Senior Solutions architect

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers.

We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.

We are seeking a highly skilled and customer-focused Senior Solutions Architect – Cloud Native / CaaS to join our
Global Presales Organization
, reporting to the
Senior Director, Presales
.

The Senior Solutions Architect will serve as a technical subject‑matter expert and strategic advisor for customers, partners, and internal teams, with a strong focus on Cloud-as-a-Service (CaaS), cloud‑native platforms, Kubernetes, storage, networking, automation, and cloud migration technologies.

This role will work closely with customers and cross‑functional teams to understand complex business and technical challenges, architect innovative solutions, demonstrate platform capabilities, develop proof‑of‑concepts, and build automation frameworks that accelerate adoption and migration across heterogeneous cloud environments.

The ideal candidate combines deep hands‑on engineering expertise with strong customer‑facing presales skills and the ability to take a solution from concept through architecture, proof‑of‑concept, demonstration, and production adoption.

In your daily job you will:

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers, partners, and field sales teams throughout the customer lifecycle.
• Engage with customers to understand their business objectives, technical requirements, application architectures, and cloud transformation strategies.
• Develop end-to-end solution architectures leveraging CaaS, Kubernetes, cloud‑native infrastructure, storage, networking, and automation technologies.
• Lead technical discovery sessions, architecture workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and executive-level technical discussions.
• Deliver compelling technical presentations and customized
  customer demonstrations
  showcasing platform capabilities and business value.
• Support account teams in developing technical strategies, proposals, RFP/RFI responses, and solution positioning.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes for both technical and executive audiences.

Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 8+ years of experience
  in solutions architecture, systems engineering, cloud architecture, technical consulting,…