Solution Architect

IBM Qatar; Montreal; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Enterprise Solution Architect to transform client businesses through innovative cloud solutions. The role involves designing complex architectures and providing technical leadership while collaborating with various stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in the payments industry and hybrid cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in large-scale IT project design and delivery.
• 3+ years as a solution architect for hybrid cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy hybrid cloud architectures for payments transformation.
• Lead consulting engagements and support sales opportunities.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Agile methods

DevOps

Microservices

Leadership

Education

Cloud solution architect certification

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling : To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, let's talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As an Enterprise Solution Architect, you directly help clients transform their business and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of Cloud platforms. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.

Your primary responsibilities include :

• Design, develop and deploy hybrid, multi-cloud and cloud-native architectures and solutions for payments transformation initiatives that support the business requirements of the client. Solution responsibility can include but is not limited to, infrastructure strategy and design, systems strategy and design, communications strategy and design, and data center strategy and design.
• Lead and create the Solution Architecture, High-Level and Low-Level design deliverables with client architects.
• Bring expertise in hybrid cloud platform security governance and compliance.
• Design the HA / DR strategies for the hybrid cloud solution.
• Best practices in this role use reference architectures and service product assets to develop conceptual and detailed designs.
• Architects are responsible for performance, availability and scalability of the solution and the impact on the client's infrastructure.
• Support sales opportunities.
• Lead, perform and mentor on consulting engagement pursuits. This includes participating in client opportunity identification and qualification calls, understanding client needs and objectives, articulating and formulating solutions design for proposals and statements of work that align to the client needs while managing delivery risk, and working with the sales team through deal progression and signing.
• Engagement oversight. This includes following the Delivery Roadmap to successful project execution. This includes staffing consulting project teams, assisting project leadership (i.e., project manager or engagement leader) in defining or modifying project approach and structure as necessary, deliverables review and participation in key project events as appropriate.
• Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 10+ years of experience in design and delivery of complex and large-scale IT projects.
• Expertise in the Payments Industry and the design, delivery of payments systems (ACH, Wires, Real Time, Interac, Cheques, Card Payments etc.). Candidates with strong experience in Banking and Financial services will also be considered.
• 3+ years of experience as a solution architect providing hands-on technical leadership for the end-to-end design, delivery and management of hybrid cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, IBM, GCP).
• Cloud solution architect certification in one of major cloud providers (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience in design and delivery of cloud-native solutions with Microservices, containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Proven experience in design and delivery of cloud-native solutions with Microservices, containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Experience leading projects delivered through a globally integrated capability of onsite, nearshore, and offshore teams.
• Experience with Agile methods & DevOps.
• Experience in design and delivery of scalable, fault-tolerant and resilient systems. Familiar with data center concepts and best practices, high-availability systems, capacity planning, system performance evaluation, and diagnostic techniques and methodologies.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Understanding of Red Hat ecosystem (OpenShift, Ansible, RH Fuse, RH SSO, etc.).
• Expertise in solution infrastructure as code and DevOps automations.
• Expertise in Datacenter moves to Cloud.
• Familiar with IT Operations and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice.

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