Application Architect-Microservices

Your role and responsibilities

As an Application Architect - AWS Cloud - in IBM Consulting, you'll serve as a leader in defining innovative solutions for clients. You'll be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation. You'll 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 you'll do:

• Create a scalable modular architecture in AWS
• Own Technical Design for Cloud Migration and Modernization engagements on AWS
• 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 application
• Application Solution design and implementation using AWS PaaS and SaaS offerings.
• Design and Build using AWS native services
• Develop reference architectures, patterns, and guidelines to ensure consistency and efficiency across cloud-based applications.
• Assess client environments provide advisory and implementation of recommendations based on best practices
• Serve as a subject matter expert in cloud technologies, staying up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Provide thought leadership and mentorship to technical teams, promoting best practices in cloud 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 architecture of 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 we'll help you grow:
You'll have access to all the technical and management training courses you need to become the expert you want to be
You'll 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 education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

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
• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture and design, with a focus on enterprise-level solutions.
• Proven hands on expertise in AWS cloud platform.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, microservices, APIs, containers, Kubernetes and serverless computing.
• Experience in DevSecOps practices and tools.
• 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, manufacturing, distribution and consumer goods.
• 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.
• AWS Architect certification
• India Market experience is mandatory

Preferred technical and professional experience

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

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's 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' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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.

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ABOUT IBM

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.

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