Senior Solutions Architect

Responsibilities

• Manage all technical needs of the assigned partner utilizing all available resources.
• Serve as a single technical point of contact and become the partner s trusted advisor and the Wind River solutions expert.
• Listen to partner s needs, then Architect, Develop, and deliver Proofs of Concept, Demos, and Presentations.
• Understand the end customer use cases and help develop part of the POC or Demo.
• Exhibit leadership skills during customer requirements analysis and creating technical solutions as well as identifying potential business opportunities.
• Participation in open source projects will be based on business needs.
• Provide consistent market feedback to Wind River.
• Remove technical barriers for Wind River solutions.
• Increase Wind Rivers market share globally.

ABOUT YOU

Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success

• Be hands-on in the development of customer proof of concepts (PoCs), extending product features, and testing code.
• Experience in open-source projects such as StarlingX, Kubernetes is a must.
• Knowledge of modern enterprise IT infrastructure, private/hybrid cloud platforms, Telco Core/RAN, OSS/BSS and application performance management tools is a strong plus.
• Experience explaining technical concepts to large audience, comfort, and confidence in front of customers.
• Able to work independently in partner and end customer locations/labs.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate should have 12+ years of software development or solutions architecting experience in the following areas:

• Working/functional knowledge of network stacks, switching, routing, etc.
• U nderstanding of enterprise IT architectures and modern infrastructure platforms (data center, edge, and cloud) and k nowledge of telecom networks.
• Knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation or similar products.
• Experience in system-level solution design, including enterprise workload orchestration.
• Expertise in virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, orchestration, OpenStack, and cloud-native technologies.
• Exposure to software-defined infrastructure, virtualization, and distributed system management.
• Linux background covering deployment, image build, application, and kernel development.
• Adept at various programming languages: C++/C, scripting languages like Python, Perl, etc.
• Must have English language skills enabling business discussion/dialogue.
• Travel at short notice availability required up to 25%.