Senior Solutions Architect, Financial Services - Gitlab - Remote, US

As a Senior Solutions Architect, you'll be a trusted advisor to financial services customers in the New York area, helping them understand how GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform can meet both their technical and regulatory needs across the full software development lifecycle. You'll guide banks, fintechs, and other financial institutions through modernization and digital transformation, using your technical expertise, understanding of cloud and secure software delivery, and strong customer empathy to connect platform capabilities to risk, compliance, and business outcomes. Reporting to a regional Solutions Architect Manager and partnering closely with Account Executives and cross-functional teams, you'll own technical evaluations (including proofs of value and workshops), shape architectures that fit financial services constraints, and serve as the voice of these customers back to Product Management. In your first year, you'll focus on driving successful GitLab platform adoption in commercial financial services accounts across time zones in North America, influencing revenue growth through solution selling, and building long-term, trust-based relationships that highlight GitLab's differentiated position in an AI-driven DevSecOps landscape for regulated industries. Lead technical discovery, demos, and validation (including proofs of value) to show how GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform addresses the technical, regulatory, and business needs of financial services customers across the full software lifecycle. Drive the technical evaluation process as the Directly Responsible Individual, including solution design, POC/POV ownership, workshop design, and support for the technical components of tenders, audits, and value stream assessments. Collaborate with Account Executives and regional sales teams to shape and execute account strategies that support new customer acquisition and expansion within financial services. Build and deepen relationships with technical practitioners and business stakeholders at financial services organizations, guiding them through GitLab-driven digital transformation and enabling them to become GitLab advocates. Advise customers on modern software development, continuous integration, continuous deployment, security, and cloud practices in the context of financial services risk, governance, and compliance expectations. Serve as the voice of enterprise financial services customers with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing by sharing feedback, use cases, and competitive insights that inform roadmap, positioning, and industry-focused solutions. Maintain and extend your expertise in GitLab, DevSecOps, AI, and related cloud technologies, creating reusable examples, best practice guidance, and technical collateral tailored to financial services customers and partners. Invest in your own growth and development through ongoing learning, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to continuously improve the impact of the Solutions Architect team supporting financial services.