Hybrid Principal Community Architect – FSI

at Red Hat

• Job title: Principal Community Architect – FSI
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $160,910 - $265,380 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Open Source
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Principal Community Architect in Red Hat’s Open Source and AI Program Office for the financial services industry. Engaging stakeholders and developing community strategies for vertical markets.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the open source community engagement strategy for financial services and the use cases that will advance open source, and Red Hat’s technology and business strategy.
• Rationalize Red Hat’s community commitments in the FSI vertical and influence the community with Red Hat’s opinionated technical choices to further Red Hat’s technology and business strategy.
• Connect with and facilitate connections between stakeholders from the Field, Ecosystem Engineering, Partner Enablement, and the FSI stakeholders to community members to facilitate developer outreach into FSI.
• Facilitate strategic partnerships as identified as part of the strategy.
• Provide regular, proactive updates to OSAIPO leadership.
• Conduct data gathering and analysis of vertical community players, such as key open source projects, industry standards bodies, vertical consortias, and software foundations.
• Understand and model scenarios of regulatory impacts.
• Automate the scanning of industry news to understand OSS implications.
• Develop and update the competitive landscape map.
• Provide a trusted, neutral perspective partnering with the Office of the CTO.
• Help stakeholders understand how to create the most value while determining how to allocate finite resources.
• Provide technical and architectural guidance. Act as an expert across a group of projects in a particular area and steer collaboration across projects.
• Work independently to set and achieve objectives tied to functional targets and goals.
• Propose new techniques and methods based on business context that have impact within the function.
• Coordinate activities of other team members (team lead) to ensure successful completion of projects and assignments, and mentor/provide guidance and advice to new team members.
• Work on varied and non-routine projects and resolve complex issues with creative solutions that impact overall function.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships within sales and CTO function and lead cooperative efforts among teams to deliver results.
• Interact with senior colleagues and customers frequently

Requirements

• Solid understanding of the FSI space; Typically, a minimum of 5 years of related professional experience to develop sufficient expertise.
• Exceptional writing and speaking skills
• Solid organizational skills and ability to prioritize the tasks that match short and long-term goals; ability to focus on those tasks and exclude less relevant tasks
• Experience with open source developer communities; understanding of development processes and open source licensing
• Proven track record building community engagement and engaging with multiple community stakeholders to achieve company goals
• Will have overseen the origination and growth of a new project or community initiative.
• Experience building communities online through social media and other tools is a plus

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
• Retirement 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!