Senior Solution Architect

The Red Hat Tech Sales team is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to guide the growth and development of Red Hat's business in the market in Brasilia-DF, Brazil. In this role, you will discover and analyze our customers' business and technical needs and collaborate with the sales and technical delivery teams to help our customers invest wisely in the right solutions from Red Hat.As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will need to have excellent communication and people skills, as you'll be a major part of the experience our customers have with Red Hat. We'll also need you to have a balance of technical expertise, passion for open source, and thorough understanding of business drivers and IT problems faced by enterprise customers. You'll build relationships with customers, account managers and product teams to design and architect new solutions using Red Hat portfolio; you'll demonstrate the ability to connect technology with measurable business value for Public Sector customers. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges in order to drive revenue growth and Red Hat awareness. In the evangelist part of the role, you may be asked to speak at events and technical forums to everyone from CIOs to user groups about Red Hat solutions. This job requires an appetite for learning, internal motivation, and good time management skills to achieve Red Hat's goals.What you will do:Work aligned with Account ManagerDiscover opportunities and present technical solutions to customers aligned with their business goalsProvide timely presales technical support to the sales team through development of compelling proposals and target architectures that solve customer business problems, including Red Hat portfolio offerings, consulting services and trainingBuild relationships with customers and partners to gain an extensive understanding of their business and IT environments, allowing the sales team to best match Red Hat's offerings and solutions to address customer needs and requirementsDemonstrate ownership of the technical relationships and technical sales cycle within a set of named accounts in your territoryUse your Red Hat solutions knowledge to provide technical expertise to sales staff, customers, and partners through sales presentations, customer workshops, demonstrations of our offerings, evaluations, and proofs of concepts (PoCs)Research and write the responses to technical sections of RFIs, RFPs, and RFQsCommunicate value, progress, and status of sales opportunities to all stakeholdersEnsure revenue and new business quotas and service objectives are met while maintaining a high level of satisfaction among prospective and existing customersWhat you will bring:3+ years of experience in complex sales processesExcellent presentation skills; ability to present to small and large groups of mixed business, technical, management, and leadership audiencesRecord of developing relationships at engineering, commercial, and executive levels throughout large enterprise IT organizationsUnderstanding of complex enterprise solutions and architecturesKnowledge across Red Hat's solutions categories in order to appropriately support aligned customers or domainsDemonstrated ability to interpret technology and market trends as a foundation for the roadmaps for our offerings and technologiesPresales and sales experience in consultative sellingExcellent written and verbal communication skills in EnglishWillingness to travel to deliver on customer expectationsExperience with container platforms like Kubernetes and Middleware solutionsUnderstanding of and experience with public cloud technologies including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Engine (GCE)Understanding of modern methodologies like agile development and DevOps and associated capabilities like automation, orchestration, and configuration managementBachelor's or master's degree is a plusThe following are considered a plus:Experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Application Services offerings and technologiesExperience with Container Services offerings through Cloud ProvidersCloud certificationsPrevious experience on application modernization projects leveraging Public or Private Cloud infrastructureProficiency in programming languages like Ruby, Python, Perl, and JavaExperience with DockerUnderstanding of industry trends around cloud computing, end-user computing, development platform, or virtualizationExperience with securityVMware Certified Professional (VCP), or Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certifications, AI knowledgeAbout Red HatRed Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. 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