Principal Solutions Architect

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Build and Scale the Professional Services Practice
• - Develop and codify repeatable reference architecture patterns across Docker's core use cases
• - Translate reference architectures into customer-facing technical collateral, SOW templates, and success patterns
• - Collaborate with product, marketing, and revenue teams to integrate services into GTM motions
• - Identify offerings that drive product expansion, renewals, and long-term customer value
• - Act as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers
• - Lead technical discovery and architecture engagements
• - Design and guide customers through implementation of agentic AI toolchains
• - Position Docker as a strategic and thought leadership partner
• - Directly deliver or assign and oversee appropriate delivery partners

Required Skills

• - 7+ years as a Professional Services Solution Architect, Technical Consultant, or similar role
• - Demonstrated experience architecting and deploying self-hosted and air-gapped deployment architectures
• - Enterprise integration experience across Identity Providers and federated identity protocols
• - Working knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its application to agentic AI toolchains
• - Hands-on experience with AI/ML workflows, LLM deployment, and agentic AI architectures
• - Deep understanding of container and software supply chain security
• - Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills
• - Direct experience delivering high-quality services engagements

Benefits

• - Remote-first by design
• - Flexibility that fits your life
• - Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and a designated end-of-year Whaleness break
• - Home office support
• - Technology stipend
• - Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning
• - 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment
• - Equity for all full-time employees
• - Comprehensive benefits