Primary job responsibilities 

• Own the application practice strategy, planning, and implementation across Red Hat products - Openshift, Ansible, Cloud Forms, Openstack, etc
• Provide line management to all application practice team members
• Lead presales, design, and delivery of new consulting solutions
• Manage a team of architects and consultants across a number of Red Hat sub-practice focus areas including integration, business automation, container platform, and application migration and modernization
• Create frameworks and processes for Red Hat offerings
• Perform operational reporting and day-to-day management of the practice and its resources to support each stage of the opportunity life cycle
• Develop Reskilling and hiring plan for Red Hat application consultants
• Partner and engage with key customers to build out POVs and Advisory for Red Hat Adoption.

Required skills

• Experience in leading and managing presales solutions and application consulting for  Red Hat products
• Ability to quickly embrace and understand new technologies; ability to assimilate new information and understand complex topics
• Background in leading complex customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technology domain
• Proven record of working in a strategic advisory capacity to senior technology and business leaders
• Broad and deep technical experience across a selection of integration, messaging, containerization, cloud native application platform, etc
• Knowledge of and operational experience with new services methodology related to agile and DevOps
• Passion for open source, software, tooling, and automation
• Cross-cultural experience managing virtual teams is desirable
• Experience across one or more vertical industry areas is desirable