Solution Architect

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

Provides experience with:

• System design with open architecture, incorporating modularity, to consolidate one or more sub-systems into one system in a secure cloud environment with consolidated and streamlined functionality

• Building high-quality technological solution and architecture models

• Providing technical assistance to support the development teams

• Acquiring a working knowledge of new technologies and third-party applications

• Writing design, sizing, and operation documentation

• Experience with DevSecOps

• Understanding of GenAI related code quality tools

The candidate should have the following experience/expertise:

• Detail-oriented
• Familiar with cloud architectures
• Analyze existing project scope and associated processes and recommend improvements where appropriate
• Optimize internal and external communications and sharing of information

Take initiative, self-starter, problem solver, can work with minimal supervision, produces quality deliverables

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Must possess at time of hire and have the ability to maintain a Top-Secret Clearance
• Experience as a Solution Architecture (10 years)
• Experience with Microservices and application containerization (5 years)
• Experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Excellent communications skills.
• AWS certified
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook and Access)
• Good communication skills verbally and in writing and has ability to interface with the customer

• Experience with hybrid multi-cloud target architecture and operating model
• Experience with application Refactoring

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Hybrid Cloud Expertise: Experience with cloud-based technologies and hybrid cloud architectures, with the ability to design and implement scalable and secure solutions.

• Enterprise Software Knowledge: Familiarity with enterprise software solutions, including those related to application and system integration, with the ability to integrate these solutions into hybrid architectures.

• Technical Vision Development: Experience developing and communicating technical visions and strategies to drive business transformation, with the ability to articulate the value proposition of hybrid solutions to clients.