Solution Architect - Cloud

Introduction
Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you’ll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products you’ll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business.

Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact whilst ongoing development will advance your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Solution Architect you’ll be a pivotal team member who connects the client’s technical functional and implementation requirements with a solution design and proposal. You’ll work closely with clients and sellers to build solutions based on the meeting the client’s business outcomes and known best practices for the technology and industry. In this fast-paced role you’ll design and construct build work breakdown structure leading to the rough order of magnitude leading to the price and statement of work. A successful Solution Architect will demonstrate a natural bias towards self-motivation and navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions that ensure world class delivery.

If you are passionate about success with both your career and solving clients’ business challenges this role is for you. To help achieve this win-win outcome a ‘day-in-the-life’ of this opportunity may include but not be limited to…

• End-to-End Technical Guidance: Providing expert end-to-end technical guidance to lead discovery discussions with prospective clients assess architecture needs for projects work with technical leads and sellers to create proposals.
• Finding the Best Architectural Outcomes: Leading client workshops; influencing client stakeholders at all levels to find the best architectural outcomes that align to business and technology strategies and initiatives into actionable roadmaps with clear direction on execution to ensure business value and ROI.
• Maintaining Solution Review Boards: Developing and contributing to the solution review boards for proposals including oversight for technology assurance quality and risk evaluation
• Building Successful Relationships: Establishing and maintaining personal relationship at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Documenting and Sizing Services: A provable track record of documenting and sizing services focused solutions including functional and implementation requirements that connect phases such as design development integration migration production support and development operations.
• Building Credibility and Client-Centric Skills: Skills and knowledge for building creditability and service orientation with client stakeholders aligned to hybrid cloud solutions including regulated cloud and platform adoption cloud native applications and hosted applications or equivalent enterprise solutions.

• Cloud and Automation Experience: Experience of Cloud Infrastructure and automation experience (IBM Cloud AWS Azure GCP etc.).

• Technical Consulting Skills: Working with a variety of technology systems architecting Cloud Application Solutions for clients.

• Agile Practices: Agile Experience in leveraging Agile practices in building cloud applications.

• Experience in implementing software defined networking cloud security DevSecOps principles and/or database migrations.

• Legacy Migrating or Transforming Experience: Experience in migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Cloud Technology Expertise: Experience working with a broad spectrum of Cloud technology solutions.
• Cloud Consulting Experience: Experience working in consulting of solutions including SaaS / IaaS / PaaS and/or Cloud.

• Cloud Software Expertise: Deep expertise in cloud software technologies including IBM Cloud Platform VMWare NSX-T PowerVS Red Hat OpenShift high performance computing DevSecOps site reliability engineering IBM Retain Insights and AEM on IBM Cloud.