GitLab - Senior Solutions Architect - AI & Platforms SME
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Requirements
• Expert resonance for the most strategic aspects of GitLab’s product and customer personas while empowering the field with domain knowledge. • Deep hands-on expertise with AI, such as designing or implementing AI-powered solutions, advising on AI adoption, or acting as an AI subject matter expert for customers or internal teams. • Practical background in modern software development or operations, including CI/CD, DevSecOps practices, and related tooling. • Knowledge of cloud computing concepts and architectures, and how cloud services integrate into secure, scalable application delivery. • Ability to design and explain technical architectures that span multiple teams and phases of the software lifecycle, from planning through monitoring. • Skill in leading technical evaluations and workshops (for example, proofs of value or solution design sessions) with diverse stakeholders, from engineers to executives. • Strong communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to act as a trusted advisor and customer advocate across sales, product, and engineering teams. • Openness to learning and growth, with experience building new skills over time; candidates with transferable experience in adjacent domains (for example security, data, or cloud architecture) are encouraged to apply. • This role sits within GitLab’s global Solutions Architecture Center of Excellence, our distributed team of subject matter experts focused on AI, application security, and monetization. Our mission is to accelerate GitLab’s market leadership by helping shape how customers adopt GitLab and partnering with Sales, Product, and Engineering to drive successful platform outcomes. We collaborate asynchronously across regions, sharing best practices, reusable assets, and field insights that influence product direction and go-to-market motions. As an AI-focused Solutions Architect on our team, you’ll help tackle complex customer challenges around AI adoption, security, and value realization, while contributing to the technical standards, frameworks, and thought leadership that support GitLab’s most strategic accounts. • How GitLab will support you • 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 • 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. • Country Hiring Guidelines:
Responsibilities
• You will be operating as an AI SME with a focus on Platforms • Lead technical discovery, architecture design, demos, and end-to-end evaluations (POC/POV) to validate GitLab as the preferred agentic, AI-powered DevSecOps platform for prospects and customers. • Drive AI-focused solution strategy as the team’s AI subject matter expert, including competitive positioning and business value justifications. • Own the technical strategy and influence Customer Success Plans for assigned accounts, acting as the “technical CTO” to guide multi-team, multi-year transformation initiatives across the DevSecOps lifecycle. • Collaborate with Sales, Customer Success, Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to shape account strategies, inform territory planning, and ensure successful platform adoption. • Provide advanced technical guidance during the pre-sales cycle, including tender and audit support, workshop design, and solving complex integration and implementation challenges. • Serve as the voice of the customer by translating real-world feedback into product requirements, documentation improvements, and roadmap input, especially for AI, security, and platform capabilities. • Create and share reusable technical assets such as reference architectures, working examples, best practice guides, and internal enablement content to scale impact across regions. • Mentor other Solutions Architects, contribute to global initiatives for the Center of Excellence, and act as an external industry authority through thought leadership, standards participation, and ecosystem relationships.
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