Senior Solution Architect

The Red Hat Sales team is looking for a Senior Account Solution Architect to join us in Mexico City this role you will be helping our customers accelerate their business with Red Hats hybrid cloud offerings through technical presentations and solution demonstrations.

Youll build relationships with customers account managers and product teams to design and architect new solutions using the leading enterprise Kubernetes platform built for managing hybrid cloud multi-cloud and edge-network deployments. Red Hat OpenShift is optimized to improve developer productivity and promote innovation while facilitating the management of increasingly complex environments.

As a Senior Account Solution Architect youll demonstrate the ability to connect technology with measurable business value for customers across many industries ranging from medium to large businesses.

You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business products and technical challenges to drive revenue growth and Red Hat awareness together with our partners.

What you will do:

• Strategic Account Mapping: Act as the trusted technical advisor for designated enterprise accounts in Mexico (FSI Retail or Manufacturing) aligning Red Hats open-source portfolio with the clients long-term business transformation and digital strategy.

• Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Architecture: Design scalable resilient hybrid and multi-cloud architectures leveraging Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible optimizing integration with major cloud providers (AWS Azure GCP) operating within local data regions in Mexico.

• Business Case & Value Realization: Build robust technical business cases Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analyses and ROI models to justify legacy modernization (e.g. migrating from WebSphere/WebLogic) to cloud-native platforms for C-level executives.

• Data Sovereignty & Compliance: Ensure all proposed architectures comply with Mexican corporate governance local data residency requirements and industry-specific regulations.

• Executive Storytelling: Translate complex microservices automation and Kubernetes architectures into clear value-driven business outcomes for CxO-level audiences.

• Own the technical win for each sales opportunity by proving through demonstrations architectural workshops and deep-dive discussions how the Red Hat portfolio solves complex customer problems.

• Orchestrate the overall technical approach across all phases of the customer lifecyclefrom initial value definition to ongoing value recognitionensuring continuous adoption and software renewal.

What you will Bring

• Experience: 8 years of experience in a Senior Pre-Sales Solutions Architecture or Technical Consulting role successfully managing complex IT environments for Top 100 corporate accounts in Mexico.

• Proven Consultative Selling and Whiteboarding skills: Ability to capture a clients current Technical Landscape live and design a future-state architecture on the spot.

• Cross-functional execution: Demonstrated ability to act as the primary technical point of contact coordinating with internal product specialists partners and Customer Success teams to deliver a unified strategy.

• Language Proficiency: Native or bilingual fluency in Spanish and full professional proficiency in English (essential for collaborating with global product engineering and regional leadership teams).

• Travel Mobility: Willingness to travel up to 30-40% within the Mexican territory primarily to key business hubs such as Monterrey Guadalajara and Querétaro based on account requirements.

Technical Skills / Requirements

• Enterprise Tech Stack: Deep hands-on experience with Enterprise Linux (RHEL) IT automation (Ansible) and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes / Red Hat OpenShift).

• Cloud & Architecture Mastery: Proven track record designing high-availability architectures disaster recovery plans (DRP) and FinOps/cost-optimization strategies for workloads running on hyperscalers.

• Strong foundational knowledge in Virtualization modernization and cloud-native infrastructure transition strategies.

• Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure concepts and how to position open-source platforms to accelerate enterprise AI deployment.

Preferred Certifications (Plus)

• Red Hat Credentials: Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift or Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation.

• Cloud Providers: Solutions Architect Professional or Associate level certifications from AWS Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Enterprise Frameworks: TOGAF SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or FinOps Certified Practitioner.

• Experience with Container Services offerings through Cloud Providers including but not limited to: AWS EKS AWS Fargate Azure AKS Google GKE AWS ROSA Azure ARO Azure DevOps

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