ApplicationArchitect AWS Cloud Migration

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**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 - AWS Cloud - in IBM Consulting, you’ll serve as a leader in defining innovative solutions for clients.

You’ll be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation.

You’ll collaborate with client stakeholders and internal partners to understand the business problem and requirements, constraints of the system and concerns of the various stakeholders to systematically build and transform detailed solutions (architectures) for the client.

This will be a Sell and Deliver role where you will own the cloud engagement end to end from the Pre Sales stage to Delivery and position yourself as the owner of the Hybrid Cloud architecture within your team serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.

What you’ll do:
* Create a scalable modular architecture in AWS
* Own Technical Design for Cloud Migration and Modernization engagements on AWS
* Create cloud migration strategies and define delivery architecture and migration plans
* Analyze Complex application landscapes, anticipate potential problems and future trends, assess opportunities and potential solutions with associated impacts, and risks.
* Architect, implement and deploy DevOps based, end to end application
* Application Solution design and implementation using AWS PaaS and SaaS offerings.
* Design and Build using AWS native services
* Develop reference architectures, patterns, and guidelines to ensure consistency and efficiency across cloud-based applications.
* Assess client environments provide advisory and implementation of recommendations based on best practices
* Serve as a subject matter expert in cloud technologies, staying up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies.
* Provide thought leadership and mentorship to technical teams, promoting best practices in cloud architecture and design.
* Demonstrate leadership by leading multi-functional teams for a bid, owning architectural point of view and influence people and organization including executives, when issues are complex/difficult and require considerable diplomacy.
* You will be accountable for architecture of Projects or Programs Involving multi- Functional, Country-Wide Teams.
* Responsible For Overall Program Success.

Success measures are Customer Satisfaction, Personal and Team Utilization and Business Unit Targets of Signings, Revenue and Gross Profit
* For Pre-sales activity you will be accountable for solutioning and proposal building: Lead the team and deliver the winning proposal to customer following IBM Internal solutioning and approval processes.
**Required technical and professional expertise**
* Relevant experience in IT architecture, software development, or a related field * Strong understanding of cloud computing, hybrid cloud, and AI technologies * Experience with IBM software and Red Hat technologies * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills * Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders * Experience with Agile development methodologies and cloud application testing * Strong collaboration and leadership skills to guide technical teams * Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing requirements * Strong understanding of modernization frameworks and ability to translate IT requirements into modernized solutions * Experience with digital modernization assets, methods, and collateral * Strong innovative thinking and problem-solving skills to design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
* Experience in Agile ways of working
* Creative problem-solving skills
* Excellent written and oral communication skills
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, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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