Senior Partner Solutions Architect

Responsibilities

• Lead technical enablement programs for partners, equipping their teams to successfully implement and drive adoption of Chainguard Containers and Libraries.
• Partner with the alliances and channel team (Partner Account Managers, AEs, SEs, and CSMs) to understand partner capabilities, pain points, and go-to-market motions to drive joint strategies, value realization, and mutual growth.
• Develop and maintain partner-facing technical content, including integration guides, reference architectures, and best practices.
• Support partners in post-sales technical engagements, including co-delivery of implementations, architecture reviews, and escalation support.
• Act as the primary technical liaison between the partner ecosystem and Chainguard's Product and Engineering teams, conveying partner-sourced requirements and feedback.
• Build and maintain a deep understanding of partner technical competencies, identifying gaps and designing enablement programs.
• Maintain partner-level architecture documentation and share best practices and lessons learned.
• Collaborate, teach, and learn from both the Chainguard team and the broader partner community.

Requirements

• Minimum 4+ years experience in a post-sales role supporting clients, preferably with experience in a partner-facing technical role such as partner engineering, alliances, or channel solutions architecture.
• 8+ years of experience developing high-performance multi-tier applications.
• Strong experience in Kubernetes and Containers.
• Experience working with or within a partner ecosystem (SIs, ISVs, resellers, or technology alliances) and understanding of how partners go to market.
• Ability to communicate technical information to both highly technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to create scalable technical enablement programs and content for partner audiences.
• Continuous learner with strong intellectual drive.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology.
• Strong working experience with software development processes, practices, and software engineering design concepts.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional engineering teams, alliances, and business partners.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
• Located in the Eastern Time Zone.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in a partner-facing technical role.