Professional Services Technical Architect
Professional Services Technical Architect
at GitLab
Remote, AMER
An overview of this role
The Technical Architect role at GitLab is a multifaceted and pivotal position responsible for guiding and executing a wide range of critical responsibilities. As a Technical Architect, you will be at the forefront of GitLab's Professional Services projects, overseeing the entire engagement life cycle, from initial scoping to delivery. Your role encompasses detailed technical design, ensuring that deliverables precisely align with customer expectations. Collaboration is key, as you'll coordinate and lead the implementation efforts of both internal and partner consultants, fostering best practices and effective communication. Mentorship is another crucial aspect of your role, providing guidance through documentation, delivery kits, and training materials. You'll liaise with various functional groups within GitLab and contribute to the development of internal processes, ensuring a seamless and collaborative environment. Additionally, you'll play a pivotal role in customer engagements by leading technical discovery sessions, articulating task-level work requirements, and providing expert guidance during project planning. Staying informed about GitLab's product updates and industry trends will be essential to success in this dynamic role..
What you’ll do
Deliver high-level designs Professional Services projects around GitLab infrastructure and functionality ensuring that the deliverable accurately meets the defined expectations of the customer
Engage with Customers in a Statement of Work to drive results maintaining a 55% billable utilization
Deploy to customer on-prem and cloud providers utilizing Terraform and Ansible in our GitLab Environment Toolkit following our reference architectures.
Perform migrations from source system to GitLab using Congregate.
Provide DevOps and DevSecOps consulting and best practices utilizing internal frameworks like DGF and GitLab Flow.
Coordinate and oversee functional implementation activities for internal and partner consultants, developers, and customer points of contact (POC) on large scale enterprise projects
Mentor PS and partner consultants providing guidance regarding 'Best Practices', communication, and implementation strategies
Provide mentorship and collateral in the form of documentation, delivery kits, and training materials
Liaise with and support of other functional groups within GitLab – including (but not limited to) training, development, support, product, engineering
Provide support to PS Engagement Managers during the scoping and creation of the customer statement of work (SOW)
Lead technical discovery sessions with customers, partners and GitLab PSEs to understand their business goals, technical constraints and requirements
Provide technical expertise and consultative advice during the planning stages of a customer engagement
Stay up to date on new features, and fixes within the monthly GitLab product releases and disseminate key information to the PSE team
Hold enablement sessions for PS or other team members to learn how to use or how to sell particular service offerings
Assists Regional Delivery Managers with
Technical Vetting of Partner Consultants
New hire candidates
SOW staffing assessments
What you’ll bring
Strong written and verbal communications
Demonstrated progressive experience delivering two or more of the following consulting services
SCM migration
Cloud Architecture
DevOps Engineering
CI/CD consulting services
Demonstrated progressive enterprise level software development experience
Demonstrated progressive DevOps Platform experience
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence internal team members, customers and partners
Demonstrated problem solving and decision-making abilities with effective organizational and time management skills the ability to handle multiple projects and priorities effectively in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
Strong organizational, multi-tasking and presentation skills. Ability to create momentum and foster organizational change
About the team
Customers often want to transition to GitLab, utilize features of their existing GitLab installation, or map out extensive upgrades to their existing infrastructure and process. That is where we step in. Our team has a diverse set of skills across the deployment, maintenance, and usage of GitLab, as well as deep technical knowledge with competing portfolios, allowing us to help our customers realize faster time to value with their GitLab investment.
Thanks to our Transparency value, you can see how work and who we are on our Team page.
How GitLab will support you
All remote, asynchronous work environment
Home office support
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.
To view the full job description and its compensation calculator, view our handbook. The compensation calculator can be found towards the bottom of the page.
Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.
Remote-Global
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range
$164,520—$193,500 USD
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Professional Services Technical Architect
Professional Services Technical Architect
at GitLab
Remote, AMER
An overview of this role
The Technical Architect role at GitLab is a multifaceted and pivotal position responsible for guiding and executing a wide range of critical responsibilities. As a Technical Architect, you will be at the forefront of GitLab's Professional Services projects, overseeing the entire engagement life cycle, from initial scoping to delivery. Your role encompasses detailed technical design, ensuring that deliverables precisely align with customer expectations. Collaboration is key, as you'll coordinate and lead the implementation efforts of both internal and partner consultants, fostering best practices and effective communication. Mentorship is another crucial aspect of your role, providing guidance through documentation, delivery kits, and training materials. You'll liaise with various functional groups within GitLab and contribute to the development of internal processes, ensuring a seamless and collaborative environment. Additionally, you'll play a pivotal role in customer engagements by leading technical discovery sessions, articulating task-level work requirements, and providing expert guidance during project planning. Staying informed about GitLab's product updates and industry trends will be essential to success in this dynamic role..
What you’ll do
Deliver high-level designs Professional Services projects around GitLab infrastructure and functionality ensuring that the deliverable accurately meets the defined expectations of the customer
Engage with Customers in a Statement of Work to drive results maintaining a 55% billable utilization
Deploy to customer on-prem and cloud providers utilizing Terraform and Ansible in our GitLab Environment Toolkit following our reference architectures.
Perform migrations from source system to GitLab using Congregate.
Provide DevOps and DevSecOps consulting and best practices utilizing internal frameworks like DGF and GitLab Flow.
Coordinate and oversee functional implementation activities for internal and partner consultants, developers, and customer points of contact (POC) on large scale enterprise projects
Mentor PS and partner consultants providing guidance regarding 'Best Practices', communication, and implementation strategies
Provide mentorship and collateral in the form of documentation, delivery kits, and training materials
Liaise with and support of other functional groups within GitLab – including (but not limited to) training, development, support, product, engineering
Provide support to PS Engagement Managers during the scoping and creation of the customer statement of work (SOW)
Lead technical discovery sessions with customers, partners and GitLab PSEs to understand their business goals, technical constraints and requirements
Provide technical expertise and consultative advice during the planning stages of a customer engagement
Stay up to date on new features, and fixes within the monthly GitLab product releases and disseminate key information to the PSE team
Hold enablement sessions for PS or other team members to learn how to use or how to sell particular service offerings
Assists Regional Delivery Managers with
Technical Vetting of Partner Consultants
New hire candidates
SOW staffing assessments
What you’ll bring
Strong written and verbal communications
Demonstrated progressive experience delivering two or more of the following consulting services
SCM migration
Cloud Architecture
DevOps Engineering
CI/CD consulting services
Demonstrated progressive enterprise level software development experience
Demonstrated progressive DevOps Platform experience
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence internal team members, customers and partners
Demonstrated problem solving and decision-making abilities with effective organizational and time management skills the ability to handle multiple projects and priorities effectively in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
Strong organizational, multi-tasking and presentation skills. Ability to create momentum and foster organizational change
About the team
Customers often want to transition to GitLab, utilize features of their existing GitLab installation, or map out extensive upgrades to their existing infrastructure and process. That is where we step in. Our team has a diverse set of skills across the deployment, maintenance, and usage of GitLab, as well as deep technical knowledge with competing portfolios, allowing us to help our customers realize faster time to value with their GitLab investment.
Thanks to our Transparency value, you can see how work and who we are on our Team page.
How GitLab will support you
All remote, asynchronous work environment
Home office support
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.
To view the full job description and its compensation calculator, view our handbook. The compensation calculator can be found towards the bottom of the page.
Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.
Remote-Global
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range
$164,520—$193,500 USD