Solution Architect

Introduction
At IBM work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Design develop and deploy hybrid multi cloud and cloud native architectures and solutions for payments transformation initiatives that support the business requirements of the client. Solution responsibility can include but not limited to infrastructure strategy and design systems strategy and design communications strategy and design and data center strategy and design.
• Lead and create the Solution Architecture High-Level and Low-Level design deliverables with client architects.
• Bring expertise in hybrid cloud platform security governance and compliance.
• Design the HA / DR strategies for the hybrid cloud solution.
• Best practices in this role use reference architectures and service product assets to develop conceptual and detailed designs.
• Architects are responsible for performance availability and scalability of the solution and the impact on the client’s infrastructure.
• Support sales opportunities.
• Lead perform and mentor on consulting engagement pursuits. This includes participating in client opportunity identification and qualification calls understanding client needs and objectives articulating and formulating solutions design for proposals and statements of work that align to the client needs while managing delivery risk and working with the sales team through deal progression and signing.
• Engagement oversight. This includes following the Delivery Roadmap to successful project execution. This includes staffing consulting project teams assisting project leadership (i.e. project manager or engagement leader) in defining or modifying project approach and structure as necessary deliverables review and participation in key project events as appropriate.
• Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 10+ years of experience in design and delivery of complex and large-scale IT projects.
• Expertise in the Payments Industry and the design delivery of payments systems (ACH Wires Real Time Interac Cheques Card Payments etc.). Candidates with strong experience in Banking and Financial services will also be considered.
• 3+ years of experience as a solution architect providing hands on technical leadership forthe end to end design delivery and management of hybrid cloud solutions (AWS Azure IBM GCP)
• Cloud solution architect certification in one of major cloud providers (IBM Cloud AWS Azure GCP)
• Experience in design and delivery of cloud native solutions with Microservices containers & orchestration (Docker Kubernetes etc.)
• Proven experience in design and delivery of cloud native solutions with with Micro services containers and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes OpenShift)
• Experience in REST API Interface design API Gateways Swagger/OpenAPI standard OAuth
• Experience leading projects delivered through a globally integrated capability of onsite nearshore and offshore teams.
• Experience with Agile methods & DevOps.
• Experience in design and delivery of scalable fault tolerant and resilient systems Familiar with data center concepts and best practices high – availability systems capacity planning system performance evaluation and diagnostic techniques and methodologies.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Understanding of Red Hat ecosystem (OpenShift Ansible RH Fuse RH SSO etc.)
• Expertise in solution infrastructure as code and DevOps automations
• Expertise in Datacenter moves to Cloud
• Familiar with IT Operations and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice