Virtual Technical Sales Architect Manager

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equity and inclusion are shared values. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

The Boeing Digital Aviation Solutions (DAS) Technical Sales Architect Manager must have a broad technical background with experience in modernization and understanding a large portfolio of legacy monolithic applications and how they become distributed, cloud native, software solutions. The candidate needs strong people and technology leadership, analytical skills, teamwork, and excellent communication skills. The candidate will need to communicate at different levels in the customer and internal organizations, from CXO levels to key business and technical decision makers, to influence our revenue, market-share, and customer satisfaction growth.  This role will drive innovative, evolutionary, reliable, scalable solutions discussions that advance Boeing’s thought leadership and trusted-advisor status in the aviation industry.

At Boeing Digital Aviation Solutions you’ll be a part of a team that creates innovative digital solutions and analytics that drive the future and evolution of Digital Aviation and enable our customers to transform the way they do business. Using agile digital technology, our solutions optimize all aspects of the flight ecosystem including safety, environmental sustainability, and efficiency – delivering value and protecting our customers and the planet.

Position Responsibilities:

• Build, lead, and manage a team of Technical Sales Architects who are globally responsible for building and strengthening CIO, CTO, CDO, and CSO relationships within our CA, BA, and GA customer base. This is a player-coach role.
• Manage a team of Technical Sales professionals for one of more geographies and/or Global Technical Sales geographic coverage requirements. Provides oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes. Manages, develops and motivates employees.
• Partner with the DAS CTO and leaders to understand the business and needs that drive technology decisions.
• Collaborate on a technology roadmap by working closely with CTO and other sales, services, development, and support leaders on positioning the roadmap and competitive positioning with customers and our field Sales Directors, Technical Sales and Services Leaders in our Global DAS Sales team.
• Create, with your TSA team, the messaging and content which aligns with our DAS CTO strategy on modernization of legacy, monolithic applications, and architecting innovative, greenfield applications.
• Effectively discuss and convey strategies, patterns, practices and approaches for modernizing and refactoring legacy applications
• Effectively discuss and convey applications design which is adaptable, cost-optimized, cloud-native SaaS in a globally distributed, multi-platform environment.
• Leverage your knowledge and experience to help customers make technology decisions that drive innovation and agility while minimizing risks and costs.
• Own the customer CXO discussion for the creation of mechanisms and architectural artifacts that communicate technology adoption, decisions and how DAS applications are hosted, built and deployed.
• Be aware and participate in Architectural Standards and Practices discussions with internal CTO team and customer CXO’s.
• Assist in evaluation of products for being well-architected and well-managed from a customer’s point of view.
• Work closely with internal Information Security Office and Enterprise Cloud teams internally and in our DAS customer base, to ensure security standards and regulatory compliance are discussed.  Our coaching and guiding customer CXO/Technical Decision Makers discussions are key to creating and maintaining the trusted advisor status for you and your TSA team.

This position has been identified as a virtual opportunity and does not require applicants to live in (Raleigh, NC, U.S.)

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• At least 5+ years of experience in software, application solutions, development and architecture in highly regulated industries.
• 10+ yrs of experience working with software development design patterns, methodology and life cycle
• 5+ yrs of experience/awareness working with legacy technology modernization and refactoring techniques such as domain driven design (DDD), event storming, strangler fig, transitional architectures, etc.
• 5+ yrs of experience working with distributed, cloud-native, API and Microservices architecture including service orchestration
• 5+ yrs of experience/awareness working with application performance management technologies, diagnostics, and issue resolution management
• 5+ yrs of experience/awareness in development frameworks, cloud native technologies and tools, such as CI/CD pipelines, UML, Java, .Net, Docker, Kubernetes, JavaScript, Google, AWS, AZURE, and IBM clouds
• Experience/awareness working with delivering High Availability (HA), resilient solutions that meet regulatory requirements and information security standards.
• Proven experience working with customer CIO, CDO, CSO, and key technical decision makers in to influence, advise, compare and recommend technology solutions.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Strong interpersonal, communication and organization skills
• Ability to prepare and present Technical Sales Architecture and technical solutions content internally and externally.

Typical Education/ Experience:

Typical education and experience described in our standard level guides are aligned to the type and number of years of experience/education required to perform the job in industry. For management positions, our industry sources do not specify typical experience/education. For reference you may review the non-management level guide most relevant to the work performed.

Relocation:

This position is located in a location that does not offer relocation.  Candidates must live in the immediate area or relocate at their own expense.

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies. 

Shift: 1

Average Pay Summary:

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent.  Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities. 

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work. 

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements

Applications for this position will be accepted through Feb 26th, 2024

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.