Chief Architect LATAM

Join to apply for the Chief Architect LATAM role at Red Hat This Chief Architect position will focus on enterprise‑scale commercial companies and organizations in Latin America. Successful candidates will bring experience in broad technology architecture, across one or more industries, and both traditional and emerging IT practices. Candidates should have a strong knowledge of Red Hat’s portfolio of offerings and the competitive differentiation in the technology landscape. The selected candidate will be expected to gain an understanding of and ability to represent Red Hat’s research and emerging technology areas. Chief Architects support Red Hat’s sales process through the creation, curation, and education of common patterns, defined through interactions with the broad set of customers and the ecosystem of partners. While engaged in the sales process, the role prioritizes building relationships on trust and mutual value, not on closing sales. What You Will Do Represent Red Hat’s strategic message in meetings and briefings with customers, Executive Briefing Center (EBC) sessions, professional and technology communities, interviews with media analysts, and on stage at public events. Understand and articulate the innovative vision and business requirements of customers and partners, identify the drivers and opportunities for working with Red Hat, and provide technical and business value guidance aligned with the Red Hat portfolio and ecosystem of partner offerings. Serve as a subject‑matter expert to Red Hat’s Technical Sales community in a specific geography, industry, or technology area, leveraging the library of architectural patterns to create Sales, Support, and Engineering efficiencies. Aggregate, define and capture valuable insights and efforts produced during engagements with customers, partners, and communities as reusable patterns, including code, configuration, documentation, and enablement in written and video formats. Represent the aggregate voice of enterprise customers as part of Red Hat’s strategic planning processes, using verified stories from customer and community engagements to help justify proposed investments. Enable the use of Open Source community practices as a model for collaboration inside and outside Red Hat. Review complex technical architectures when requested by Solution Architects in the field, helping validate technical and business aspects of the proposed solution. What You Will Bring Ability to communicate clearly and confidently in spoken, written, and visual forms, at scales ranging from individual conversations with executives and media to large public audiences. Ability to discover and understand functional business requirements across various industries and map to appropriate technologies and practices from Red Hat and across our ecosystem of partners. Ability to define and describe complex domain architecture from a logical, functional, and technical perspective, and document these architectures using tools that support reuse of the pattern and deployment according to common GitOps/DevOps practices. Ability to capture and collaborate on reusable architectural patterns, in formats ranging across written documentation, slides, diagrams, code, and/or configurations, using tools appropriate for the type of architecture, format, and audience. Strong understanding of open source and community models of collaboration. Act as technical leaders demonstrating qualities Red Hat values in field‑facing staff, providing mentorship, and continuously improving the organization. Spanish or Portuguese speaker and proficient in English. Experience Required Hands‑on knowledge of Red Hat’s product portfolio in development or production scenarios. Demonstrated ability to collaborate in teams and across teams, building relationships based on trust and sharing of knowledge. Demonstrated ability to solve meaningful problems using multiple technologies and practices, and document and communicate the solution to a team/organization for sustainment and reuse. Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community‑powered approach to deliver high‑performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in‑office to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We’re a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact. Inclusion at Red Hat: Red Hat’s culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion. When this is realized, it empowers people from different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences to come together to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access, and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration, and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions that compose our global village. Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO) Red Hat is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. 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