Architect - Application Development (Zurich Office

The Red Hat Services team is looking for an Architect to join us in Zurich, Switzerland. In this role, you will focus on the core around the processes necessary to promote the adoption of Red Hat Technologies either through migration or modernization of customer environments. You’ll work closely with the Consulting, Sales, and Presales teams to achieve your goals. You will serve as a customer advocate to architect the right solutions and to ensure that those solutions are implemented and supported in an innovative and reliable way. You’ll be expected to learn our offerings quickly, especially Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

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
- 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, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk
- 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
- 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 even to C-level executives
- 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
- Development experience with Microsoft.Net would be a plus
- Good presentation and communication skills in English and German
- Competence to quickly embrace and understand new technologies; ability to comprehend new information and understand complex topics
- Proven ability to work with distributed cross-functional teams to achieve success on behalf of customers
- Excellent communication skills in German and English

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