Job Description

Introduction
In this role, you\'ll work in our IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. These centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology

As an IBM Application 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
Whether you are accessing a website or a mobile app, people have high expectations of the apps that they regularly use. As a result, companies must continuously deliver new features and fixes. In the past, this process was painful because an application was usually developed, built, and made available as a single, often monolithic, application.
Microservices is an application architectural style in which an application is composed of many discrete, network-connected components called microservices:

• Large monolithic applications are broken into small services.
• A single network-accessible service is the smallest deployable unit for a microservices application.
• Each service runs in its own process. This rule, sometimes stated as "one service per container,"might be a container or any other lightweight deployment mechanism, such as a Cloud Foundry runtime.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Technical hands-on experience with Microservices Architecture Style and the related patterns, where software is developed as small and independently deployable services that work together modeled around a business domain.
• Working knowledge of architecting and building Microservices using a leading technology stack like Spring / Spring Cloud. Very proficient in Java, RESTful APIs, API Gateway, Microservices communications, RDBMS/NoSQL DB and DevOps methodologies and tools.
• Architectural experience throughout the entire software development lifecycle by continuously making critical adjustments to the architecture to ensure desired results.
• Architect and design highly scalable, available, secure, and elastic solutions that implement industry best practices and cutting-edge technologies.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Coach developers, testers to deliver the high-quality software. Closely work with and/or Lead a highly skilled engineering team to guide, help implement and deliver solutions on time.
• Partner closely with the product owners, business analyst to alige.
• Architectural experience throughout the entire software development lifecycle by continuously making critical adjustments to the architecture to ensure desired results.

About Business Unit IBM Consulting is IBM\xe2\x80\x99s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients\xe2\x80\x99 businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.


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