IBM Storage Delivery Consultant

IBM Computing; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Delivery Consultant to work closely with clients on IBM Technology solutions. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of expertise in storage technologies, problem-solving skills, and a collaborative spirit to design, deliver, and optimize solutions that meet client goals. This role offers opportunities to solve real business challenges in a dynamic, client-focused environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional expertise in storage technologies.
• Familiarity with design, deployment, and optimization of data storage solutions.
• Experience with hybrid cloud and data resiliency solutions.

Responsibilities

• Understand clients' challenges and develop solutions.
• Create and execute agile plans for project delivery.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Storage Technology Skills

Problem-solving skills

Collaboration skills

Communication skills

Tools

IBM FlashSystem

IBM DS8000

TDMF Tool Kit

Job description

Overview

Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs team means you\'ll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you\'ll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business.

Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Delivery Consultant, you will work closely with IBM clients and partners to design, deliver, and optimize IBM Technology solutions that align with your clients\' goals. In this role, you will apply your technical expertise to ensure world-class delivery while leveraging your consultative skills such as problem-solving issue- / hypothesis-based methodologies, communication, and service orientation skills. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs, a team that is client focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical, you\'ll collaborate with clients to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges.

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…

• Solving Client Challenges Effectively: Understanding clients\' main challenges and developing solutions that helps them reach through business value by working through the phases of design, development integration, implementation, migration and product support with a sense of urgency.
• Agile Planning and Execution: Creating and executing agile plans where you are responsible for installing and provisioning assets, testing, migrating to production, and day-two operations.
• Technical Solution Workshops: Conducting and participating in technical solution workshops.
• Building Effective Relationships: Developing successful relationships at all levels—from engineers to CxOs—with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.
• Self-Motivated Problem Solver: Demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation, curiosity, initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions.
• Collaboration and Communication: Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Storage Technology Skills: Familiar with the design, deployment and optimization of technologies including storage for data and AI, hybrid cloud and data resiliency solutions with IBM Storage technologies including IBM FlashSystem, IBM DS8000, IBM Storage Scale System, IBM Tape Storage Systems, and IBM Storage software including Storage Scale, Storage Protect / Protect Plus, and Storage Virtualize or equivalent enterprise storage solutions.
• Understand mainframe / Block storage design and architecture. Mainly TS7700, DS8K. data migrations using TDMF tool kit.
• 5+ years of Professional expertise

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Expertise in IBM Storage Offerings: Deep technical expertise at least one of the following IBM Storage offerings, IBM FlashSystem, IBM DS8000, IBM Storage Scale System, IBM Tape Storage Systems, and IBM Storage software including Storage Scale, Storage Protect / Protect Plus, and Storage Virtualize or equivalent enterprise storage solutions.
• 5+ years of Professional expertise
• Fluent in English, French is desirable

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.