About the Job:
The Red Hat Technology Consulting team is looking for a Managing Architect to join our EMEA Technology Services team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In this role, you will manage a team of architects and consultants who focus on adoption of Red Hat’s technologies. As a Managing Architect, you'll need to demonstrate leadership and build on your own experience to inspire, enable, and develop your team members. You will be expected to collaborate with the EMEA Technology Consulting team.
What you will do:
Provide direction, coaching, and mentoring to increase your team's capabilities, develop their competencies, and ensure that goals and expectations are met
Actively engage in defining and building the EMEA Technology Consulting strategy
Participate in regional and global continuous process improvement initiatives
Identify and prioritize engagement opportunities where the EMEA Technology team plays a key role in improving the customer experience and accelerating the adoption of Red Hat’s technologies
Build and maintain relationships and establish trust with regional and cross-functional stakeholders
Manage the collection, aggregation, interpretation, and reporting of organizational performance metrics to be used by management and operational leaders to guide strategic business decisions
Hire and maintain the best talent for Consulting
Remove internal and external blockers for team
Manage escalations to ensure delivery of positive customer experience
Close collaboration with the EMEA Technology Managers and with the local Technology manager.
What you will bring:
Excellent knowledge of infrastructure technologies on a delivery level
Proven experience in a technical role as architect with Red Hat products like OpenShift Container Platform, Ansible or OpenStack
Ability to identify potential, develop people, and motivate and build a team
Excellent problem-solving, communication, inspiring, and time management skills
Ability to anticipate needs and provide clarity on expectations
Solutions-oriented mindset; ability to exercise good professional judgment
Ability to collaborate effectively with associates from diverse cultural backgrounds
Advanced business insight - Good written and verbal communication skills in English
High-level technical understanding of Red Hat’s cloud services portfolio
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