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Red Hat

Enterprise open-source software subscriptions and services

Associate Principal Solution Architect

Pre-Sales Solution EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least five years of experience in presales, sales engineering, or architecture.
  • Experience building and leading a team with multiple roles to success on large-scale projects.
  • Experience participating in system development, including requirements definition, design, implementation, testing, and operations.
  • Strong communication, presentation, and negotiation skills, with a track record of building relationships at engineering, business, and executive levels.
  • Ability to identify and understand customers’ business and technical problems and explain how solutions address their needs and requirements.
  • Knowledge of enterprise solutions and architecture, such as cloud, virtualization, containers, storage, relational database management systems, enterprise resource planning systems such as Oracle or SAP, middleware, clustering, and high availability.
  • A self-directed and continuous-learning mindset for keeping up with new technologies and business knowledge.
  • Willingness to exchange opinions openly regardless of role or seniority, share knowledge generously, and select and develop good ideas.

Responsibilities

  • Develop proposals for customers’ IT strategies and future plans based on a deep understanding of their industries and businesses.
  • Understand customers’ business and IT environments and develop sales strategies in coordination with the sales team.
  • Understand customer challenges through customer visits and workshops, and assess how Red Hat products can be adopted.
  • Advance opportunities in coordination with the sales team to win contracts.
  • Provide technical information about building systems using Red Hat products and solutions.
  • Use product and technical expertise to deliver proofs of concept, presentations, and demonstrations to customers.
  • Communicate progress and status to all stakeholders.
  • Share knowledge and research findings so team members can learn from successes and failures.

Desired Qualifications

  • Specialized knowledge or experience in a particular industry and its business systems.
  • Experience planning and facilitating discovery sessions to identify business challenges or workshops to develop ideas for solving technical challenges.
  • Experience communicating and making proposals to customers’ business departments as well as their IT departments.
  • Experience proposing, designing, or building Red Hat products such as OpenShift and Ansible or related technologies such as artificial intelligence, PFE, Agile, and DevOps.
  • Business-level English proficiency.

About the Company

Red Hat

Enterprise open-source software subscriptions and services

Red Hat sells enterprise open-source software with a subscription model that includes updates, security patches, and professional support. Its products—RHEL for hybrid cloud servers, OpenShift for containerized apps, and the Ansible Automation Platform for IT automation—are open-source at core but provided with guaranteed enterprise support. Red Hat differentiates itself by pairing open-source code with a deep services layer and an integrated stack designed for hybrid/multicloud environments, backed by IBM. Its goal is to help large organizations deploy, manage, and scale open-source software across complex IT landscapes with reliable software and predictable, ongoing support.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Raleigh, NC
Founded
1993

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