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; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
As an Architect in IBM Consulting, you'll serve as a leader in defining solutions for clients. You'll be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation.
- Lead end-to-end mainframe modernization assessments and develop strategic roadmaps tailored to client needs. Architect and execute large-scale modernization and migration solutions using industry best practices.
- Evaluate and apply modernization patterns such as re-platforming, code conversion, re-architecting, and replacement.
- Mainframe Data Integration solutions like Data Virtualization, Data Replication, Extract Transform Load, Change Data Capture and Data Change Event Streaming
- Designing target architectures and providing technical leadership.
- Experience with static code analysis tools (e.g., IBM ADDI, Microfocus EA), mainframe integration (MQ, zOS Connect, APIs), data integration/migration techniques, DevOps for Mainframe (IDz, Git), and application optimization. Familiarity with modern languages (Java/Python) on the mainframe is also important.
- Expertise on one or more additional mainframe technologies e.g. IMS DB/DC, PL1, Assembler, IDMS/ADSO, Natural/Adabas, Cool:Gen
- The ideal candidate needs proven experience - 5+ years as an architect, 3+ years leading modernization - architecting and executing large-scale modernizations. Strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills are crucial.
- The candidate should have exposure to general Artificial Intelligence Concepts.