Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you'll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business.
Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, whilst ongoing development will advance your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.
As a Solution Architect you'll be a pivotal team member who connects the client's technical functional and implementation requirements with a solution design and proposal. You'll work closely with clients and sellers to build solutions based on the meeting the client's business outcomes and known best practices for the technology and industry. In this fast-paced role, you'll design, and construct build work breakdown structure leading to the rough order of magnitude leading to the price and statement of work. A successful Solution Architect will demonstrate a natural bias towards self-motivation and navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions that ensure world class delivery.
If you are passionate about success with both your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you.
· To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' of this role may include, but not be limited to…
o Working closely with IBM Z clients to understand their main challenges and develop solutions to help them transform mission-critical IBM Z applications for hybrid cloud environments with stability, security, and agility.
o Create IBM zTPS solutions that use robust toolsets to develop and maintain applications; visualize applications, data, and jobs; develop and test for cloud native app development and modernization in a flexible consumption model.
o Working together with IBM Z and Expert Labs sales team to respond to client opportunities with accurate and deliverable proposals.
o Working collaboratively with IBM Z Ecosystem to support customers transformation initiatives.
o Contributing to the development of assets, methodologies and service offerings that will help in making the migration services scalable and repeatable.
o Working closely with our WW Technology Expert Labs delivery teams to ensure seamless transition from solutioning phase all the way through to implementation.
•End-to-End Technical Guidance: Providing expert end-to-end technical guidance to lead discovery discussions with prospective clients, assess architecture needs for projects, work with technical leads and sellers to create proposals.
•Finding the Best Architectural Outcomes: Leading client workshops; influencing client stakeholders at all levels to find the best architectural outcomes that align to business and technology strategies and initiatives into actionable roadmaps with clear direction on execution to ensure business value and ROI.
•Maintaining Solution Review Boards: Developing and contributing to the solution review boards for proposals including oversight for technology assurance, quality and risk evaluation
•Building Successful Relationships: Establishing and maintaining personal relationship at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.
Scaling the global Solution Architect team by creating or guiding the creation of reusable assets and accelerators.
Being a trusted advisor at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – navigating challenging debates to reach healthy resolutions.
•Documenting and Sizing Services: A provable track record of documenting and sizing services focused solutions including functional and implementation requirements that connect phases such as design, development, integration, migration, production support and development operations.
•Building Credibility and Client-Centric Skills: Skills and knowledge for building credibility and services orientation with client stakeholders aligned to infrastructure solutions.
•Infrastructure Solution Expertise: Familiar with the design, deployment and optimization of infrastructure solutions for IBM zSystems, LinuxONE and associated operating system and virtualization software including z/OS or Linux.
- Infrastructure Technology Expertise: Experience working with a broad spectrum of infrastructure technology solutions.
- Technical Expertise in Mainframe System Software: Technical expertise in z/OS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE operating systems and associated mainframe system software.
- Technical Expertise in Various Domains: Deep technical expertise in at least one systems software and technical domain such as cyber resiliency, security, encryption, enterprise containers, automation, application modernization, networking, and performance.
- Technology Expertise: Deep expertise in at least one of the following technology areas: IBM System z, z/OS, Machine Learning \AI on z, Data and Analytics on z, Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) resiliency solutions and automation
- Client facing Experience: Experience working with clients in defining technology solutions
Ability to manage multiple engagements in a fast-paced, innovative environment. - Experience with any of the IBM Software portfolio considered a plus – IBM Data & AI products
- Experience in IBM Z Modernization strategies and tools.
- Knowledge of Transaction processing systems and enterprise infrastructure design.