Solution Architect - Rapid Portfolio Modernization - Opportunity for Working Remotely

Work Here. Transform Everywhere. The most advanced companies in the world turn to VMware to manage, grow and transform their business. When you work here, you’re connected to a global community of innovative, empowered employees working together to solve the most critical technology challenges. Here, your talents are amplified—for the good of your career and the good of each other. Here, you’re surrounded by a culture of possibility, where ideas ripple out and have a positive impact on customers and communities everywhere. The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity? Digital transformation is a phrase overused to describe a complex array of initiatives and programs. Modernization across the application portfolio is essential, yet many IT organizations struggle to get traction, quantify outcomes and deliver at scale. Rapid Portfolio Modernization (RPM) is a prescribed set of consulting services used to accelerate and unlock complex digital transformation initiatives. RPM is delivered by a global team of specialist Solution Architects (app and platform) and Program Strategists, who find opportunity within customer’s application and platform portfolio using powerful discovery tools, define iterative roadmaps using proven techniques and drive “reasonable first steps” forward with hands-on agile practices. VMware is doubling down on this approach and aggressively growing our team. Your opportunity on this team is to collaborate with customers who face these challenges, and work closely with our amazingly talented Solution Architects - both platform as well as application specialists, to cut through ambiguity, plan roadmaps, measure and prove value during short yet impactful consulting engagements. The process relies on your creativity to gather needed information, draw business insights, and turn those insights into cohesive and flexible strategies that meet evolving customer expectations. It would involve hands-on cloud platform architecture at large enterprises with vast, heterogeneous platform landscape that spans multiple technology generations. The goal is to deliver high-quality, reliable and scalable outcomes in the cloud modernization space. Short (hours, days or a handful of weeks) engagements mean an exciting, fast-paced set of conversations where you will uplevel your people and process management skills while sharpening your storytelling capacities. Short engagements also mean a lot of iteration - a unique opportunity to practice your craft, help shape our team’s template for success, and develop your eye for patterns in the industry. Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing? You’ll work by pairing with customers (who are modernizing legacy platforms and applications) and your VMware colleagues to understand the current application and platform landscape as well as the end-to-end path to production workflow. You will use a variety of automated tools, facilitate customer workshops, get hands-on with existing systems (full stack across apps, cloud / legacy platform including network flows) and DevOps pipelines, and define tangible paths forward that deliver measured efficiencies. The goal is to develop an incremental and pragmatic blueprint and/or roadmap for cloud transformation, build data-driven decision models tuned to their specific goals, and be hands-on to help prove it all. You’ll work closely with your peers right from the start to understand and iterate on our practices to make them more impactful, repeatable, and scalable as our team grows. Within 30 days, you’ll understand the VMware and related platforms and products used by our customers. Within two months, you’ll join a team of Program Strategists and other Solution Architects on a customer engagement. You’ll interview customer engineers, run automated analysis tools, and help the team make decisions based on the data you collect. You’ll get “hands on” with existing DevOps pipelines and platforms to improve and/or modernize it in order to prove the value of our software and solutions. Within three months, you’ll be leading workshops and other discovery practices on customer engagements, and helping new team members understand and apply those practices. As a rapidly-growing team, we expect that within the first year you’ll have opportunities to work with teams across VMware to find new ways to help drive customer success on our platforms through application modernization. The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis? While every customer engagement is different, you can expect a variety of the following: Be part of short and impactful projects - from a few hours to six weeks (at most) - focused on helping customers determine and prove first viable steps in complex scenarios. Be facilitating workshops, using agile techniques to understand system and platform design and plan future state landing zone and platform topologies. Enable customer teams to continue their modernization journey across their portfolio of applications in a sustainable way after our engagement is over. Create documentation and playbooks capturing concrete tactical patterns for modernizing large complex software systems that involve many teams, technologies, and platforms. Lead internal initiatives that improve our delivery tooling and methodologies. Contribute back to the VMware team through mentorship, giving talks, and experience reports. Help with pre-sales, conferences and cloud technology evangelism as time permits. Which previous experiences, skills, backgrounds do we want to see from you? We want to see some of below knowledge, experiences, skills from you: 10+ years of platform architecture, engineering and management experience You are a great written and verbal communicator, capable of public speaking and presenting in front of customers, at user groups, etc. Deep and broad knowledge of VMware private, hybrid and public cloud technologies Have architected and/or operated complex production software systems Knowledge of and operational experience with methodologies related to agile and DevOps Analytical ability, problem-solving skills and ability to break down complex problems into actionable steps Demonstrated ability to initiate change across large enterprises including strategy and adoption of platforms, processes and modernization initiatives Active participant collaborating with peers to drive delivery consistency Experience in training, mentoring and/or upskilling others Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work and challenging problems Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) tools Up to 50% travel expected in this role Ability to Work From Home until sufficient resolution of the COVID-19 Crisis And below is a list of skills we value, not mandatory. This is not a checklist. If you have some of these skills, and want to grow into others, then we want to hear from you. Ability to speak any of following Asian languages – Korean, Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin, etc. Experience with Kubernetes or related automation / orchestration tools Experience with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud or OpenStack Experience with a platform as a service product such as Cloud Foundry, Heroku, Elastic Beanstalk, Tanzu, Red Hat OpenShift or similar Solid understanding of systems monitoring, alerting and analytics Experience contributing to the broader Open Source and Modern Applications ecosystem (contributing to Kubernetes SIGs, Meetups and similar) Experience in delivering IT automation / scripted infrastructure projects Experience with modern IT infrastructure (Server, Storage, Network and IT Security) and hosting operation One or more industry known certifications in cloud (AWS, Google, Azure) or Linux Foundation (CKA, CKS) etc. What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like? We are big thinkers who generate a lot of ideas, debate with kindness, collaborate on initiatives that matter, and maintain a safe space for all. We support each other by whatever means necessary, and trust each other to get the job done right, in a way that accommodates a flexible schedule to balance work and life. We look forward to welcoming team members, and work hard to make sure the onboarding process is smooth. Where is this role located? Today the job is fully remote preferably based in Singapore or any other Asia countries such as South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, etc. involving travel across Asia Pacific and Japan, and it’s hard to accurately predict what the future may hold. We prioritize project staffing based on requirements, skill, and location. We believe the fastest way to build customer rapport and authentic relationships is in person. While some customers are OK with working in a part / full remote fashion, we expect travel-based delivery (potentially over 50% overall) to be commonplace. Having flexibility to accommodate this reality is important. What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware? You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting https://benefits.vmware.com/. Generous Time Off Programs 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community Rethink's Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.) Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes What happens once you apply? End of Application: Open until Filled (Encouraged to apply immediately) Recruitment process Application review Recruiter phone interview 3 rounds of hiring team interviews Background check Offer The recruitment process may be different depending on the job and maybe changed due to scheduling and circumstances. Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage. Category : Services and Consulting Subcategory: Consultant Experience: Business Leadership Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time Posted Date: 2023-01-26 VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. 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