Solution Architect
IBM
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Job summary
IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is shaping careers at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, delivering high‑impact solutions for public and private clients. You’ll work with industry leaders, gain hands‑on experience with cutting edge technologies, and contribute to meaningful programs from day one.
In this role, you’ll lead hybrid cloud application modernization with a focus on cloud migrations, secure connectivity, and cloud-native architectures, collaborating across suppliers and IBM teams.
Qualifications
- Familiar with AWS and/or Azure and microservice architectures.
- Experience with cloud-native services and DevOps tooling.
- Strong architectural leadership for cloud modernization initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead design and implementation of hybrid cloud app modernization projects for public sector clients.
- Provide architectural and engineering leadership to migrations and cloud-native solutions.
- Develop architecture diagrams, component models and technology stacks for hybrid environments.
- Build strong client relationships as a trusted advisor.
Skills
Education
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Job description
At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.
You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.
We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.
We offer:
- Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
- More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
Your role and responsibilities
We are seeking IT Architects to lead the design and implementation of hybrid cloud application modernisation projects with our Public Sector clients. You will provide technical leadership for migrating existing applications to cloud and for building new cloud native solutions.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing, architectural, consultative and engineering support for our customers’ journeys to the cloud
- Bringing industry insight to deliver innovative solutions, that are tailored to the specific needs of our customers
- Leadership for transformations of enterprise complex projects, from system requirements through delivery and production/deployment, providing architectural and hands‑on technical leadership to ensure overall solution integrity
- Building strong relationships with our clients and acting as a trusted advisor
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Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
You will be familiar with AWS or/and Azure and be comfortable with Microservice architectures and a range of cloud, devops and integration technologies. You will have worked on hybrid cloud complex systems integration projects designing elements of the target cloud solution and its integration with existing on‑premise applications.
You will be comfortable working in ‘rainbow’ teams with multiple different suppliers or as part of a wholly IBM team. Your background is likely to be a mix of large‑scale waterfall deliveries and more agile projects. You will be a hands‑on professional with a proven track‑record in keeping your skills up to date, ideally evidenced through recognized certifications.
Proficiency in designing and implementing hybrid cloud solutions combining on‑premises and cloud‑based services.
Experience in creating architecture diagrams component models and technology stacks for hybrid environments.
Deep understanding of major cloud providers (e.g. AWS Azure Google Cloud) and their respective services.
Familiarity with cloud‑native services serverless computing and managed services.
Experience in designing managing and optimizing on‑premises infrastructure including virtualization storage and networking.
Knowledge of on‑premises automation tools (e.g. Ansible Puppet Chef).
Proficiency in designing and implementing secure connectivity solutions (e.g. VPNs Direct Connect VPN Gateways).
Experience in integrating on-premi
- Public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes etc.)
- Strong understanding & delivery experience of cloud native architectures
- Good understanding of scaled agile delivery methods, i.e. SAFe or LeSS
This role is subject to pre‑employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Good knowledge of system design & delivery
- Experienced in architectural languages or frameworks e.g. UML, Zachman, TOGAF
- Understanding of Automation in the development, testing and operations context.
IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
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 everyday, 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 on‑going 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 everyday 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.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
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 500 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.
IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.
Solution Architect
132049
State / Province
Hampshire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester
United Kingdom
Hybrid
Regular
Professional
General (daytime)
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