Introduction
In 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.
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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 an Architect in IBM Consulting, you'll serve as a leader in defining 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 transform detailed solutions (architectures) for the client.
Your primary responsibilities include:
- Engage with client teams in understanding business context and defining effective solutions.
- As a consultant with banking experience advice business on direction to take. Direct teams effort to define technical, operational and user requirements. Present solution and get stakeholder buy-in.
- Work with infra-architects to define the infrastructure setup needed.
- Guide and mentor teams to deliver the solution.
- Define reference architecture and standards for teams to adhere. Conduct reviews to ensure compliance.
- Foresee potential problems and proactively suggest improvements.
- Build framework components and complex parts of the solution.
- Hand off solution to operational support teams, and assist support teams in troubleshooting production problems.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 3 plus years of experience as a solution architect
- 1 to 2 years Backbase Implementation
- Significant experience in Banking Domain
- Experience with operational management of solutions delivered to production.
- Knowledge of infrastructure setup involved in realization of a solution.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Good Knowledge of fullstack technologies (front-end up to back-end) and mobile development
- Experience with Agile delivery and DevOps methods.
- Business case modelling skills would be preferable.
- Ability to work collaboratively and productively across internal and client teams. Cloud Certification preferable.