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, youll serve as a leader in defining innovative solutions for clients. Youll be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation. Youll 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 youll 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 well help you grow:
Youll have access to all the technical and management training courses you need to become the expert you want to be
Youll 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

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in Agile ways of working
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

About Business UnitIBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world's economy. IBM Services partners with the world's leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.
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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