IBM

Solution Architect

IBM$120K — $140K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree required.
  • 10+ years in large-scale IT project design and delivery.
  • Expertise in the Payments Industry and payment systems (ACH, Wires, etc.).
  • 3+ years as a solution architect with hands-on experience in hybrid cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, IBM, GCP).
  • Cloud solution architect certification in major providers required.
  • Experience in cloud native solutions with Microservices and containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Knowledge of REST API design and related standards.

Responsibilities

  • Design and deploy hybrid, multi-cloud solutions for payment transformation.
  • Lead the creation of architectural design deliverables with clients.
  • Ensure security governance and compliance for hybrid cloud platforms.
  • Develop high availability and disaster recovery strategies for solutions.
  • Utilize reference architectures to produce detailed design documents.
  • Ensure performance, availability, and scalability of solutions impacting client infrastructure.
  • Support sales by formulating tailored solutions and managing delivery risks.

Benefits

  • Engagement oversight with successful project execution.
  • Mentoring opportunities for consulting engagements.
  • Collaborative environment focused on automation and deployment processes.
Full Job Description
Your role and responsibilities

Your Role and Responsibilities
  • Design, development and deployment of hybrid, multi cloud and cloud native architectures and solutions for payments transformation initiatives that support the business requirements of the client. Solution responsibility can include but not limited to, infrastructure strategy and design, systems strategy and design, communications strategy and design, and data center strategy and design.
  • Lead, create Solution Architecture, High-Level and Low-Level design deliverables with client architects.
  • Bring expertise in hybrid cloud platform security governance and compliance.
  • Proven understanding of hybrid cloud platform (including OpenShift, IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure) and key cloud services consumption models and be able to construct cost effective solutions for our clients.
  • Design the HA / DR strategies for the hybrid cloud solution.
  • Best practices in this role use reference architectures and service product assets to develop conceptual and detailed designs.
  • Architects are responsible for performance, availability and scalability of the solution and the impact on the client's infrastructure.
  • Support sales opportunities.
  • Lead, perform and mentor on consulting engagement pursuits. This includes participating in client opportunity identification and qualification calls, understanding client needs and objectives, articulating and formulating solutions design for proposals and statements of work that align to the client needs while managing delivery risk and working with the sales team through deal progression and signing.
  • Engagement oversight. This includes following the Delivery Roadmap to successful project execution. This includes staffing consulting project teams, assisting project leadership (i.e., project manager or engagement leader) in defining or modifying project approach and structure as necessary, deliverables review and participation in key project events as appropriate.
  • Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes


Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • 10+ years of experience in design and delivery of complex and large-scale IT projects.
  • Expertise in the Payments Industry and the design, delivery of payments systems (ACH, Wires, Real Time, Interac, Cheques, etc.). Candidates with strong experience in Banking and Financial services will also be considered.
  • 3+ years of experience as a solution architect providing hands on technical leadership for the end to end design, delivery and management of hybrid cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, IBM, GCP)
  • Cloud solution architect certification in one of major cloud providers (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Experience in design and delivery of cloud native solutions with Microservices, containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
  • Proven experience in design and delivery of cloud native solutions with with Micro services, containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
  • Experience in REST API Interface design, API Gateways, Swagger/OpenAPI standard, OAuth.
  • Experience leading projects delivered through a globally integrated capability of onsite, nearshore, and offshore teams.
  • Experience with Agile methods & DevOps.
  • Experience in design and delivery of scalable, fault tolerant and resilient systems Familiar with data center concepts and best practices, high - availability systems, capacity planning, system performance evaluation, and diagnostic techniques and methodologies.


Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Understanding of Red Hat ecosystem (OpenShift, Ansible, RH Fuse, RH SSO, etc.)
  • Familiar with solution infrastructure as code and DevOps automations.
  • Expertise in Datacenter migration to Cloud.
  • Familiar with IT Operations and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice.
  • Expertise in REST APIs, Java Spring boot, Microservices architecture


OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship. For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

About IBM

Sequent Computer Systems designs and manufactures multiprocessing computer systems based on Cache Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access architecture, which are used primarily as application and database servers for commercial applications. Through a partnership with Oracle Corporation, Sequent became a dominant high-end UNIX platform in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Later it introduced a next-generation high-end platform for UNIX and Windows NT based on non-uniform memory access architecture, NUMA-Q. Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is based in Beaverton, Oregon. In July 1999 Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. was acquired by International Business Machines Corp.

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