Senior Architect

The Red Hat India Services team is looking for a Consulting Senior Architect to join us in India. In this role, you will help us ensure that our engagements are not just a technology implementation, but an organizational transformation. As a senior 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. 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 to delivering the engagements. This role ideally suits a senior, 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.

What Will You Do

• Deliver successful discovery, analysis, and design workshops for small to medium teams of both 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
• Lead the discovery, architecture, design, and implementation of application prototypes in our delivery of solutions using modern application development practices and emerging open source technologies
• Help us cover domains including microservices, API management, and web-scale architectures, DevOps engineering and application delivery, container-based continuous delivery (CD), i.e., using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, cloud automation, and Everything as Code
• 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 both on technical and non-technical skills
• Present vision, strategy, technology, and roadmaps to executives, technical management, engineers, and operators
• Remain an active coder as this is required during our engagements and maintain deep direct technical knowledge of container management systems (CMSs), application infrastructure, architectures, and development solutions
• 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

• At least 20 years of experience in building and leading large-scale software applications
• Experience in setting up Kafka and platform
• Hands-on experience with Service Mesh technologies, including Istio, for traffic management, security, and observability in microservices architectures.
• Experience in building web applications
• Experience in designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Hands on experience in onboarding application into Kubernetes ensuring all best practices are followed
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Experience in unit/integration testing
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and
• Familiarity UI/UX design
• Must have handled customer directly for more than 10 years
• Knowledge of different version of OpenShift and their usage
• Must have worked with Telecom customers

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