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Application Architect-Application Modernization

IBM

IT

Taipei City, Taiwan

Posted on Mar 10, 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 Application Modernization, you will design and guide the transformation of legacy systems into modern, scalable, and cloud-native architectures. You will combine deep technical expertise with strategic vision to ensure that applications are restructured, replatformed, or refactored to align with current business needs and future growth. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Design Modernization Initiatives: Lead the end-to-end architecture of modernization initiatives across cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud, ensuring scalable and maintainable applications.

• Develop Microservices Architecture: Design microservices, APIs, data models, and integration patterns that support modular applications, and define containerization and orchestration strategies using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Implement CI/CD Pipelines: Collaborate with development, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to implement CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks, ensuring robust testing governance and performance optimization.

• Guide AI Adoption: Guide the adoption of generative AI technologies, such as Watson, Azure OpenAI, Bedrock, and Vertex AI, into modernized applications, and develop modernization roadmaps using methodologies like AMM and tools like ICA.

• Ensure Architectural Oversight: Provide architectural oversight for data migration, legacy system integration, and hybrid cloud deployments, ensuring secure, resilient, and compliant systems.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Cloud Platform Expertise: Experience with cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud, with a focus on designing and implementing scalable and maintainable applications.

• Microservices Architecture Knowledge: Experience with designing microservices, APIs, data models, and integration patterns that support modular applications, as well as defining containerization and orchestration strategies using Docker and Kubernetes.

• CI/CD Pipeline Implementation: Experience with implementing CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks, ensuring robust testing governance and performance optimization throughout the modernization lifecycle.

• Generative AI Technologies: Experience with guiding the adoption of generative AI technologies, such as Watson, Azure OpenAI, Bedrock, and Vertex AI, into modernized applications.

• Modernization Methodologies: Experience with modernization methodologies like AMM (Application Modernization Method) and tools like ICA (IBM Cloud Automation), with a focus on developing modernization roadmaps.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Cloud-Native Security Expertise: Exposure to designing and implementing secure, resilient, and compliant systems with a focus on cloud-native security and governance. This includes experience with cloud security frameworks, threat modeling, and compliance regulations. Familiarity with security best practices for cloud-native applications is beneficial.

• Legacy System Integration: Exposure to integrating legacy systems, such as RPG, AIX, and Mainframe Z, with modernized applications. This includes experience with data migration, system integration patterns, and hybrid cloud deployments. Knowledge of legacy system architectures and integration challenges is helpful.

• Hybrid Cloud Deployments: Exposure to designing and implementing hybrid cloud deployments, including experience with cloud platform integration, data migration, and system integration patterns. Familiarity with hybrid cloud management tools and frameworks is beneficial.

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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