[IBM Japan] Cloud Advisory Consultant/Architect

Introduction
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.
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]

• Assistance in formulating measures to upgrade IT functions
• Assistance in developing strategies to leverage advanced cloud-based technologies
• Enterprise architecture development support
• Assistance in developing a roadmap for transformation including modernization migration and development of cloud-native solutions
• System architecture design support
• Support for designing operational models for IT organizations and processes (DevOps SRE)
• CoE/CoC management support to maintain the operational model

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
・ Experience in building application systems projects utilizing cloud environments and cloud services (IBM Cloud AWS Azure Google) or leading on-premise web application development projects
・Experience in “Systemization Concept Development Project” or “IT Strategy Development Project” or “Enterprise Architecture Development Project” or “Transition Phase of Outsourcing Project

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience as an application architect in a cloud environment
• Experience in designing and implementing systems for migration from on-premise to Amazon AWS Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) cloud environments.
• Experience in application development for mission-critical systems and DB design for mission-critical systems
• TOEIC score of 730 or equivalent and the ability to read English e-mails and documents. If you have a high level of English proficiency you will have more chances to be involved in our activities.
• Business level Japanese language skills