Solutions Architect, UKI Remote, United Kingdom

GitLab Inc.; Mississippi; Remote; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Solutions Architect to join their dynamic team. In this role, you'll be the trusted advisor to clients, showcasing how innovative solutions can meet their business needs. You'll engage with customers throughout the sales cycle, providing technical guidance and support while collaborating closely with various teams. This position offers a unique opportunity to drive change and value in software development, making a significant impact on the adoption of a leading DevSecOps platform. If you're passionate about technology and eager to help clients succeed, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in technical pre-sales or IT roles is essential.
• Proficiency in cloud computing and modern software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise during pre-sales and engage with customers.
• Collaborate with sales teams to exceed revenue targets through GitLab adoption.
• Build deep relationships with customers to advocate for GitLab solutions.

Skills

Technical Pre-Sales Experience

Software Development Knowledge

Cloud Computing

GitLab Proficiency

Understanding of CI/CD

Customer Relationship Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Relevant Certifications

Tools

GitLab

Cloud Technologies

Job description

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

Solutions Architects are the trusted advisors to GitLab prospects and clients, showing how the GitLab solutions address client business requirements. Solutions Architects are responsible for driving and managing the technology evaluation and validation stages of the sales process. Solutions Architects are the product advocates for GitLab’s Enterprise Edition. They focus on the technical solution while also understanding the business outcomes the customer is trying to achieve.

The Solutions Architect helps drive value and change with software development for one of the fastest-growing platforms. By applying solution selling and architecture experience from planning to monitoring, the Solutions Architect supports and enables successful adoption of the GitLab platform. Solutions Architects work collaboratively with GitLab’s customers across segments, Sales, Engineering, Product Management, and Marketing organizations.

This role provides technical guidance and support throughout the entire sales cycle. Solution Architects can help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of the GitLab platform with customers by becoming the trusted advisor. The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record in software/technology sales or consulting. Proficiency in connecting technology solutions to measurable business value is critical to a Solutions Architect. Candidates should also have a demonstrated skill to think strategically about business, products, and technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Technical expertise: Engage with customers, both onsite and remotely, by providing technical expertise during the pre-sales process. The additional responsibility implies adopting a more mature consultancy and advisor role during the pre-sales process while providing technical assistance and solution guidance.
• Sales strategy: Collaborate with the sales team to go beyond support to formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue targets through the adoption of GitLab.
• Technical guidance: Be the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) on Technical Close Plans and technical evaluations via POC/POV ownership, technical part of tender/audit support, and workshop design.
• Customer relationships: Build deep relationships with people within customer environments to enable them to be GitLab advocates.
• Customer feedback: Serve as the customer advocate to other GitLab teams, including Product Development, Sales, and Marketing.
• Market knowledge: Maintain specialty competency in one or more technologies related to GitLab’s market focus through activities such as training, certification and creation of working examples for reuse internally and by customers and partners.
• GitLab knowledge: With comprehensive knowledge of the GitLab platform and associated technologies, educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of GitLab while participating in discussions throughout the organization to ensure successful GitLab deployment.
• Growth & Development: Continuously improve your professional skills with a focus on personal mastery and team learning through activities such as training, reading and seeking mentorship from others.
• Strategic Client Engagement: Run Value Stream Assessments in your account with support of a Senior SA leading the engagement.

What you'll bring

• Experience with technical pre-sales or as a professional in the field of information technology.
• Experience with modern software development or operations and their associated technologies.
• Experience with cloud computing and related technologies and practices.
• Understanding of the end-to-end software development lifecycle.
• Understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Ability to use GitLab.
• Ability to travel if needed and comply with the company’s travel policy.

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote; however, some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.

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