EMEA Telco Senior Account Solution Architect

Red Hat; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic EMEA Telco Senior Account Solution Architect to enhance partnerships with Tier-1 telco customers. This role involves technical leadership, defining next-gen IT architectures, and collaborating with account managers to meet customer needs. You'll be pivotal in presenting Red Hat's innovative solutions and fostering relationships at all organizational levels. If you're passionate about driving change in the telecommunications sector and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Extensive Telco industry knowledge and market insights.
• Solid skills in IT technologies used in telcos.

Responsibilities

• Evangelize the value of Red Hat Solutions.
• Define and present Red Hat product portfolios for telcos.
• Lead technical responses to customer RFx processes.

Skills

Telco industry knowledge

Virtualization

Cloud technologies

Container Platforms

Microservices

5G

IoT

SDN

NFV

OSS/BSS

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Job Summary

The Red Hat Sales team is looking for an experienced Telco Account Solution Architect to join our Telco Tech Sales team in EMEA.

Job Summary

The Red Hat Sales team is looking for an experienced Telco Account Solution Architect to join our Telco Tech Sales team in EMEA.

In this role, you will join our global telco vertical to develop and maintain the partnership with the Tier-1 telco customers and align the Red Hat organization with the customer globally to address their needs. You will partner closely with the Account Manager and will be responsible for technical leadership for your accounts.

What You Will Do

• Evangelize the value of Red Hat Solutions. Work with the Account Manager and collaborate with the extended team to focus on the best manner to address your customer needs
• Define, document, present, and demonstrate how the Red Hat product portfolio can enable next-generation IT and network architectures for telecommunications providers.
• Work with the ecosystem to position Red Hat as a key strategic vendor for telecommunications and NFV infrastructures, e.g. ISVS, NEPs, telecommunications, cloud providers, integrators, and hardware vendors
• Deliver expert-level presentations and demonstrations for Red Hat products and solutions in the context of Telco IT operations teams and networks
• Lead the technical responses to customer’s RFx processes
• Design value-driven architectures and present their application and return on investment (ROI)
• Contribute to growing and developing the business with the Global Account in all aspects of the relationship, including on the telco network and the IT side, as well as developing the business partnership in place
• Demonstrate and act as a role model of great leadership skills in an open organization, fostering a culture of success and inclusiveness
• Position Red Hat at all levels within the customer, including C-level executives
• Actively contribute to account plans and strategy sessions. Develop technical account plans.
• Maintain and develop new relationships within the assigned account
• Exhibit a high level of initiative with the ability to work independently while maintaining the team role and being an exceptional team player
• Knowledge-sharing and sharing of lessons learned where applicable
  
  

What You Will Bring

• Excellent conceptual skills that can knit together the complexity of today's telecommunications environment with the power of Red Hat software capabilities to define the potential of next-generation service providers and related ecosystem environments.
• Extensive Telco industry knowledge and market insights, with a good understanding of current, new, and future technologies and business directions.
• Build and maintain Management/C-level relationships with Red Hat’s customer and partners that result in deeper loyalty to Red Hat and broader adoption of Red Hat’s solutions
• Solid skills in IT technologies used in telcos, such as Virtualization, Cloud, Container Platforms, and Microservices.
• Understanding of the existing and new technologies used by the telecommunications industries, such as 5G, IoT, SDN, NFV, OSS/BSS
• Ability to learn new concepts and new technology quickly
• Reliable, committed, and organized with the ability to handle change easily
• Ability to demonstrate creativity and innovative thinking
• Motivated and result-oriented with the ability to perform within a fast-paced environment
• Develop and nurture relationships with counterpart Global SAs across the partner ecosystem
• Willingness and ability to travel globally (up to 50%)
• Fluent English language skills
  
  

About Red Hat

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 office-flex, 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.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Software Development and IT Services and IT Consulting

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