Professional Services Technical Architect

ABOUT THE ROLE As a Professional Services Technical Architect at GitLab, you will lead the technical direction of customer engagements from early scoping and discovery through delivery. This role combines deep technical expertise with customer-facing leadership in a remote, asynchronous, and values-driven environment. WHAT YOU'LL DO You will design high-level architectures and implementation plans for GitLab infrastructure and functionality, ensuring deliverables align with customer requirements and the Statement of Work (SOW). Your responsibilities will include: - Designing and delivering GitLab reference architecture implementations for both self-managed and cloud environments, using infrastructure as code practices - Leading source code management and CI/CD migrations to GitLab, including large-scale enterprise moves using Congregate - Building repeatable delivery kits, documentation, and enablement materials that help Professional Services and partners deploy and adopt GitLab best practices - Leading the full technical delivery lifecycle for GitLab Professional Services engagements, from early scoping and technical discovery through implementation and handoff - Producing high-level and detailed technical designs for GitLab infrastructure and functionality, ensuring deliverables align with customer requirements and expectations - Evaluating and communicating scalability and security considerations (including compliance constraints) in proposed GitLab reference architectures and implementation plans - Deploying and configuring GitLab in customer environments, including on-premises and major cloud providers, using Terraform, Ansible, and the GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET) aligned to reference architectures - Planning and executing source system migrations to GitLab using Congregate, partnering closely with customer stakeholders to reduce risk, protect data integrity, and minimize downtime - Providing DevOps and DevSecOps consulting and best-practice guidance, including advising on internal frameworks such as the Delivery Governance Framework (DGF) and GitLab Flow - Coordinating and overseeing implementation work across GitLab team members, partners, and customer points of contact (POCs), ensuring clear asynchronous communication and decision capture, effective execution, and high-quality outcomes - Mentoring Professional Services and partner consultants by contributing documentation, delivery kits, and training materials, and by leading enablement sessions on how to deliver and position service offerings - Maintaining and improving delivery automation assets with an emphasis on code cleanliness, maintainability, and appropriate unit/integration testing - Supporting scoping and Statement of Work (SOW) creation with Professional Services Engagement Managers, staying current on monthly GitLab releases, and helping Regional Delivery Managers with technical vetting and staffing assessments while maintaining a 55% billable utilization - Reviewing and providing input to Professional Services training materials and presentations - Developing case studies, presentations, design documentation, and best-practice methodologies - Working closely with customer project teams to ensure accurate task-level articulation of work required WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to lead technical discussions with customers and partners and communicate risks/trade-offs clearly in an asynchronous environment - Comfortable with up to 25% travel at times - Demonstrated experience delivering two or more of the following consulting services: source code management migration, cloud architecture, DevOps engineering, or continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI