Your Role and Responsibilities:
As a IBM zTPS (Transaction Processing Platform) Solution Architect, you will be responsible for defining and producing world-class, client focused IBM Z modernization and management solutions. These solutions will be implemented by our IBM Technology Experts Labs delivery consultants, to the high standards defined by yourself. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs, Solution Architect team, you will be client focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges.
To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' in this role may include, but not be limited to…
• Working closely with IBM Z clients' to understand their main challenges and develop solutions to help them transform mission-critical IBM Z applications for hybrid cloud environments with stability, security, and agility.
• Create IBM zTPS solutions that use robust toolsets to develop and maintain applications; visualize applications, data, and jobs; develop and test for cloud native app development and modernization in a flexible consumption model.
• Working together with IBM Z and Expert Labs sales team to respond to client opportunities with accurate and deliverable proposals.
• Working collaboratively with IBM Z Ecosystem to support customers transformation initiatives.
• Contributing to the development of assets, methodologies and service offerings that will help in making the migration services scalable and repeatable.
• Working closely with our WW Technology Expert Labs delivery teams to ensure seamless transition from solutioning phase all the way through to implementation.
• Demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation, curiosity, and initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team.
• Understanding clients' main challenges and developing solutions that helps them reach true business value by working thru the phases of discovery, design, development integration, implementation, migration, and product support with a sense of urgency.
As a Solution Architect you'll be a pivotal team member who connects the client's technical, functional and implementation requirements with a solution design and proposal. You'll work closely with clients and sellers to build solutions based on meeting the client's business outcomes and known best practices for the technology and industry. In this fast-paced role, you'll design, and construct build work breakdown structure leading to the rough order of magnitude to price and statement of work. A successful Solution Architect will demonstrate a natural bias towards self-motivation and navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions that ensure world class delivery.
If you are passionate about success with both your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you. To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' of this opportunity may include, but not be limited to…
- End-to-End Technical Guidance: Providing expert end-to-end technical guidance to lead discovery discussions with prospective clients, assess architecture needs for projects, work with technical leads and sellers to create proposals.
- Finding the Best Architectural Outcomes: Leading client workshops; influencing client stakeholders at all levels to find the best architectural outcomes that align to business and technology strategies and initiatives into actionable roadmaps with clear direction on execution to ensure business value and ROI.
- Maintaining Solution Review Boards: Developing and contributing to the solution review boards for proposals including oversight for technology assurance, quality and risk evaluation
- Building Successful Relationships: Establishing and maintaining personal relationship at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.
