Introduction
As an IBM Enterprise Architect, you directly help clients transform their business and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of IBM platforms. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Who you are: As an Application Architect in IBM Consulting, you’ll serve as a leader in defining innovative solutions for clients. You’ll be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation. You’ll collaborate with client stakeholders and internal partners to understand the business problem and requirements, constraints of the system and concerns of the various stakeholders to systematically build and transform detailed solutions (architectures) for the client. This will be a Sell and Deliver role where you will own the cloud engagement end to end from the Pre Sales stage to Delivery and position yourself as the owner of the Hybrid Cloud architecture within your team serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.
What you’ll do:
Create a scalable modular architecture
Own Technical Design for Custom Development, Modernization and Cloud Migration engagements
Create cloud migration strategies and define delivery architecture and migration plans
Analyze Complex application landscapes, anticipate potential problems and future trends, assess opportunities and potential solutions with associated impacts, and risks.
Architect, implement and deploy DevOps based end to end applications
Solution design and implementation using native cloud services, Low Code Platforms
Develop reference architectures, patterns, and guidelines to ensure consistency and efficiency across on premise and cloud-based applications.
Assess client environments provide advisory and implementation of recommendations based on best practices
Serve as a subject matter expert in cloud and integration technologies, staying up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies.
Provide thought leadership and mentorship to technical teams, promoting best practices in architecture and design.
Demonstrate leadership by leading multi-functional teams for a bid, owning architectural point of view and influence people and organization including executives, when issues are complex/difficult and require considerable diplomacy.
You will be accountable for Projects or Programs Involving multi- Functional, Country-Wide Teams.
Responsible For Overall Program Success. Success measures are Customer Satisfaction, Personal and Team Utilization and Business Unit Targets of Signings, Revenue and Gross Profit
For Pre-sales activity you will be accountable for solutioning and proposal building: Lead the team and deliver the winning proposal to customer following IBM Internal solutioning and approval processes.
How we’ll help you grow:
You’ll have access to all the technical and management training courses you need to become the expert you want to be
You’ll learn directly from expert developers in the field; our team leads love to mentor
You have the opportunity to work in many different areas to figure out what really excites you
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
Minimum 15 years of experience in Technology Architecture domain
8+ years of experience in architecture and design, with a focus on enterprise-level solutions.
Proven hands on expertise in custom development, microservices and cloud services
Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, microservices, APIs, containers, Kubernetes and serverless computing.
Experience in using atleast 2 Low Code platforms for development projects
Experience in DevSecOps practices and tools.
Experience in Gen AI based Code generators
Demonstrated experience in creating and maintaining cloud strategies and architectural standards.
Experience of architecting medium & large complex systems in the India market- with a value greater than USD 2 Million.
Must have expertise in working with at least 1 industry – financial services or manufacturing
Should have had earlier career Experience in design, development and architecture of Java/JEE/.NET/Integration based systems
Should have experience in Infrastructure architecture, Sizing, estimation, provisioning, and automation of compute/storage/network
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Atleast 1 Architect Level certification in cloud (Azure / AWS)
India Market experience is mandatory
