Principal Solutions Architect, Professional Services (West Coast Preferred)

Overview

Principal Solutions Architect for Docker’s Professional Services organization, building and scaling solution architecture patterns for customer success in agentic workloads.

What you'll do

• Develop and codify repeatable reference architecture patterns for self-hosted and air-gapped deployments and related use cases.
• Convert reference architectures into customer-facing collateral, SOW templates, and delivery success patterns.
• Collaborate with product, marketing, and revenue teams to integrate services into GTM motions and align delivery to the AI platform roadmap.
• Advise enterprise customers on containerization, AI workflows, and secure software supply chains.
• Lead architecture engagements across enterprise integration layers and deliver self-hosted Docker deployments for air-gapped, regulated environments.
• Design and guide customers through agentic AI toolchains, including MCP architecture, orchestration, observability integration, and secure deployment patterns.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across stakeholders without formal reporting authority and translate field insights into strategy and roadmap inputs.

What you'll need

• 7+ years as a Professional Services Solution Architect, Technical Consultant, or similar role.
• Experience architecting and deploying self-hosted and air-gapped deployment architectures, including local image registries and offline toolchain configuration.
• Enterprise integration experience with Identity Providers (Okta, Azure AD, LDAP/Active Directory) and federated identity protocols (OIDC, SAML, SSO).
• Working knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) for agentic AI toolchains, including server/client architecture and orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML workflows, LLM deployment, and agentic AI architectures in enterprise environments.
• Deep understanding of container and software supply chain security topics including DHI, SSC, SBOM, image signing/attestation, vulnerability management, and runtime governance.

Details

• Location: Canada.
• Work mode: remote-first; #LI-REMOTE.