Job description
A career in IBM Consulting embraces long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including IBM Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
Your Role and Responsibilities
As an IBM Architect, you will bring hybrid-cloud technical expertise to deliver transformative solution for our client's complex business problems, encompassing development using the cloud (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud), container platforms, and migration/modernisation of existing applications. You will define the technical scope and vision for projects to deliver customized solutions across cloud and on-premises. You will be a technical leader, serving as liaison among business partners, technical teams and project stakeholders.
Your responsibilities will include :
- Providing architecture leadership for our customers' digital and cloud transformations from system requirements through delivery and production/deployment, providing architectural and hands-on technical leadership to ensure overall solution integrity.
- Bringing deep technical and cloud expertise to enable the delivery of innovation solutions that are tailored to the specific needs of our customers.
- Building strong relationships with our clients and acting as a trusted advisor.
- Lead project team members while supporting the project manager from a technical point of view as an architect
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Required Professional Expertise
- Experience designing & delivering technical architectures (e.g. application, infrastructure, integration, security or data)
- Public cloud technology experience (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes,...)
- Good understanding & delivery experience of cloud native architectures, or of migration of on-premises systems to cloud
- You are ligible for a Security Clearance (SC) in the UK
Good knowledge of system design & delivery working with solutions composed of technologies such as :
- Java or JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Springboot)
- Enterprise integration technologies (e.g. Kafka, MQ, IBM Streams, ESBs, ETL,...)
- Enterprise level persistence technologies (e.g. Oracle, Postgres, DB2, NoSQL, Redis, Graph,...)
- Devops and Infrastructure as Code automation technologies (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Git, Jenkins,...)
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Preferred Professional Expertise
- Experience using Agile delivery methods (e.g. Scrum) and good understanding of scaled agile delivery methods (e.g. SAFe, LeSS)
Good knowledge of system design & delivery working with solutions composed of technologies such as :
- Estimation experience (top down, bottom up, planning poker,...)
- Experienced in arcdhitectural languages or framworks (UML, Zachman, TOGAF,...)
About Business Unit
Your Life @ IBM
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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About IBM
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
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