GRC Senior Delivery Consultant - Watsonx.Gov

Avature; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Delivery Consultant to join their dynamic team. This role involves delivering innovative IBM Technology solutions that align with client goals, providing expert guidance, and optimizing business value. You'll collaborate with clients to address real challenges, utilizing your technical expertise and consultative skills. The company fosters a collaborative culture where continuous learning and personal development are prioritized, ensuring you can thrive in your career while making a positive impact. If you're passionate about technology and client success, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Healthcare benefits

401(k)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Generous paid time off

Training and educational resources

Diverse employee resource groups

Qualifications

• Experience in designing AI Governance solutions with Watsonx.gov.
• Proven track record in leading implementation teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert technical guidance and lead discovery discussions with clients.
• Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders from engineers to CIOs.

Skills

AI Governance

Problem-solving

Communication

Service orientation

Agile methodology

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Watsonx.gov

IBM OpenPages

Cloud technology

Job description

Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams 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 Lab Services means confidently accelerating the time-to-value of software solutions and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best: running and growing their businesses.

Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while ongoing development will advance 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 you.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior 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'll work closely with clients and sellers to build solutions based on meeting the client's business outcomes using best practice patterns for the technology and industry.

You will also 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 client-focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical team, you'll collaborate with clients to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges.

If you are passionate about success with your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you. 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 clients, assess project architecture needs, and work with technical leads and sellers to create proposals.
• Technical Solution Workshops: Conducting and participating in technical solution workshops.
• Solving Client Challenges Effectively: Understanding clients' main challenges and developing solutions that help them reach true 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.
• Building Successful Relationships: Establishing and maintaining personal relationships at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – with experience navigating challenging debates to reach healthy resolutions.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Designing AI Governance solutions using Watsonx.gov: A provable track record of conducting requirement definition and scoping sessions with customers in the GRC space, particularly in Model Risk Management, and designing their Data and AI Governance solution, preferably using the Watsonx.gov platform.
• Planning, Documenting, and Sizing Watsonx.gov Services: A provable track record of planning, documenting, and sizing MRM/AI and data solutions, including functional and implementation requirements that connect phases such as design, development, integration, migration, production support, and development operations, as well as model risk identification, model tiering and risk mitigation or control.
• Leading Implementation Team: Skills and knowledge for leading a team of Software engineers during the implementation and deployment of IBM OpenPages and Watsonx.Gov solutions.
• Governance, Risks, and Compliance (GRC) Expertise: Deep knowledge and experience building GRC solutions using industry-wide best practices and liaising with organizational Risk and Compliance teams.
• Build credibility and client-centric skills: Skills and knowledge for building credibility with client stakeholders aligned with GRC and AI Governance solutions.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Data & AI Technology Expertise: Experience working with a broad spectrum of Data & AI technology solutions, including AI platforms and AI governance tooling, preferably Watsonx.governance, Watsonx.data, or Watsonx.ai.
• Agile methodology experience: Good understanding of Agile, collaborative methodology to design, configure, deploy, and maintain systems.
• Cloud technology implementation: Experience implementing cloud technology across complex projects.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company’s Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM’s global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients’ growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

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 every day, 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 ongoing 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 every day 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.

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 50 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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well-being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long-term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance-based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part-time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Job Title: GRC Senior Delivery Consultant - Watsonx.Gov

Date posted: 06-Feb-2025

Job ID: 14387

City / Township / Village: Texas, North Carolina, California

Country: United States

Work arrangement: Hybrid

Area of work: Consulting

Employment type: Regular

Contract type: Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year: 125,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year: 209,000.00

Position type: Professional

Up to 20% or 1 day a week

Company: (0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift: General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?