Solution Architect

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success.

You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success.

You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Design, development and deployment of 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, create Solution Architecture, High-Level and Low-Level design deliverables with client architects.
• Bring expertise in hybrid cloud platform security governance and compliance.
• Proven understanding of hybrid cloud platform (including Open Shift, IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure) and key cloud services consumption models and be able to construct cost effective solutions for our clients.
• 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

• 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, 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 for the 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,…