Consulting Architect

Borr Drilling; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in enterprise open-source software solutions seeks an Architect in Singapore. The role involves promoting Red Hat solutions at key client accounts, mentoring teams, and implementing robust architectures. Ideal candidates should have extensive experience in Red Hat OpenShift and cloud environments, coupled with strong leadership and customer-facing skills.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in consulting and architecture roles.
• Hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift platform.
• Strong experience in multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement modern platform architectures.
• Lead project teams and deliver high-quality customer solutions.
• Support technical presales and contribute to best practices.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Customer-facing skills

Agile methodologies

API design

Microservices

DevOps practices

Education

Red Hat OpenShift certification

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code tools

Job description

Job Summary:

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for an Architect to join us in Singapore supporting the ASEAN region. In this role, you will promote the adoption of Red Hat's solutions at our key enterprise accounts, government agencies, and service provider partners. You'll define requirements and deliver solutions based on the Red Hat portfolio of solutions and services offerings. You will lead small to medium-sized project teams and ensure the quality of customer deliverables for one or more projects. You will apply well-developed consulting, business, and process expertise in your work and coach and mentor others while building good customer relationships. You will earn the trust and confidence of our customer Project, Development, and Operations teams by matching their requirements and use cases with the functional capabilities of our solutions. As an Architect, you will serve as a customer advocate within Red Hat, delivering the right solutions and ensuring that these solutions are implemented and supported in a creative and reliable way.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

1. Design and implement modern platform architectures with a strong understanding of Red Hat OpenShift, container orchestration, and automation at scale.
2. Win the confidence of our customers through the successful delivery of discovery, analysis, and design workshops that shape and influence the customer’s architecture design decisions to align with the Red Hat solution.
3. Understand industry practices and Red Hat's policies, procedures, and values.
4. Remain hands-on with development and implementation — especially in prototyping, design, and agile iterative delivery.
5. Make strategic business recommendations and influence project direction toward business goals.
6. Serve as a trusted advisor to technical Red Hat and customer resources.
7. Consider customer culture/organization in project design and delivery, and identify opportunities for improvement.
8. Support technical presales efforts, workshops, and proofs of concept, emphasizing business context and value.
9. Establish best practices for platform deployment, hardening, observability, monitoring, alerting, capacity management, scalability, resiliency, and security operations.
10. Create reusable reference architectures, best practices, and delivery models; mentor others in applying them.
11. Contribute to standard consulting offerings, frameworks, and capability playbooks.
12. Facilitate collaboration across stakeholders and project teams.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years in consulting and architecture roles.
• Hands-on experience and advanced knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift platform.
• Expertise in managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud environments.
• Proven experience in operationalizing Red Hat OpenShift with Service Mesh, GitOps, and Serverless frameworks.
• Experience with migrating to OpenShift container platform.
• Leadership in modern software and platform transformation projects.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code, automation tools, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of microservices, API design, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with agile, scrum, and cross-functional team collaboration.
• Ability to advise on platform and application modernization, including AI use cases.
• Strong customer-facing skills, including presentation and leadership in customer interactions.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills for technical and business audiences.
• Participation in open source communities or contributor background.
• Red Hat OpenShift certification is required.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift AI, Virtualisation, or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks like TOGAF or Zachman.

About Red Hat:

Red Hat is a leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Our culture emphasizes transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, welcoming diverse perspectives and ideas. We are committed to equal opportunity and support individuals with disabilities, providing reasonable accommodations during the application process.