Senior Solution Architect (f/m/x)

IBM

IBM

IT

Muri bei Bern, Switzerland

Posted on Apr 14, 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.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior Solution Architect in IBM Consulting, you’ll help define the technology direction for our enterprise clients. Working closely with stakeholders and delivery teams, you’ll turn business needs into clear, scalable solution designs across cloud, data, integration and AI.

You’ll be part of a technology‑driven consulting and engineering organization that delivers high‑quality cloud, platform and AI solutions. Our teams blend deep technical expertise with strong consulting skills to design, implement and evolve modern digital architectures.

In this role, you’ll shape the technical vision, support teams throughout implementation and ensure that the solutions we deliver are both practical and ready for what comes next. We value people who take ownership, enjoy solving complex problems and thrive in a collaborative, consulting‑focused environment.

Your primary responsibilities include:

  • Design and present scalable cloud and microservices architectures (AWS or RedHat) for enterprise clients
  • Lead customer workshops, consult stakeholders, and translate business needs into technical solutions
  • Create and maintain architecture documentation following Arc42 standards
  • Guide development teams in applying modern SDLC, DevOps, and GitOps practices
  • Ensure architectural quality regarding security, performance, reliability and maintainability
  • Contribute to solution designs involving GenAI, RAG pipelines and MCP server/client architectures
  • Support agile delivery teams (Scrum or SAFe) with architectural governance and hands‑on technical expertise
  • Collaborate closely with engineering, product owners and management to drive technical strategy

What we offer:

  • Individual career path
  • Access to countless trainings and certification offerings
  • A knowledge sharing culture
  • An environment where you are actively contributing your ideas
  • The possibility to work in projects in one of the largest IT companies

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics or a related field
  • 3–5+ years as Solution Architect (cloud & microservices focus) plus solid engineering background (7+ years in software development)
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS or Red Hat ecosystem and cloud-native architecture patterns
  • Proven experience designing and implementing microservices-based solutions
  • Solid understanding of SDLC, DevOps and GitOps practices (e.g. CI/CD, ArgoCD, Tekton)
  • Experience with container platforms (OpenShift or similar) and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
  • Strong background in architecture documentation (e.g. Arc42) and client-facing solution design
  • Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Fluent German and English - written & spoken (at least C1 level)
  • Swiss nationality or valid Swiss work permit / EU passport
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience in consulting environments and stakeholder management in complex organizations
  • Hands-on experience with modern frameworks and technologies (e.g. Spring, Quarkus, Kafka, React/Angular)
  • Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk)
  • Knowledge of security best practices (OWASP, API security, secure architecture design)
  • Exposure to GenAI tools and concepts (e.g. RAG, GitHub Copilot, LLM-based solutions)
  • Experience working with agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe) and related certifications
  • Experience with configuration management and automation tools (e.g. Ansible, Helm)
  • Consulting mindset with the ability to build trust and manage stakeholder expectations
  • Proactive problem-solver with strong analytical thinking
  • Ability to lead discussions, challenge assumptions, and drive well-founded architectural decisions
  • Team-oriented and comfortable working in interdisciplinary environments

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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