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Senior Solutions Architect, Global SI (India)
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Role overview
Senior Solutions Architect, Global SI (India)
Requirements and responsibilities
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What you'll do
- Collaborate with Ecosystem Sales Managers and partner sales leaders to shape and execute Partner Activation Plans that drive partner-sourced pipeline and GitLab adoption.
- Own the technical aspects of partner activation, including building and delivering demos, reference architectures, and workshops that support contribution, commitment, and capability activation.
- Serve as the Directly Responsible Individual on partner technical activation plans, ensuring technical risks and gaps are identified, addressed, and aligned to mutual GitLab, partner, and customer outcomes.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with technical and business stakeholders at partners so they progress from awareness to actively leading high-value activities like deal registrations and solution development.
- Act as the partner advocate to internal teams by sharing field feedback and insights with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Partner Enablement to influence roadmap and programs.
Must Haves
- India-based and authorized to work in India (Bangalore, Mumbai, or Delhi).
- Senior-level technical pre-sales / Solutions Architect / sales engineering experience; able to guide stakeholders through solution design and evaluation.
- Proficiency across the end-to-end software development lifecycle, modern DevSecOps practices, and CI/CD workflows; hands-on experience with GitLab or a comparable source-control / CI-CD / DevSecOps platform, with the ability to map platform capabilities to customer use cases.
- Demonstrated experience working with or leadership roles inside India-based GSIs — partner-facing or delivery/practice side. This is the line that makes it a GSI hire, not a generic SA.
- Channel / cloud / partner-ecosystem fluency: understands partner-sourced motion, deal registration, co-sell, and services-led GTM — not a direct-sales-only background.
- Communicates credibly from practitioner to executive; can own a technical activation plan as the DRI.
- Embraces AI as a core productivity multiplier and incorporates it into daily workflow.
Nice To Haves
- An existing network inside one or more of the named GSIs. - not merely as a line-worker, though
- Experience standing up partner delivery practices, enablement tracks, or certification programs.
- Cloud-marketplace / hyperscaler co-sell familiarity (AWS or GCP) — a plus, not a requirement.
- Depth in GitLab, AI development, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, or application security (SAST/DAST).
- Coverage value beyond India proper (APAC GSI delivery hubs).
How GitLab will support you
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
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