Employment:
Full Time
Introduction
Solution Architects are the technical experts and advisors to clients, IBM sales teams and/or IBM Business Partners. You understand the client’s business requirements, technical requirements and/or competitive landscape. You apply your business insights, build and maintain client relationships, incorporate hardware, software and services into client-valued solutions and ensure client readiness for the implementation of technical solutions. This is an opportunity to shape the future for both IBM and its clients. Start your journey now!
Your Role and Responsibilities
Solution Architects in IBM’s Client Engineering are part of a cross – functional team that delivers a unique client co – creation experience to accelerate client transformation. As part of an entrepreneurial team, you will co – create with clients through IBM Client Engineering as the new norm. You will dev elop the framework and integrated solutions that address the client’s business needs while also driving the client’s consumption of IBM technologies and services. You will lead all aspects of the integrated solution, from identification of requirements to technical decisions impacting the business outcome. You will collaborate with members of the client team and IBM team to define and execute Proofs of Technology and Minimum Viable Solutions. You will combine contemporary Cloud, AI and Analytics skills with deep industry expertise and an understanding of the client’s business.
To be successful in this role you will need to:
– Play a leadership role within the Client Engineering team to facilitate co-creation and joint development between clients and IBM
– Continuously expand essential business, industry, technology, and competitive knowledge in Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Foundry, Container Security and Red Hat technologies (OpenShift, Ansible, RHEL, etc.)
– Expand partnerships at all levels of the client organi zation resulting in highest levels of client advocacy
– Champion an entrepreneurial mindset and deliver unique value by leveraging industry and technology expertise to drive innovative strategies to accelerate clients’ success
– Connect client pain points an d opportunities to full suite of IBM technology and services in a client context
– Hands-on experience and willingness to remain hands-on
– 5+ years of cross-functional knowledge of numerous engineering areas including Kubernetes and Cloud Platforms, Agile Integration, API Management, Application Modernization, Hybrid Multi-cloud architectures, containerization/Kubernetes, microservices design, DevOps, Edge, IOT, Messaging, Process & Network Automation.
– 5+ years of experience in working within cloud-based software development
– 5+ years of experience in a technical solution and architect role for cloud-based solutions
– Experience in architecting / deploying / operating solutions built on AWZ, Azure, IBM Cloud, or Google Cloud.
– 3+ years using agile practices
– 5+ years of client facing experience -strong, collaborative client relationships
– 8+ years of technical pre-sales experience
Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise:
– Cloud Certification in for at least one hyperscaler ( AWZ, Azure, IBM Cloud, or Google Cloud ) , Cloud Architect certifications . – Certification in one of the Container Platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Tanzu, Rancher) – Architectural knowledge of IBM Cloud Paks, RedHat OpenShift and the RedHat portfolio.
– 10+ years of technical pre-sales experience
For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region’s technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.
Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.
Reinvention is a keyword in the company’s history and, today, IBM is much more than a “hardware, software, services” company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company.
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