IBM

Introduction

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.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Application Architect, you will be the overall application architecture authority within large-scale, mission‑critical banking transformation programs. You will define, govern, and evolve end‑to‑end application architectures for core banking modernization, ensuring alignment across business strategy, regulatory requirements, and enterprise technology standards.

You are expected to act as a trusted advisor to client senior stakeholders, a technical leader for multi‑vendor delivery teams, and an architecture decision maker who balances stability, scalability, regulatory compliance, and long‑term evolution.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Own end-to-end application architecture for large-scale banking core system transformation programs, including core banking package implementation and surrounding system integration.
• Define target-state architectures and migration strategies for legacy core systems, covering package-based core banking, coexistence models, and controlled cutover.
• Lead system integration architecture across core banking, channels, payments, risk, data, and external systems using APIs, messaging, and event-driven patterns.
• Establish architecture governance and make key design decisions across multiple teams and vendors, ensuring alignment with banking regulations and enterprise standards.
• Provide technical leadership across the full delivery lifecycle, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and production readiness of mission-critical banking platforms.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, translating business and regulatory needs into long-term architecture direction.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong experience in architecting enterprise-scale applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and OpenShift, including hybrid and regulated banking environments.
• Proven ability in end-to-end application architecture design, covering legacy systems modernization to cloud-native microservices architectures.
• Hands-on experience in core banking package implementation and system integration with complex surrounding systems using APIs, messaging, and event-driven patterns.
• Solid background in distributed system and microservices architecture, including scalability, resiliency, data consistency, and transaction handling.
• Excellent capability in architecture design documentation and presentation, able to clearly communicate architecture decisions to technical teams and senior stakeholders.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience leading large-scale banking core system transformation programs, including coexistence and migration strategy design.
• Deep understanding of legacy codebases (monolithic COBOL / Java systems) and practical approaches to service extraction and modernization.
• Strong integration architecture experience across core banking, channels, payments, data platforms, and external third-party systemsin complex environments.
• Familiarity with multi-vendor or SI-led delivery models, with experience driving architecture alignment and governance.
• Demonstrated ability to act as a senior technical advisor, influencing architecture direction and long-term platform strategy.

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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.