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Introduction

Are you an experienced leader passionate about leveraging AI to drive change within an organization? Do you excel in collaborating with cross-functional teams to strategically embed AI capabilities across
various business functions?

IBM’s AI Center of Excellence (CoE), stands at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest advancements in Generative AI to drive internal transformation.
• Join us in the pursuit of not just solving business challenges across IBM Infrastructure, but reshaping the landscape for our employees through creative AI solutions. Immersing ourselves in the technology we deliver to our clients, we're not just adapting to change; we're driving it.
• Join us in redefining how AI enhances productivity, improves workflows, and delivers value across IBM Infrastructure.

The AI Center of Excellence is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to join our team. In this role, you will lead the architectural design and technical strategy for advanced AI solutions built on IBM’s Watsonx platform and
pretrained models such as Granite. You will define scalable, secure, and high-performance architectures on IBM Cloud, collaborating closely with Technical Account Managers, Developers, UX/UI Designers, and other
stakeholders to deliver impactful, innovative AI solutions.

Your role and responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, and maintainable AI and cloud-based solutions
• Establish architectural frameworks, technical standards, and best practices for AI development
• Create and maintain technical roadmaps for AI implementation
• Provide architectural oversight and technical direction for complex AI projects
• Review and approve designs, identifying and mitigating architectural risks
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks for AI
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure compliance with architecture and technical excellence
• Produce detailed architecture documentation and technical specifications

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• 7+ years of software development, with at least 2 years in developing and deploying AI/ML solutions, particularly generative AI models
• Expertise in AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, OpenAI)
• Experience with LLMs and generative AI, including prompt engineering and RAG techniques
• Hands-on with model deployment and fine-tuning (e.g., Granite, Mistral, Llama 3)
• Strong cloud architecture and microservices design experience
• Proficient in backend development (Node.js, Python, Java), RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures
• Skilled in distributed systems, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and orchestration tools
• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Kafka, object storage, and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiar with SQL/NoSQL databases for AI workloads
• Strong background in cloud security, compliance, and data protection best practices
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail in all aspects of development and documentation

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Hands on experience with the Watsonx product portfolio
• Proficiency with IBM Cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, and AI-specific offerings
• Proven track record in large-scale AI solution implementation
• Skilled in performance optimization and scalability design
• Background in hybrid cloud architectures
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks
• Expertise in API design, infrastructure as code, and automation
• Strong technical documentation and diagramming skills
• Understanding of AI governance and responsible AI principles
• Proficient in agile software development practices
• Familiarity with emerging AI technologies and architectural patterns

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio  designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.


This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.