IoT Solutions Architecture Manager
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 18 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Remote role in one of the Americas, EMEA or APAC geographies
- Base pay with annual bonus or commission and yearly compensation review
- Requires bachelor’s degree in CS or related field with extensive embedded Linux experience
- Fluency in at least one of Golang, Python, C, C++ or Rust is required
- Personal learning budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Opportunity to use Priority Pass and travel upgrades for company events
Role overview
We are hiring an IoT Solutions Architecture Manager to lead a regionally-focused team of Field Engineers in Presales and Professional Services activities, helping customers with solution architecture, design and delivery. This remote role requires managing a team within a single major time zone in one of the Americas, EMEA or APAC geographies.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of Field engineers, ranging from graduate to senior, in the areas of Presales and Professional Services
- Solve customer problems by promoting Canonical technologies and being a trusted advisor
- Work remotely in a single major time zone
- Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
- Identify and measure team health indicators
- Implement disciplined engineering processes
- Represent your team and product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
- Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
- Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
- Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
Requirements
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Extensive embedded Linux experience – Yocto or other
- Extensive Linux experience – Debian or Ubuntu preferred
- Fluency in at least one of Golang, Python, C, C++ or Rust
- Ability to manage a small team
- Experience with customer engagements
- Professional written and spoken English
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility and accountability
- Result‑oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to communicate the business benefits of technology
- Humble learner and quick study
Nice to have
- RTOS experience
- Additional programming languages beyond the core list
- Additional human languages
- Previous experience working in a remote‑first, diverse, distributed company
Benefits
- Base pay plus performance‑driven annual bonus or commission
- Annual compensation review (more frequent for graduates and associates)
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long‑haul company events
- Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly team sprints in person
Additional details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets
- Ubuntu is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT
- Customers include the world’s leading public cloud and silicon providers and industry leaders in many sectors
- The company is founder‑led, profitable and growing
- Canonical has 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world
- This role is a remote position; you must be located in one of the three Geos (Americas, EMEA or APAC) to manage that specific team
- Our Internet of Things mission is to enable companies to make fleets of very secure connected devices
- Field Engineers are thought leaders who solve hard problems, take a hands‑on approach to embedded Linux strategy and delivery, and care about developing their colleagues
- We are a pioneering tech firm publishing Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
- Canonical is an equal‑opportunity employer and values diversity
- Originally posted on Himalayas