Associate Principal Consultant

Job Summary

The Red Hat Australia and New Zealand Services team is looking for a Consulting Architect to join us.. In this role, you will help us ensure that our engagements are not just a technology implementation, but an organizational transformation. As a Consulting Architect, you will serve as the lead architect in our engagements, cocreating innovative software solutions using emerging open source technology and modern software design methods in an agile environment. You’ll coach the team and facilitate the design and technical delivery of our solutions, and become the customer trusted advisor by demonstrating thought leadership. As you do so, you’ll create enthusiasm for building great software using principles of open source and agile culture. You'll support everything from the scoping of the professional services engagement to delivering the engagements and providing technical oversight. This role ideally suits a senior architect, directly involved architect with a passion for coaching teams, design, communication, and delivering complex solutions. Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.

Primary Job Responsibilities
- 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
- Scope delivery projects and guide customers through successful pilot and production deployments
- Team up with Red Hat and the open source community to engineer innovation-based software solutions, designed to further accelerate our customers’ success at their transformation journey
- Work as a trusted adviser to our customers and use your critical thinking skills to tackle tough problems in an innovative way - Train and coach team members on technical and non-technical skills
- Present vision, strategy, technology, and roadmaps to executives, technical management, engineers, and operators
- Support presales and post-sales field teams during workshops, proofs of concepts, pilots, and production deployments
- Actively contribute to and guide the creation of reference architectures, design considerations, and best practices
- Assist in the development of standard reusable consulting service offerings, including the definition of tasks, deliverables, and standard estimates

**Required Skills**:

- 10+ years of experience working as a software architect, consulting architect, or in similar roles
- Proven experience architecting, designing, and developing complex customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technology environment - Experience facilitating software design, architecture, and ideation sessions
- Ability to perform customer-facing activities in a fast-paced environment with short timeframes
- Ability to uncover business challenges and develop custom solutions to solve these challenges
- Demonstrated ability to lead a technical project, including collaborating on project timelines and maintaining project and technical documentation
- Experience with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud solutions, including Red Hat's OpenShift Container Platform Experience

with container technologies such as Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes
- Experience with or working knowledge of Ansible automation
- Experience with Linux system administration, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative
- Ability to identify stakeholder needs and set expectations regarding project timelines and scope of work
- Clear understanding of cloud service and deployment models
- Comfortable working with highly distributed teams, including interaction with open source communities
- Ability to study on your own, learn quickly, and put new knowledge into practice
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a related technical discipline
- Willingness to travel up to 50% to customer locations throughout ANZ and also globally on occasion, following Red Hat’s COVID-19 guidelines
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English

The following will be considered a plus:

- Working with some community technologies like Argo CD, Tekton Pipelines, Helm, or Jenkins

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