About the Job
As a Senior Architect Middleware you will be a trusted advisor and technical leader guiding enterprise customers in designing implementing and optimising solutions using Red Hats middleware portfolio. You will work closely with customer architects business stakeholders and Red Hat delivery teams to translate business goals into scalable open and cloud-native architectures.
This role blends deep technical expertise in Red Hat Middleware (JBoss EAP AMQ Fuse 3scale Kafka Quarkus etc.) with strong consulting leadership and customer engagement skills. You will provide architectural thought leadership influence digital transformation initiatives and ensure solution success across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
What you will do:
Lead design architecture for middleware projects and engagements ensuring alignment with customer business goals and IT strategies.
Design review and validate middleware architectures integration patterns and application modernization strategies using Red Hat technologies.
Partner with enterprise customers to drive cloud-native adoption microservices APIs messaging and event-driven architectures.
Provide technical leadership to consulting teams mentoring solution architects consultants and developers.
Act as a trusted advisor for CXO-level and senior IT stakeholders influencing middleware and integration strategy.
Collaborate with sales product engineering and customer success teams to shape solutions and accelerate adoption.
Lead technical workshops assessments and proofs-of-concept (PoCs) for middleware and integration solutions.
Advocate open-source adoption and Red Hat best practices for middleware application platforms and DevOps pipelines.
Author architecture blueprints reference architectures and technical collateral for customer and internal use.
Ensure project delivery quality risk mitigation and long-term customer success.
What you will bring:
15 years of experience in IT with 7 years in Red Hat middleware products
Proven expertise in middleware platforms particularly:
Red Hat JBoss EAP / WildFly (application server)
Red Hat Fuse / Camel (integration frameworks)
Red Hat AMQ / Kafka (messaging and event streaming)
API Management (Red Hat 3scale Apigee Kong)
Quarkus / MicroProfile for cloud-native application development
Strong knowledge of microservices SOA event-driven and integration architectures.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift for deploying and scaling middleware workloads.
Understanding of DevOps CI/CD automation and observability.
Familiarity with hybrid cloud multi-cloud and edge computing environments.
Excellent consulting skills: stakeholder management executive communication and presentation.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver complex enterprise solutions.
Experience in large-scale application modernization programs (monolith to microservices containerization).
Domain knowledge in banking telecom public sector or manufacturing industries.
Familiarity with AI/ML event-driven microservices and API-first strategies.
Experience in pre-sales/solutioning for consulting engagements.
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