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Introduction

Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you'll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business. Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Solution Architect you'll be a pivotal team member who connects the client's technical functional and implementation requirements with a solution design and proposal. You'll work closely with clients and sellers to build solutions based on the meeting the client's business outcomes and known best practices for the technology and industry. In this fast-paced role, you'll design, and construct build work breakdown structure leading to the rough order of magnitude leading to the price and statement of work. A successful Solution Architect will demonstrate a natural bias towards self-motivation and navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions that ensure world class delivery. If you are passionate about success with both your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you. To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' of this opportunity may include, but not be limited to… End-to-End Technical Guidance: Providing expert end-to-end technical guidance to lead discovery discussions with prospective clients, assess architecture needs for projects, work with technical leads and sellers to create proposals. Finding the Best Architectural Outcomes: Leading client workshops; influencing client stakeholders at all levels to find the best architectural outcomes that align to business and technology strategies and initiatives into actionable roadmaps with clear direction on execution to ensure business value and ROI. Maintaining Solution Review Boards: Developing and contributing to the solution review boards for proposals including oversight for technology assurance, quality and risk evaluation Building Successful Relationships: Establishing and maintaining personal relationship at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong knowledge of data integration, migration skills and tools.
• Hands-on experience in data platform, data warehouse, and data lake design and implementation.
• Familiar with database design, documentation, and coding.
• Up to date understanding of best practices regarding system security measures.
• Experience in design and implement data governance process and tools is a plus.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Create up to 3 bullets max. You can get inspired by these few examples below. Software Open Source Technology Expertise: Experience working with a broad spectrum of software open source technology solution. Cloud Consulting Experience: Experience working in consulting of solutions including SaaS / IaaS / PaaS and/or Cloud. Tech expertise in AIX/Linux: Deep technical expertise in AIX and/or Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or SUSE). Technical Skills: Deep technical expertise in at least one technical domain with associated system software such as virtualization (PowerVM), automation (Ansible), security (PowerVC), resiliency (PowerHA), database (Oracle and SAP HANA) and performance (AIX and/or Linux)