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Application Architect-EAI

IBM

IT

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Posted on Mar 2, 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 an Application Architect specializing in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), you will serve as a thought leader in the development of strategic middleware designs and standards. Your expertise will enable optimal solutions for clients, working with and enhancing complex, highly integrated enterprise applications. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Design Middleware Solutions: Translate business requirements into technical solutions and collaborate with application developers and stakeholders to support tactical and strategic middleware initiatives. • Oversee Middleware Technologies: Install, configure, upgrade, test, and debug middleware technologies on Linux and Windows platforms, including IIB, Software AG, WebSphere DataPower, SI, Tibco, and Mule. • Promote Emerging Technologies: Identify and promote emerging and growth areas in the industry, such as automation, DevOps, Cloud, blockchain, and IoT. • Architect Environments: Architect and design production and non-production environments. • Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work with clients and stakeholders to deliver optimal solutions and support middleware initiatives.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 7-10 yrs experience preferred, junior application architect with cloud certificate preferred.
• prefer more hands on experience rather than leadership skills
• There are no specific requirement on particular language, but the candidate should have a particular strong language (e.g. Java, Python, Javascript)
• The role is more on R&D (Research and development) the business domain knowledge is not a critical part of the job
• The candidate would participate into China (GBA) focus projects in the future. Knowledge and sense to China IT ecosystem, laws (like PIPL) is important
• Cantonese is needed, can communicate in daily work, English spoken is not must
• Excellent communication skills

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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