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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

Your role and responsibilities

 

We are seeking an experienced Application Architect with strong expertise in Microsoft .NET development, web application design, EDI integrations, and AWS cloud architecture. This role will architect and deliver enterprise-grade solutions in the healthcare domain, including modernization and integration for our U.S. Trade Insights platform. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker who can bridge business needs with scalable technical design, while providing hands-on leadership across development and integration teams.

 

Key Responsibilities

Application & Platform Architecture

  • Architect end-to-end solutions using Microsoft .NET, C#, and modern web frameworks.
  • Design cloud-native applications and microservices leveraging AWS architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, etc.).
  • Define application patterns, data models, and reusable components for scalable, secure, and high-performance platforms.
  • Lead modernization and enhancement of the U.S. Trade Insights platform, ensuring reliability and future scalability.
  • Architect and implement EDI integrations across healthcare systems, payers, providers, and trading partners.
  • Design secure and compliant data exchange frameworks (X12, HL7, FHIR, JSON, XML).
  • Guide the development of integration workflows, API gateways, and messaging pipelines.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

  • Lead development teams, providing code reviews, design guidance, and architectural oversight.
  • Define SDLC best practices, coding standards, DevOps guidelines, and platform governance.
  • Collaborate with product managers, data engineers, QA, and cloud teams to ensure effective end-to-end delivery.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues and drive root-cause analysis across applications and platforms.

Cloud, DevOps & Operational Excellence

  • Build cloud deployment strategies leveraging AWS CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, and containerization.
  • Ensure systems meet enterprise standards for security, observability, availability, and performance.
  • Partner with teams to implement monitoring, logging, and automated testing frameworks.

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

 

  • 9–12+ years of experience in application architecture, software engineering, or enterprise solutions design.
  • Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft .NET, C#, .NET Core, and modern web development frameworks.
  • Proven experience designing EDI integrations (X12, 837/835, HL7, FHIR, or similar).
  • Deep knowledge of AWS cloud architecture, cloud-native design, and serverless or container-based deployments.
  • Strong healthcare domain experience, including payers, providers, or health data exchange platforms.
  • Experience architecting analytical or data-driven solutions such as Trade Insights platforms.
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred technical and professional experience

 

  • AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate/Professional).
  • Exposure to data engineering, analytics, or visualization tools (Snowflake, Redshift, Power BI).

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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 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.