Solutions Architect

2 Months ago • All levels • Devops • $90,300 PA - $129,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Solutions Architect, you will be a trusted advisor to GitLab prospects and clients, demonstrating how GitLab solutions address client business needs. You will drive and manage the technology evaluation and validation stages of the sales process. This role involves technical expertise, sales strategy formulation and execution, providing technical guidance, building customer relationships, and advocating for customers within GitLab. Key responsibilities include engaging with customers, collaborating with sales teams, providing technical expertise, leading technical evaluations, and maintaining market knowledge.
Must have:
  • Experience with technical pre-sales or IT professionals.
  • Experience with modern software development and operations.
Good to have:
  • Experience with cloud computing and related technologies.
  • Experience in Workshop facilitation.
Perks:
  • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
  • All remote, asynchronous work environment
  • Flexible PTO (paid time off)
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and development budget
  • Parental leave
  • Home office support

Job Details

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise, and Duo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organisation.

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

Solutions Architects are the trusted advisors to GitLab prospects and clients, showing how the GitLab solutions address client business requirements. Solutions Architects are responsible for driving and managing the technology evaluation and validation stages of the sales process. Solutions Architects are the product advocates for GitLab’s Enterprise Edition. They focus on the technical solution while also understanding the business outcomes the customer is trying to achieve.

The Solutions Architect helps drive value and change with software development for one of the fastest-growing platforms. By applying solution selling and architecture experience from planning to monitoring, the Solutions Architect supports and enables successful adoption of the GitLab platform. Solutions Architects work collaboratively with GitLab’s customers across segments, Sales, Engineering, Product Management, and Marketing organizations.

What you'll do

  • Technical expertise: Engage with customers, both onsite and remotely, by providing technical expertise during the pre-sales process. The additional responsibility implies adopting a more mature consultancy and advisor role during the pre-sales process while providing technical assistance and solution guidance.
  • Sales strategy: Collaborate with the sales team to go beyond support to formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue targets through the adoption of GitLab.
  • Technical guidance: Be the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) on Technical Close Plans and technical evaluations via POC/POV ownership, technical part of tender/audit support, and workshop design.
  • Customer relationships: Build deep relationships with people within customer environments to enable them to be GitLab advocates.
  • Customer feedbacks: Serve as the customer advocate to other GitLab teams, including Product Development, Sales, and Marketing.
  • Market knowledge: Maintain specialty competency in one or more technologies related to GitLab’s market focus through activities such as training, certification and creation of working examples for reuse internally and by customers and partners.
  • GitLab knowledge: With comprehensive knowledge of the GitLab platform and associated technologies, educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of GitLab while participating in discussions throughout the organization to ensure successful GitLab deployment.
  • Growth & Development: Continuously improve your professional skills with a focus on personal mastery and team learning through activities such as training, reading and seeking mentorship from others.
  • Strategic Client Engagement: Run Value Stream Assessments in your account with support of a Senior SA leading the engagement

What you'll bring

  • Experience with technical pre-sales or as a professional in the field of information technology
  • Experience with modern software development or operations and their associated technologies
  • Experience with cloud computing and related technologies and practices
  • Has experience with the additional responsibilities of a Senior Solutions Architect
  • Experience in Workshop facilitation
  • Experience working with Financial Services, i.e. FinTechs, Capital Markets, Insurance or Banks
  • Preferably has experience in DevSecOps in one or more of the following:  CICD, GitLab, GitHub, Application Security, Platform Engineering, or SRE experience

How GitLab will support you

Hiring process

  • Selected candidates will be invited to schedule a screening call with our Global Recruiters.
  • Next, candidates will be invited to schedule a first interview with the SA team Manager.
  • Candidates may be invited to schedule an interview with a Solutions Architect peer or other SA team Manager.
  • Then, candidates will be required to deliver a demo of GitLab to a panel of Customer Success attendees using the Demo Guide.
  • Candidates may be invited to additional interviews.
  • Successful candidates will be made an offer after references are verified.

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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