Application Architect - AWS

Job description / Role

Introduction
As an IBM Application Architect, you directly help clients transform their business and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of IBM platforms. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As an AWS Architect, you directly help clients transform their business and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver solutions using AWS suite. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.

Role

Ability to
* Work with client's key Business and IT stakeholders as well as C-level executives to demonstrate IBM's Journey to Cloud proposition
* Understand client's business and technology strategy, and translate that into a client specific Cloud PoV
* Architect cloud solutions and participate in cloud adoption, modernization and migration strategies for our clients.
* Perform current application portfolio assessment, determine workload treatment paths, and recommend the target solution architecture of a hybrid cloud environment
* Develop compelling solutions and proposals that differentiate IBM methodology and architecture and positions IBM as the multicloud partner
* Identify and deliver proof of concept or minimum viable product to create immediate client impact
* Work with a global/virtual teams to collaborate and deliver the best in class products to our clients
* Design and help develop AWS cloud applications that meets and surpasses the client expectations

Required Professional and Technical Expertise
* 15+ years experienced of overall solution architecture experience in complex environments.
* 10+ years demonstrable experience using cloud development platforms from multiple cloud vendors
* 5+ large scale end to end projects in AWS. At least one large scale migration experience in a Bank.
* 2+ large scale end to end projects in MultiCloud and Hybrid environment with 2+ Public Cloud vendors (preferably AWS and Azure).
* Proven background with containerization and container management
* Extensive experience architecting and developing cloud applications for AWS
* Certified in AWS Architecture (Preferably Professional)

Requirements

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
* Deep knowledge and understanding of AWS PaaS and IaaS features
* Hands on experience on designing and developing services on AWS (Web Apps, Mobile Apps, APIs)
* Experience in design of solutions using AWS object storage services like DB, Tables, Files and Blobs
* Microservice design and development on AWS using Container Service and Service Fabric
* Hands on experience of executing cloud native projects in AWS with DevOps using AWS as well as Open Source Tools
* Experience in securing the applications on AWS (PaaS, IaaS etc)
* Experience of migrating workload to AWS from private cloud, other clouds or on-prem infrastructure of customers

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
* Deep knowledge and understanding of AWS PaaS and IaaS features
* Hands on experience on designing and developing services on AWS (Web Apps, Mobile Apps, APIs)
* Experience in design of solutions using AWS object storage services like DB, Tables, Files and Blobs
* Microservice design and development on AWS using Container Service and Service Fabric
* Hands on experience of executing cloud native projects in AWS with DevOps using AWS as well as Open Source Tools
* Experience in securing the applications on AWS (PaaS, IaaS etc)
* Experience of migrating workload to AWS from private cloud, other clouds or on-prem infrastructure of customers

About Business Unit
IBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world's economy. IBM Services partners with the world's leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.

Your Life at IBM
What matters to you when you're looking for your next career challenge?

Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities - where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust - where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.

Impact. Inclusion. Infinite Experiences. Do your best work ever.

About IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that progress is made through progressive thinking, progressive leadership, progressive policy and progressive action. IBMers believe that the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 IBMers serving clients in 170 countries.

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

Being You at IBM
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Preferred Education: Master's Degree Commissionable: No

About the Company

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.