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Introduction

As a Software Architect, you will be responsible for designing and evolving the core systems that enable efficient, reliable, and secure software delivery across our portfolio of products. You will help define the architecture for internal build systems and delivery pipelines, ensuring that development teams have the tools and infrastructure needed to deliver high-quality software at scale. Your work will focus on optimizing performance, accelerating delivery cycles, and enabling seamless collaboration across teams. 

 

In this role, you will design resilient and cost-effective systems that balance innovation with operational excellence. You will collaborate with engineering, operations, and product stakeholders to create architectures that reduce complexity, minimize downtime, and improve scalability. A strong focus on automation, observability, and best practices will be critical to ensure our systems remain robust and efficient while adapting to evolving business needs. 

 

The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in resilient software architectures, CI/CD practices, and cloud infrastructure, paired with strong communication skills to influence and align teams. You will act as a thought leader, guiding technical decisions, setting standards, and mentoring engineers to ensure consistent, sustainable delivery. Ultimately, your impact will be measured by the organization’s ability to deliver products faster, more reliably, and more efficiently, driving both satisfaction and business growth. 

Your role and responsibilities
  • Architect and lead the evolution of our delivery, with an emphasis on scalability, high availability, and developer productivity
  • Provide technical leadership across the org on best practices in efficient, effective and reliable delivery workflows, source control strategy, repository management and release automation 
  • Drive the adoption and integration of Source Code Management systems, Artifact Repositories, Build Systems and Delivery Pipelines (CI/CD)
  • Champion observability and monitoring practices that enable proactive detection, rapid response, and continuous improvement
  • Design and implement fault-tolerant systems that minimize operational overhead and support rapid recovery from failures
  • Collaborate with security and compliance teams to embed DevSecOps principles into the entire software lifecycle
  • Influence platform and tooling decisions that impact hundreds of engineers, focusing on reducing toil and delivery efficiency 
  • Mentor engineers across teams, providing thought leadership in automation and platform reliability
  • Demonstrate flexibility in mindset to navigate and resolve points of intersection with other system components. Adaptability is key to finding mutually beneficial solutions.
  • Utilize strong communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts, fostering collaboration and understanding across interdisciplinary teams

 

 

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US

 

Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 10+ years of experience in either DevOps, SRE, Delivery Pipelines, Infrastructure or Platform Architecting, Design and Engineering
  • Proven experience in building and managing highly available, fault-tolerant systems at scale 
  • Expert hands-on expertise in: 
    • Source Code Management systems: GitLab, GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket 
    • Artifact Repositories: Nexus, Artifactory, Quay, Red Hat Indy
    • Messaging systems: Kafka, AMQ, RabbitMQ 
    • Observability systems: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelem, Datadog 
    • Container Platforms: Openshift, Kubernetes 
    • Virtual Machines 
    • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Helm, Ansible 
  • Demonstrated communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Ability to operate at both a strategic and tactical level, influencing architectural direction and rolling up sleeves when needed
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Proficiency in Modern Programming Languages possessing a solid understanding of programming languages, with a specific emphasis on proficiency in languages such as Java and Python. 
  • Expertise in Linux Environment demonstrating strong knowledge and experience in working within Linux environments, illustrating a keen understanding of its intricacies and optimal configurations. 
  • Containerization and Orchestration Mastery proficiency in containerization and orchestration using Openshift or Kubernetes, highlighting the ability to design and manage scalable and efficient application deployments. 
  • Leadership in cross-team initiatives, open-source projects, or internal platform transformations

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 500 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

 

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

 

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

 

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.  

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.