GitLab Inc. · NASDAQ:GTLB · All-Remote. Pre-sales architect on the global Solutions Architecture Center of Excellence, owning AI subject-matter expertise across strategic enterprise accounts. The role asks for an AI SME who can act as the technical CTO for multi-year DevSecOps transformations. This page is the case for a 27-year systems builder fitting that brief at senior IC calibration.
The role wants an "AI subject matter expert" who has actually designed and implemented AI-powered solutions, not someone briefing on AI from the outside. Across 2024–2025 I architected the 7-layer Saputo DOT planning system with Anthropic's Claude as my daily engineering partner — 231 Power BI visuals, 155 DAX measures, multi-layer SAP ECC integration. Two decades earlier at Pacific Brands I unified six divisional ERPs into a single centralised engine with mandatory CEO sign-off governance across three divisions. The shape of multi-team, multi-year, executive-sponsored technical strategy work GitLab needs an SA to lead is what I have done for two decades.
One disclosure up front. The Saputo DOT system was not adopted; the AI-assisted personal-equipment build was the integrity issue I voluntarily disclosed to corporate security on exit. The architecture is the artefact; the disclosure is on record. Pacific Brands (2011–13) was the centralised system that was adopted. Both are evidence; the disclosure is the differentiator that lets an integrity-first AI company hire with confidence.
The role explicitly wants an SA who has designed or implemented AI-powered solutions. Two-thirds of competing applicants will be SAs who have used ChatGPT and read papers. I architected a 7-layer enterprise planning platform with Claude as my daily build partner across 2024–25. The work is the credential.
GitLab is the canonical remote-first company; the SA team works asynchronously across regions. I have worked remotely since 2019, hold the Warrnambool location as the standing constraint, and the role lists Remote Australia as the primary eligibility band. AEST gives the team APAC coverage that San Francisco and Singapore can't run alone.
The Center of Excellence wants reusable assets, reference architectures, internal enablement content, thought leadership. Most pre-sales SAs build that on the job. I arrive with a 70+ skill ecosystem and robertmclark.dev — an AI-built site demonstrating exactly the output muscle the role wants scaled globally.
"Act as the technical CTO" for strategic accounts driving multi-year DevSecOps transformation. Pacific Brands was three management tiers above where I sit today, six ERPs unified across three divisions, CEO sign-off governance. The pattern transfers cleanly into a pre-sales SA seat where the customer is the same shape Pacific Brands was.
Built solo as the single planning systems builder at Workwear Group level — three management tiers above where I sit today. Harvested data from six divisional ERPs, auto-generated supplier orders, produced branded dashboards per division and S&OP decks for the three divisional CEOs with mandatory sign-off governance.
The relevant point for Arcadian: this is the agency-grade brief, executed at scale, twenty years before the agency model named it. Six clients (the divisions) handled by one builder, with executive-grade communication and governance discipline. The pattern an Arcadian client would pay for, demonstrated.
Solo design and build of the Demand Operations Tower over nine years, on personal equipment. Seven integrated layers: source ingestion, staging, lookups, transformation, KPI calculation, presentation and governance. This is exactly the pattern Arcadian's Data Pipeline Development service sells — enterprise-grade architecture, not slide-grade.
Layers 5–7 (the most recent) were built with Anthropic's Claude as a genuine engineering partner. The system was not adopted at Saputo; the AI-assisted personal-equipment build was the integrity issue I voluntarily disclosed to corporate security on exit. The architecture is the artefact; the disclosure is on record.