Senior Solutions Architect - East

GitLab; United States; On-site; USD 137,400 - 231,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits to support health, finances,

Flexible Paid Time Off

Team Member Resource Groups

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock-P

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is hiring a Senior Solutions Architect to help prospects and customers in the East region of the United States understand how our AI-powered DevSecOps platform can solve technical challenges and drive business outcomes across the software lifecycle.

You will act as a strategic technical advisor, guiding complex evaluations, shaping multi-team transformation, mentoring peers, and demonstrating GitLab’s differentiated value in a fast-changing AI market.

Qualifications

• Experience guiding solution design and technical evaluations.
• Ability to solve complex customer issues with broad scope.
• Knowledge of end-to-end software development lifecycle, including DevSecOps, CI/CD, security and cloud.
• Hands-on familiarity with GitLab or similar platforms and connecting capabilities to customer goals.
• Experience facilitating workshops, leading proofs of concept, and contributing to technical assessments.
• Strong communication to adapt technical and business messages for diverse stakeholders.
• Relationship-building with a customer-focused approach and advocacy for customer requirements.
• Interest in continuous learning and mentoring within GitLab, AI, and DevSecOps.

Responsibilities

• Guide technical discovery, product demonstrations, and validation activities to confirm technical fit.
• Own the technical evaluation process for complex opportunities with documented outcomes.
• Develop end-to-end technical strategies for accounts to expand platform adoption.
• Collaborate with Account Executives and regional teams to align technical strategy with customer priorities.
• Advise on modern software development practices to improve delivery and security outcomes.
• Drive competitive analysis to clarify GitLab’s differentiated approach.
• Represent customer voice to Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing.
• Mentor other Solutions Architects and share knowledge across teams.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

Solution design

Technical evaluations

Adoption planning

Workshop facilitation

Cross-functional collaboration

DevSecOps knowledge

CI/CD knowledge

GitLab familiarity

Communication skills

Tools

GitLab

CI/CD tooling

Job description

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our valuesand continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

Fortune 500 is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

An overview of this role

As a Senior Solutions Architect, you’ll help GitLab prospects and customers in the East region of the United States see how our AI-powered DevSecOps platform can solve technical issues and advance business goals across the full software development lifecycle. You’ll act as a strategic technical advisor and, for assigned accounts, serve as a strategic technical partner who guides complex evaluations, shapes long-term architecture choices, and helps customers modernize how they plan, build, secure, deploy, and monitor software. Reporting to a regional Solutions Architect Manager and partnering closely with Account Executives and cross-functional teams, you’ll guide technical strategy for opportunities in North America while bringing customer insight back to Product Management, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing.

This is a senior role with accountability across broad scope, complex customer environments, and high-impact technical judgment. In your first year, you’ll focus on guiding high-value technical engagements, enabling successful platform adoption, shaping multi-team transformation strategies, mentoring other Solutions Architects, and helping customers see GitLab’s differentiated value in an evolving AI and DevSecOps market.

What you’ll do

• Guide technical discovery, product demonstrations, and validation activities, including proofs of value, to confirm technical fit, accelerate evaluation milestones, and improve technical win rates for GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform.
• Own the technical evaluation process for complex opportunities, including solution design, workshop facilitation, proof of concept or proof of value execution, and technical materials for tenders, audits, and assessments, with accountability for clear success criteria and documented evaluation outcomes.
• Develop end-to-end technical strategies for assigned accounts that expand platform adoption, reduce delivery risk, and enable multi-team and multi-year transformation milestones.
• Collaborate with Account Executives and regional sales teams in the East territory to shape account and territory plans, support qualification, and align technical strategy to customer priorities, opportunity progression, and business outcomes.
• Advise technical practitioners and business leaders on modern software development, continuous integration, continuous deployment, security, cloud, and platform adoption practices to improve delivery efficiency, strengthen security outcomes, and increase adoption of GitLab workflows.
• Drive competitive analysis and positioning for complex opportunities by using market, industry, and customer context to clarify GitLab’s differentiated approach and improve technical win readiness.
• Represent the voice of the customer by sharing product feedback, use cases, integration needs, and field insights with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to improve roadmap decisions, integration readiness, and field effectiveness.
• Mentor other Solutions Architects, contribute to team learning initiatives, improve technical collateral and documentation, and share subject matter expertise through GitLab’s common collaboration channels to increase team readiness, reuse of technical assets, and consistency across engagements.

What you’ll bring

• Experience working with customers in technical pre-sales, consulting, or related roles where you’ve guided solution design, technical evaluations, and adoption planning.
• Ability to solve customer issues with broad scope and high complexity, including integration challenges and cross-functional technical scenarios.
• Knowledge of the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including DevSecOps practices, continuous integration, continuous deployment, security, and cloud concepts.
• Hands‑on familiarity with GitLab or similar source code management, CI/CD, and collaboration platforms, with the ability to connect platform capabilities to customer goals.
• Experience facilitating workshops, leading proofs of concept or proofs of value, and contributing to technical assessments, audits, or tender responses.
• Communication skills that let you adapt technical and business messages for practitioners, leaders, and executive stakeholders.
• Relationship‑building skills with a customer‑focused approach, including the ability to listen, challenge constructively, and advocate for customer requirements internally.
• Interest in continuous learning, mentoring, and applying transferable experience from related backgrounds to deepen expertise in GitLab, AI, and DevSecOps.

About the team

The Solutions Architect team is part of GitLab’s Sales organization. We collaborate asynchronously across regions to share practices, develop reusable technical content, and bring field feedback into the business. We work closely with Sales, Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing, and we value knowledge sharing, strong technical storytelling, and continuous learning as we help customers modernize software delivery in a fast-changing AI and DevSecOps market.

United States Salary Range: $137,400 – $231,200 USD

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

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