Lead Solutions Architect (VMware Cloud Foundation) - UAE, Remote

About the role

The Solutions Architect provides technical leadership and strategic guidance to enterprise customers adopting VMware by Broadcom solutions, with a primary focus on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The role translates business priorities into secure, scalable and resilient private cloud architectures, working with customers, account teams, partners and product specialists from initial strategy and technical evaluation through implementation planning, platform adoption and ongoing optimisation.

Key responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with business and technical stakeholders, understand customer priorities and assess existing infrastructure to identify modernisation opportunities.
• Design integrated solutions across compute, storage, networking, security, automation and operations using VMware Cloud Foundation, addressing availability, performance, recoverability, manageability and security.
• Lead architecture workshops, technical presentations, demonstrations and proofs of concept, defining success criteria and validating solutions against customer requirements.
• Partner with account teams to develop proposals, respond to technical requirements and explain architectural choices, operational benefits and investment considerations to technical and executive audiences.
• Develop future-state architectures and adoption roadmaps to help customers modernise infrastructure, migrate workloads and expand VCF usage.
• Work with professional services, systems integrators and customer teams to keep architecture aligned during implementation, documenting assumptions, dependencies, risks and design decisions.
• Share customer feedback with product management and engineering teams.

Required profile

• Demonstrated experience in enterprise solutions architecture, technical consulting or technical sales, with a strong background in virtualisation and private cloud infrastructure.
• Proven ability to lead customer workshops, technical evaluations and architecture discussions.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including explaining complex technical concepts to business leaders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills; ability to collaborate across sales, engineering, services and partners.
• Preferred: relevant VMware certification such as VCP-VCF Architect, experience with VCF Automation and VCF Operations, familiarity with VMware Kubernetes, VMware Defend, Avi Load Balancer or Private AI, and a degree in IT, computer science or a related field.

Required skills

• Strong knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation, including Sphere, VSAN and NSX.
• Understanding of infrastructure automation, operational management, networking, storage, disaster recovery and security architecture.