Lead Solutions Architect; East Coast

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in Dev Sec Ops  and throughout the software development life cycle.

Are you interested in joining a fast-growing organization in the application security space, which is in the top spot of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for application security? Are you a technologist who wants to make a massive impact on Customers and help them develop high-quality, secure software faster? We want to speak to you!

We are seeking a motivated post sales Solution Architect to join ourProfessional

Services team. The ideal candidate will bridge the technical and business requirements of our security solutions, working closely with new customers or prospects along with Black Duck pre-sales and services teams toidentifythe best workflow forutilizingour solutions to satisfy the customer’s needs.

Scoping the services required to achieve this, including both product and strategy consulting, mapping out a blueprint of how to implement our products to achieve the recommended solution that satisfies the customer’s compliance requirements at scale.

• Leadsolutionarchitecture discussions and develop plans and steps to integrate
  
  Black Duck productsintocustomer
  
  Dev Sec Ops workflows

• Analyze customer environments and requirements to design and propose the servicesrequiredto best utilize
  
  Black Duck products for their needs

• Identify the need for strategy consulting to help build out the customer’s App Sec program and compliance directives, and work with strategy consulting to scope the required services

• Collaborate with services teams and sales leads, along withthe product teams,to scope, document, and deliver customer solutions as warranted.

• Closely working with the implementation team to ensure the proposed solution is implemented as designed andadaptingasrequired.

• Identify, document, and communicate best practices and bake into proposed solutions.

• Create and deliver compelling technical presentations and documentation tailored to various technical and business stakeholders

• Provide technical consultation on static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and dynamic application security testing (DAST) solutions

• Learn new software development technologies and techniques to better understand how Black Duck products and/or services can be used.

• Collaborate with product teams, and other functional groups, by providing customer feedback and ideas for how to improve Black Duck products and services.

• Act as a mentor to others

• 5+ years’ experience in consulting, solution architecture, or related customer facing technical role

• Technical background in software development or scripting

• Deep knowledge of the SDLC is essential

• Exposure to Dev Ops tools and CI/CD pipelines

• e.g.5+ years’ experience as a software developer

• Solid understanding of software container concepts, including images, containers, registries, and container life cycles

• Hands-on experience with container technologies such as Docker or equivalent container runtimes

• Experience scoping custom solutions and scripting,identifyingedge cases and blockers up front to ensure the solution is achievable

• Able and willing to travel up to 20% as the job requires