Cloud Architect Azure

IBM

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Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

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.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Enterprise Architect specializing in Application & Integration, you will design and plan cloud application and infrastructure architectures, ensuring security and compliance. You will think strategically to create technical solutions that achieve client objectives in complex situations. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Design Cloud Architectures: Design and plan cloud application and infrastructure architectures that meet security and compliance requirements, connecting private and public clouds and providing orchestration, management, and application portability between them. • Develop Solution Strategies: Create complex solution strategies and designs that deliver value-added architecture consulting to global clients, owning the solution strategy and design. • Drive Technical Adoption: Define and execute technical adoption and migration strategies, working with highly technical teams to identify repeatable patterns and architectures for cloud migration. • Collaborate with Client Teams: Engage client development, infrastructure, security, and IT operations teams to understand their needs and develop effective solutions. • Deliver Architecture Consulting: Provide value-added architecture consulting to global clients, leveraging expertise in cloud application and infrastructure architectures.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • Programming: C++, C#, TypeScript, Java, Python, 8+ years
  • Cloud Architecture: Designing & delivering large-scale cloud services, 6+ years
  • Distributed Systems: Architecting resilient, scalable distributed systems, 6+ years
  • Security & Observability: Designing solutions with strong security, observability, monitoring, Advanced
  • High Availability & Performance: Building robust, highly available, performant systems, Advanced
  • Software Best Practices: Establishing engineering standards & software metrics, 5+ years
  • DevOps & Operations: End-to-end service lifecycle, production readiness, automation, Advanced
  • ML Engineering: Machine learning model development, release, operations, 4+ years
  • Development Standards: Creating software development standards, 3+ years
  • SaaS Engineering: SaaS application development & chargeback models, 2+ years
  • Architecture Leadership: Leading design reviews, making trade-offs, influencing architecture, Advanced
  • Cross‑Functional Leadership: Leading project development across teams, Advanced
  • Service Management & Tooling: Programmability, monitoring, security, performance, engineering systems, Advanced
  • Business & Stakeholder Collaboration: Understanding business and driving cohesive end‑to‑end experiences, Advanced

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Cloud Security Expertise: Deep expertise in cloud security and compliance, with experience in designing and implementing secure cloud architectures that meet regulatory requirements. • Multi-Cloud Experience: Experience working with multiple cloud providers, including private and public clouds, and providing orchestration, management, and application portability between them. • Technical Leadership: Experience leading highly technical teams and collaborating with stakeholders to define and execute technical adoption and migration strategies.

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.

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