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Solutions Architect Manager roles consistently attract H-1B visa sponsorship from enterprise tech employers, particularly at companies scaling cloud infrastructure teams. Most openings require a bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, and the specialty occupation designation is well-established for this title. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As the Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture - at GitLab, you'll manage a distributed team of Solutions Architects working with customers across the India region. In this player-coach role, you'll guide technical strategy across complex sales motions while also stepping directly into high-impact opportunities to help your team secure technical wins and build customer confidence in GitLab's platform approach. At GitLab, we work at the intersection of technical sales strategy, team development, and operational scale, and you'll help translate customer requirements into clear business outcomes. You'll partner closely with regional go-to-market counterparts and cross-functional teams including Sales, Channel, Marketing, Sales Enablement, Product Management, and the global Solutions Architecture team. In our all-remote environment, you'll help shape how we grow the Solutions Architecture organization across the region by building strong operating rhythms, strengthening executive relationships, and creating the conditions for your team to do their best work. This role suits someone who combines technical depth, strong judgment, and a hands-on approach to winning business and scaling teams.
SOME OF THE TYPES OF PROJECTS YOU'LL WORK ON
- Running technical evaluations, executive workshops, demos, and proof-of-concept engagements that help customers map GitLab's DevSecOps platform to their business goals
- Building regional operating practices that improve team execution, strengthen cross-functional alignment, and scale the impact of Solutions Architects across Asia and India
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Manage a team of intermediate and senior Solutions Architects across India, setting clear direction and enabling high-quality execution across the region.
- Act as a player-coach by partnering directly on strategic opportunities, building executive relationships, and coaching your team through complex sales cycles to help secure the technical win.
- Guide regional strategy for technical evaluations, workshops, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept engagements, ensuring customer needs are translated into meaningful technical and business outcomes.
- Work cross-functionally with global Solutions Architecture, Sales, Channel, Marketing, Sales Enablement, and Product Management to align on priorities and execute against regional goals.
- Manage dotted-line relationships with Channel Solutions Architects and subject matter experts, driving accountability, collaboration, and alignment around common goals.
- Maintain strong operational discipline across workload planning, resource allocation, headcount planning, opportunity forecasting, and field execution.
- Define and track key performance indicators for the team, communicating progress, risks, and priorities clearly to your team, peers, and senior stakeholders.
- Hire, develop, and retain high-performing Solutions Architects while strengthening team capability, encouraging innovation, and building a scalable regional organization for future growth.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- Experience managing technical teams in software or technology sales, pre-sales, consulting, or a related environment, with direct exposure to the India market. Strong background in solution architecture or comparable practical experience, with the ability to relate technical depth to customer business value and apply transferable experience from adjacent domains while learning GitLab and related tools.
- Proven success developing, mentoring, and scaling Solutions Architecture practices or similar customer-facing technical organizations in growing businesses.
- Strong communication and technical presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively across cultures and with both technical and business stakeholders.
- Demonstrated business acumen and sound judgment, balancing technical excellence with commercial outcomes and regional priorities.
- Track record of influencing cross-functional stakeholders and building strong partnerships across Sales, Channel, Marketing, Enablement, Product, and other senior stakeholder groups.
- Experience building inclusive, high-performing teams and creating clear, accountable operating practices in a distributed or remote environment.
- Ability to travel at least 25%.
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
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
COUNTRY HIRING GUIDELINES:
GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.
PRIVACY POLICY:
Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us. GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
INTRODUCTION
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As the Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture - at GitLab, you'll manage a distributed team of Solutions Architects working with customers across the India region. In this player-coach role, you'll guide technical strategy across complex sales motions while also stepping directly into high-impact opportunities to help your team secure technical wins and build customer confidence in GitLab's platform approach. At GitLab, we work at the intersection of technical sales strategy, team development, and operational scale, and you'll help translate customer requirements into clear business outcomes. You'll partner closely with regional go-to-market counterparts and cross-functional teams including Sales, Channel, Marketing, Sales Enablement, Product Management, and the global Solutions Architecture team. In our all-remote environment, you'll help shape how we grow the Solutions Architecture organization across the region by building strong operating rhythms, strengthening executive relationships, and creating the conditions for your team to do their best work. This role suits someone who combines technical depth, strong judgment, and a hands-on approach to winning business and scaling teams.
SOME OF THE TYPES OF PROJECTS YOU'LL WORK ON
- Running technical evaluations, executive workshops, demos, and proof-of-concept engagements that help customers map GitLab's DevSecOps platform to their business goals
- Building regional operating practices that improve team execution, strengthen cross-functional alignment, and scale the impact of Solutions Architects across Asia and India
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Manage a team of intermediate and senior Solutions Architects across India, setting clear direction and enabling high-quality execution across the region.
- Act as a player-coach by partnering directly on strategic opportunities, building executive relationships, and coaching your team through complex sales cycles to help secure the technical win.
- Guide regional strategy for technical evaluations, workshops, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept engagements, ensuring customer needs are translated into meaningful technical and business outcomes.
- Work cross-functionally with global Solutions Architecture, Sales, Channel, Marketing, Sales Enablement, and Product Management to align on priorities and execute against regional goals.
- Manage dotted-line relationships with Channel Solutions Architects and subject matter experts, driving accountability, collaboration, and alignment around common goals.
- Maintain strong operational discipline across workload planning, resource allocation, headcount planning, opportunity forecasting, and field execution.
- Define and track key performance indicators for the team, communicating progress, risks, and priorities clearly to your team, peers, and senior stakeholders.
- Hire, develop, and retain high-performing Solutions Architects while strengthening team capability, encouraging innovation, and building a scalable regional organization for future growth.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- Experience managing technical teams in software or technology sales, pre-sales, consulting, or a related environment, with direct exposure to the India market. Strong background in solution architecture or comparable practical experience, with the ability to relate technical depth to customer business value and apply transferable experience from adjacent domains while learning GitLab and related tools.
- Proven success developing, mentoring, and scaling Solutions Architecture practices or similar customer-facing technical organizations in growing businesses.
- Strong communication and technical presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively across cultures and with both technical and business stakeholders.
- Demonstrated business acumen and sound judgment, balancing technical excellence with commercial outcomes and regional priorities.
- Track record of influencing cross-functional stakeholders and building strong partnerships across Sales, Channel, Marketing, Enablement, Product, and other senior stakeholder groups.
- Experience building inclusive, high-performing teams and creating clear, accountable operating practices in a distributed or remote environment.
- Ability to travel at least 25%.
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
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
COUNTRY HIRING GUIDELINES:
GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.
PRIVACY POLICY:
Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us. GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Solutions Architect Manager
Target enterprise tech and cloud-first employers
Large cloud providers and enterprise software companies sponsor Solutions Architect Managers at higher rates than mid-market firms. These employers have established immigration programs, dedicated HR processes, and prior LCA filings that make sponsorship faster and less uncertain.
Confirm your degree field aligns with the role
H-1B specialty occupation approval requires a direct connection between your degree and the position. Computer science, electrical engineering, and information systems are the strongest fits. Business or general IT degrees can work but may require additional documentation from your employer's immigration attorney.
Lead with technical depth, not just management experience
USCIS evaluates whether the role genuinely requires specialized knowledge. Emphasizing your architecture and technical expertise alongside people management strengthens the specialty occupation argument and reduces the risk of a Request for Evidence.
Ask about cap-exempt sponsorship options early
If you missed the H-1B lottery, universities, nonprofits, and government research organizations can sponsor you without cap restrictions. Some Solutions Architect Manager roles exist in these settings, particularly in research computing, data infrastructure, and academic IT leadership.
Get clarity on the employer's immigration timeline
H-1B sponsorship for a new hire typically begins months before your target start date. Ask hiring managers about their standard immigration process upfront so you can plan around the premium processing option if your timeline is tight and the employer is willing to cover it.
Australian citizens should evaluate the E-3 visa path
The E-3 visa is available exclusively to Australian nationals and has no lottery. It covers specialty occupations including Solutions Architect Manager roles and renews in two-year increments indefinitely, making it a reliable alternative to the H-1B for eligible candidates.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Solutions Architect Manager a recognized specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. USCIS has approved H-1B visa petitions for Solutions Architect Manager roles across a wide range of employers, particularly in cloud computing, enterprise software, and managed services. The key is demonstrating that the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific technical field, not just general management experience. Employers with prior LCA filings for similar titles face less scrutiny.
What degree does a Solutions Architect Manager need to qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
A bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, software engineering, or a closely related technical field is the standard qualification. Degrees in information systems or information technology can qualify but may require your employer to provide additional documentation. General business or MBA degrees alone are unlikely to satisfy specialty occupation requirements without a strong technical undergraduate background underlying them.
How can I find Solutions Architect Manager jobs that offer H-1B or E-3 sponsorship?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically by visa sponsorship availability, so you can browse Solutions Architect Manager openings from employers already willing to sponsor H-1B, E-3 visa, or other work visas. This saves significant time compared to applying broadly and discovering sponsorship limitations late in the process, which is a common and costly frustration for international candidates.
Does prior H-1B lottery selection affect my chances of getting sponsored as a Solutions Architect Manager?
Not directly. If you were previously selected in the lottery and are transferring employers, your new employer files an H-1B transfer petition that is not subject to the cap or lottery. If you've never been selected, cap-subject sponsorship depends on lottery timing. Cap-exempt options through nonprofits or universities bypass this entirely and are worth exploring if the lottery is your main obstacle.
Are there common RFE triggers for Solutions Architect Manager H-1B petitions?
Yes. USCIS sometimes challenges whether a management-titled role genuinely requires a specific technical degree rather than broad business experience. Employers can reduce this risk by documenting that the role involves complex architecture decisions, technical leadership over specialized engineers, and hands-on system design, not just team administration. A detailed job description tied to a specific technical field significantly strengthens the petition.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Solutions Architect Manager jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.