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Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into solutions. 

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Software Architect to lead the design, development, and delivery of large-scale enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will bring innovative ideas, deep technical expertise, and a hands-on approach to building world-class software solutions. In this role, you will provide technical direction, develop strategies for long-term product growth, and mentor team members, all while addressing complex challenges faced by our customers.

Your role and responsibilities
  • Design and execute exceptional, deeply-technical innovations to improve the product and team productivity.
  • Drive complex technical initiatives and deliverables with broad impact to successful completion through consistent demonstration of expertise, credibility, and trustworthiness.
  • Lead cross-team initiatives and deliverables to successful completion and achievement of organizational KPIs, such as Product Quality, Deployment Success, Customer Satisfaction, Code Metrics/Quality, and Team Collaboration.
  • Partner and co-create with clients or stakeholders to build and maintain strong, positive relationships.
  • Assist management in planning, scheduling, and assigning projects to software development personnel.
  • Develop, test, document, and maintain complex software programs, ensuring they meet project requirements and specifications.
  • Collaborate with data scientists to integrate data science algorithms efficiently into high-scale production applications.
  • Lead design reviews, code reviews, and other quality assurance mechanisms to ensure high product quality.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex software problems, recommending solutions as needed.
  • Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation.

What We Value:

  • Leadership qualities and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
  • Versatility and openness to tackle new and evolving customer challenges.
  • A strategic mindset to align technical solutions with long-term product growth objectives.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 12+ years of proven experience in designing and delivering large-scale enterprise applications using Java, J2EE, and related technologies. Hands-on experience with both RDBMS (Oracle, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB). Hands-on experience writing code with streaming tools like Kafka and using cloud functions (serverless compute).
  • Strong expertise in software architecture, development, and integration of data science algorithms in enterprise-grade software. Strong knowledge of Microservice architecture and deployment models for enterprise-grade cloud environments (public/private). Software development strategies for low latency, high throughput softwares
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD tools such as Tekton, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Travis CI etc
  • Proven debugging and troubleshooting skills, including memory, performance and network usage optimization.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with cross-functional teams. Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and mentor engineers. Ability to test and analyze data and provide recommendations, organize tasks and determine priorities, and provide guidance to junior team members.
  • Have an enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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.

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