VMware Tanzu Product Value Engineering

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Job Description:

Product Value Engineers (PVEs) are key customer-facing technical advisors for VMware Tanzu. This strategic role bridges customer business needs with Tanzu's capabilities, designing viable solutions, articulating tangible value, and prescribing optimal cloud-native architectures and consumption strategies. PVEs help drive successful Tanzu adoption in focus accounts, influencing customers, Product Management, and leadership, while shaping the product roadmap.

The PVE role integrates:

• Platform, Application & Data Architecture & Operations:
  Deep expertise in Modern Enterprise Platforms, Application & Data Architecture with a special focus on VCF-based Private Clouds.
• Customer Adoption:
  Orchestrating initial, high-impact adoption in strategic accounts.
• Tanzu Product Feedback Loop:
  Communicating field learnings and blockers to Product Management to influence the roadmap.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Customer Architecture:
Design and lead phased adoption and consumption plans across Tanzu Platform, Tanzu Data, and Tanzu Spring, defining future-state cloud-native architectures spanning application, data, and platform layers.

Value Engineering & Business Alignment: translate customer business objectives (e.g., accelerated time-to-market, developer productivity, resiliency, and cost optimization) into ROI-driven solutions leveraging Tanzu Platform, Spring-based application modernization, and Tanzu Data services.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

Partner with Sales, Pre-Sales, Professional Services, and ecosystem Partners to ensure cohesive execution across Tanzu Platform, Data, and Spring from architectural strategy through production implementation.

Technical Expertise:
Maintain deep hands-on expertise across the Tanzu portfolio, with particular focus on Tanzu Platform operations, Spring application frameworks, and cloud-native data services.

Hands-On Engagement & Scalable Engagement:
Lead high-fidelity technical engagements-including architecture workshops, POCs, and pilots-and develop production-grade reference architectures, design patterns, and operational runbooks for Tanzu Platform, Tanzu Data, and Tanzu Spring at scale.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• BA/BS in Engineering or Computer Science required with 12+ Years Equivalent Industry Experience or MA/MS Engineering or Computer Science with 10+ Years Equivalent Industry Experience.
• Ten (10) or more years of Information Technology experience.
• App Dev / Platform Architecture Team Leadership OR pre-sales customer facing experience
• Strong listening and question based consultative skills.
• Strong relationship building skills.
• Ability to effectively present to audiences and adjust to level of role and understanding.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
• Broad, domain level architectural understanding of:
  • Enterprise Platform & Modern Application Architecture
  • Data services for cloud-native applications, including transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads
  • Experience modernizing legacy applications using Spring patterns, cloud-native design principles, and API-driven architectures.
  • AI-Enabled Application Platform Design
  • Application Modernization & Cloud-Native Transformation
  • Dev Sec Ops , Reliability & Platform Operations

PREFERRED

SKILLS:

• Architecture and operational experience with Tanzu Platform on VCF.
• Experience positioning and integrating Tanzu Data services (e.g., Postgre
  
  SQL, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Gem Fire, Greenplum) into application platforms.
• Knowledge of data lifecycle management, resiliency, scaling, and operational best practices.
• Strong knowledge of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and Spring-based microservices architectures.
• Solution design, implementation, and consultation experience.
• Advanced certifications (Examples - CKA, CKAD, etc.) are a plus.
• Government security clearance at multiple levels is highly desirable

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