Azure Platfrom Architect

IBM

IBM

IT

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Feb 4, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Platform Technical Architect, you will leverage extensive technical knowledge within Automation, Data, or zStack platforms to design viable client solutions. You will provide input to product teams for solutions refinement, focusing on customized experiential selling through a "show me, don't tell me" approach.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Design Client Solutions: Design viable client solutions by leveraging current product capabilities, providing input to product teams for solutions refinement, and maintaining strong platform and product knowledge.

• Deliver Technical Proof Points: Create and deliver technical proof points through technical accelerators, including demonstrations, POTs, POCs, Workshops, Solution Design, and MVPs.

• Articulate Value Proposition: Articulate the value proposition and ROI of solutions, understanding the competitive landscape, and constructing relevant use cases to drive sales.

• Maintain Platform Knowledge: Maintain strong platform and product knowledge to provide expert guidance and support to clients and internal stakeholders.

• Construct Use Cases: Construct relevant use cases to drive sales, leveraging extensive technical knowledge and understanding of client needs.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Extensive Technical Knowledge: Experience with Automation, Data, or zStack platforms, with the ability to design viable client solutions and provide input to product teams for solutions refinement.

• Technical Accelerators: Experience in creating and delivering technical proof points through technical accelerators, including demonstrations, POTs, POCs, Workshops, Solution Design, and MVPs.

• Platform and Product Knowledge: Experience maintaining strong platform and product knowledge, articulating the value proposition and ROI of solutions, and understanding the competitive landscape.

• Customized Experiential Selling: Experience with customized experiential selling, using a "show me, don't tell me" approach to construct relevant use cases and drive sales.

• Solution Design: Experience designing client solutions that meet specific business needs, leveraging current product capabilities and providing expert guidance and support to clients and internal stakeholders.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Advanced Platform Knowledge: Experience with multiple Automation, Data, or zStack platforms, with the ability to integrate and optimize solutions across different technologies.

• Technical Innovation: Experience in identifying emerging trends and technologies, and applying this knowledge to create innovative solutions and accelerate business outcomes.

• Industry Expertise: Experience working in various industries, with an understanding of industry-specific challenges and opportunities, and the ability to tailor solutions to meet these needs.

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.

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