Solutions Architect - MENA

What you’ll do:

• Lead technical discovery, demos, and validation to show how GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform meets customers' technical and business needs across the full lifecycle.
• Drive the technical evaluation process as the directly responsible individual, including solution design, POC/POV ownership, workshop design, and the technical components of tenders, audits, and value stream assessments.
• Collaborate with Account Executives and regional sales teams across MENA to shape and execute account strategies that support new customer acquisition and expansion.

What you’ll bring:

• 5+ years of experience engaging with customers in technical pre-sales, consulting, or similar roles, guiding them through solution design and evaluation.
• Proficiency with the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including modern DevSecOps practices and continuous integration and continuous deployment workflows.
• Hands-on experience with GitLab or comparable source control, CI/CD, and collaboration platforms, and the ability to map platform capabilities to customer use cases.

About the team:

• The Solutions Architect team is part of GitLab's Sales organization and serves as the technical counterpart to Account Executives, with this role focused on opportunities across MENA.
• Our mission is to help customers realize the full value of GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform by advising on architecture, running technical evaluations such as proofs of value, and guiding customers through their digital transformation.
• We work closely with Sales, Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing, collaborating asynchronously across regions to share best practices, create reusable technical collateral, and act as the voice of the customer.