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Solution Architect-Data Platforms

IBM

IT

Canberra, Australia

Posted on Feb 26, 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 seasoned Solution Architect specializing in Data Platforms, you design end-to-end Big Data Solutions across various platforms, leveraging your extensive experience in managing large data repositories. You possess a deep understanding of industry standards, best practices, and key technologies such as the HADOOP Framework and Cloud native platforms. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Design End-to-End Solutions: Create tailored data solutions for clients, utilizing Cloud and traditional data platform offerings, and oversee the architecture for data platform and cognitive components. • Develop Data Strategies: Leverage expertise in managing large data repositories to develop effective data management strategies, incorporating industry standards and best practices. • Oversee Architecture: Guide the architecture for data platform and cognitive components, including unstructured data technologies, annotation, and related data and analytics. • Collaborate with Clients: Work closely with clients to understand their needs and deliver customized data solutions that meet their requirements. • Drive Technical Excellence: Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies, applying deep expertise in data platforms to drive technical excellence and innovation.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Deep Expertise in Data Platforms: Proven experience designing end-to-end Big Data Solutions across various platforms, with extensive expertise in managing large data repositories with a focus on AI-ready data. • Industry Standards and Best Practices: In-depth knowledge of industry standards, best practices, and key technologies such as HADOOP, Apache Spark and Red Hat OpenShift. • Cloud Native Platforms: Experience with Cloud native platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google, IBM Cloud, or Cloud Native data platforms like Databricks and Snowflake, with the ability to leverage these platforms to create tailored data solutions. • Unstructured Data Technologies: Strong understanding of unstructured data technologies, annotation, and related data and analytics, with the ability to guide the architecture for data platform and cognitive components. • Data Management Strategies: Proven ability to develop effective data management strategies, incorporating industry standards and best practices, and leveraging expertise in managing large data repositories.

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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