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Introduction
n this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery
Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public
and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally
based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by 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
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 a Technical Lead you will need to provide a strategic capability delivery partnership with across key enterprise level accounts. We aim to be our client’s most trusted IT infrastructure partner, and the exemplar in our use of technology and our cutting-edge software delivery.

This will be a fast-paced, hybrid working model project with 2 days required on site in either: Leicester, Manchester, Hursley, or London areas and the rest remote. The project will be focusing on developing a suite of assets and capabilities, using both IBM and Open-Source technology, that help our client improve the working practices of Developers across the organisation.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Working with the Product Owner to understand their requirements and support prioritisation of the backlog.
• Working within an agile DevSecOps development team, who are designing, implementing and sustaining new and innovative software solutions.
• Designing of the technical applications and recommending best practice solutions based on client business needs.
• Mapping business requirements to system / technical & integration requirements.
• Delivering specific technical objectives within an implementation.
• Provide leadership to Developers & Business Analyst.
• Lead functional specification design sessions and technical architecture sessions.
• Structure and lead prototype demos and collect feedback from Product Owner.
• Identify, resolve and/or escalate infrastructure issues.
• Manage change control processes.
• Provide coaching and development guidance to delivery team members.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Infrastructure as Code concept using tools such as Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef
• Experience in helping clients improve their process automation through improved use of available software tooling and recommending best practice CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with AWS cloud platform
• Continuous Integration e.g. Jenkins, UrbanCode, SonarQube, Nexus
• Containerisation e.g. Docker, Kubernetes
• Source code management tools such as GitHub, BitBucket, RTC
• System administration of Linux or Windows
• Monitoring tools e.g. Nagios, Zabbix
• Automation Testing tools e.g. Selenium, JUnit
• Coding & shell scripts using languages such as Bash, Ruby, YAML
• Understanding of the Software Development Life cycle (preferably Agile)
• Experience of React/ Node JS/ Vue.js/ Javascript/ Python
• Experience of Java (SE and EE standards),
• Assisting with the technical design and development of the OpenShift based product as part of a Scrum and operational team
• Knowledge of running Kafka in Kubernetes, KSQLDB
• Kafka CI / CD

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Self-starter analytical thinker thorough and detailed approach.
• Effective team leader and able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication skills and able to demonstrate strong problem solving.
• Good listening skills required to probe for answers.
• Demonstrate your understanding of the technical aspects of the project and draw upon your transferable and practical development experiences.
• Able to take creative approaches to problem solving innovation and issue resolution.
• Experience of working in a complex agile delivery environment designing technical applications based on client requirements.
• High level of proficiency working within a complex agile Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) development environment.
• Able to communicate with the client and the development team.
• Facilitate / lead workshops, e.g. functional specification design sessions.

The Client Innovation Centre (CIC) is an innovative and exciting part of IBM. A fast-paced and dynamic business built to deliver high-value technical services to world renowned clients. All of our employees work in a consultancy environment on a variety of exciting projects across a range of sectors. Every project has its own unique working environment - this enables our employees to build their experience, skill-set and network.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

This job requires you to provide your COVID-19 vaccination status with supporting documentation, where legally permissible.

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

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.

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.