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Role Description:
We are seeking a talented and motivated Solutions Architect to join our dynamic team. As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for delivering exceptional guidance, support, and enablement focused on our Unicorn Delivery Service projects and capabilities. You will work closely with technical groups driving towards mission impact, providing technical expertise, proactive assistance, and strategic insights to maximize mission impact. This role is instrumental in ensuring a seamless and successful customer experience throughout the initial engagement and transition to longer-term execution.
Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor for customers and their technical needs, challenges, and goals.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, growth, and support of customer engagements
- Understand and articulate the technical competency and impact of engineers on the team
- Understand Defense Unicorns ' products and philosophy
- Assist the team in discovery and framing efforts across the industry
- Identify and implement process improvements to increase team efficiency and effectiveness
- Assist with demonstration and content creation on products
- Manage the "proof of concept" work
- Build and maintain continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
- Build, deploy, test, and troubleshoot UDS Bundles, Zarf packages, and UDS packages.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams for brainstorming, research, and innovative growth strategies
- Conduct market research and competitor analysis to identify growth opportunities.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to growth hacking and user acquisition
- Experiment with new tools, techniques, and technologies to improve growth outcomes
The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.
Preferred Experience and Qualifications:
- Proven experience in growth engineering, digital marketing, or related roles within a tech startup environment.
- Extensive knowledge in containerization and container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate, persuade and negotiate
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with 1+ years in a manager role
- Proven track record of leading and developing high-performing engineering teams
- Preferred knowledge in the CNCF ecosyste