Software Architect

IBM Computing; Montreal; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an Application Architect/Technical Lead, where you will leverage your expertise in cloud platforms and the payments industry to deliver innovative solutions. You will design, develop, and deploy hybrid cloud architectures while leading technical teams and ensuring compliance with industry standards. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex IT projects and collaborate with various stakeholders to drive transformation in the payments sector.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in large-scale IT projects.
• 3+ years as application architect or technical lead.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy hybrid cloud architectures for payments.
• Lead application architecture and collaborate on automation strategies.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Payments Industry

Technical leadership

API design

Education

Cloud solution architect certification

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Introduction

As an Application Architect/Technical lead with IBM Payments Center, 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 role and responsibilities

• Design, development and deployment of 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 not limited to, infrastructure strategy and design, systems strategy and design, communications strategy and design, and data center strategy and design.

• Lead, create Application Architecture, High-Level and Low-Level design deliverables with client architects.

• Bring expertise in hybrid cloud platform security governance and compliance.

• 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

• Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes

Required technical and professional expertise

• 6+ 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 an application architect or technical lead 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 with Micro services, containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)

• *Experience in REST API Interface design, API Gateways, Swagger/OpenAPI standard, OAuth

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Understanding of Red Hat ecosystem (OpenShift, Ansible, RH Fuse, RH SSO, etc.)

• Familiar with infrastructure as code and DevOps automations

• Familiar with IT Operations and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice

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.