engineering professionals and business executives.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills; extensive experience presenting to C-level executives.
• Comfortable working with highly distributed teams and interacting with open source communities via various communication tools.
• Solutions sales experience in an environment with multiple products and services.
• Background in architecting and designing complex customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technology domain.
• Extensive knowledge of OpenShift or other Kubernetes solutions.
• Experience running microservices based on container runtime in private, public, and hybrid clouds.
• Experience in application development, modernization, and enterprise application architecture, including microservices.
• Experience delivering applications to production in popular programming languages (Java, Python, NodeJS, .NET, C++).
• Development experience with Microsoft .NET is a plus.
• Experience with configuring and consuming modern application delivery tools in development and deployment of applications.
• Good presentation and communication skills in English.
• Knowledge of methodologies related to next generation application migration and modernization, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), or agile and DevOps practices.
• Ability to quickly embrace and understand new technologies and complex topics.
• Multiple years of experience focused on application development, maintenance, and support including supporting infrastructure.
• Proven ability to work with distributed cross-functional teams to achieve customer success.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• Ability to study and quickly learn new topics; passion for open source, software, tooling, and automation.
• Experience across one or more vertical industry areas is a plus.

Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.