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
An Application Architect is responsible for managing the overall application system ensuring seamless interactions between components. This role establishes technology standards translates business objectives into technology standards and selects/defines/enforces consistent products vendors methodologies and standards. The Architect should be proficient in various technologies including C/C++ Python.
They should be familiar with architectural patterns. In addition to technology skills the Application Architect should be able to consult clients on strategies and roadmaps. They are responsible for ensuring application support performance availability and scalability as well as maintaining the functional interface to the application infrastructure. The Application Architect should be adept at working in multiple environments and conversant with architectural patterns.
This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. To be eligible for employment in this role you must be a Canadian citizen or Canadian Permanent Resident. If you hold dual or third nationality in addition to being either a Canadian citizen or Canadian Permanent Resident the nationality must be from one of the below approved countries to be eligible for employment in this role: Australia Belgium Bulgaria Canada Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Montenegro Netherlands New Zealand North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Türkiye United Kingdom United States.
Candidates must have or eligible to obtain:
- Secret Clearance issued by the Government of Canada. Note that candidates without this clearance must recognize that it will take up to six months to obtain it if they have Canadian citizenship.
- NATO and Controlled Goods Clearances will be required once Secret Clearance is proven/obtained.
Requirements:
- Located in Ottawa ON (all work will be done on site at the IBM office)
- Experience in the Defence Industry
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Required Professional and Technical Capabilities:
- 8 -10 years of Low-Level Programming and embedded Systems:
- Object-Oriented programming languages: C/C++ Python
- bitwise operations and memory management
- device driver development
- message-passing protocols
- system engineering
- Networking and communications protocols like serial communication (e.g. UART RS-232 RS-485) industrial and avionics protocols (e.g. Modbus MIL-STD-1553B) and custom binary messaging formats.
- Excellent understanding of multi-threaded applications (e.g.: critical-sections memory fencing locks/mutex) and the ability to investigate and resolve issues related to these applications.
- Knowledge of system architecture and design for custom applications handling heterogeneous hardware software modularity and maintainability data serialization and security in embedded systems.
- Integration and interoperability bridging old and new technologies middleware development (API gateways event brokers service mesh event mesh).
Other duties:
- Lead cross functional teams in developing custom solutions and mentoring junior developers in best practices and design patterns.
- Be able to work with the Solution Architect to plan and execute the work required (features new capabilities) by leading a team of developers and testers.
- Be able to conduct regular stand-ups for coordination and report status to Solution Architect regularly identifying the risks and issues early; and presenting mitigation strategy promptly.
- Work closely with client teams and other vendor teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Strong sense of initiative and ability to prioritize tasks
- Creative and forward thinking
- Works well in a fast-paced environment working within client committed timelines