Application Architect for Data

Introduction
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 the around world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting embraces 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 IBM 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 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.

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to support go-to-market activities in the data and analytics space. This role will play a critical part in driving new business development, technical solution development, and thought leadership.

Key Responsibilities
- New Business Development: Support new business development in IBM’s Data Platform Services
- Client Engagement: Work with clients to understand data platform challenges and requirements
- Solution Development: Develope technical solutions and support proposal development
- Thought Leadership: Share technical points of view and thought leadership
- Relationship Management: Manage relationships with client architects and technical leaders
- Talent Development: Grow and mentor technical talent

What we offer:

- Individual career path
- Access to countless trainings and certification offerings
- A knowledge sharing culture
- An environment where you are actively contributing your ideas
- The possibility to work in projects in one of the largest IT companies

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 15+ years in providing architecture and technical leadership of large-scale data warehouse cloud migration projects from on-premise SQL Server Data Warehouse workloads to AWS Cloud.
- 10+ years Comprehensive Data Governance and Quality Leadership experience in data quality management with expertise in building enterprise Data-Quality-as-a-Service platform
- 8+ years in designing and delivering enterprise data platforms in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, utilizing Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Solutions Architecture and Data Platform like Snowflake & Databricks.
- Deep hands-on knowledge about Industry-Specific Compliance Solutions for Regulated Sectors like Tobacco, delivered high-availability, regulation-compliant data architecture for the Tobacco clients.
- Recognized for Thought Leadership and driving innovation and strategic thinking across global teams.
- AWS Professional certified, Snowflake SnowPro Certified
- Proven collaboration experience with major hyperscaler and Data Cloud solution provider like AWS, Microsoft, Snowflake, Confluent, Databricks.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication in English
- Proven experience presenting and delivering technical presentations at the CxO level.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Experience building and productionizing Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning models
- Written and oral communication in French and German
- Expertise delivering data and analytics solutions using IBM technology, including Watson X and other IBM solutions

About Business UnitIBM 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.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career,