Leads SUSE’s West Coast Solution Architect team supporting enterprise software sales. Responsibilities include mentoring and hiring technical presales professionals, guiding customer engagements, proofs of concept, technical qualification and closure, competitive positioning, CRM practices, and collaboration with sales, customer success, product, strategy, engineering, and partners. The role requires deep knowledge of Linux, open source, cloud, and Kubernetes technologies, plus executive-level customer engagement and consultative selling expertise.