Infrastructure & Technology Solution Architect – Data Platform Professional London, GB

Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs team means you will have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you\’ll bring together all necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems.

The Solution Architect team in IBM Technology Expert Labs plays a key role in addressing the client\’s functional, non-functional and technology implementation requirements with a solution design and proposal. Solution Architects are deep product experts that design the to-be architecture with products and services leveraging standards, best practices, and assets. This team works closely with clients, sellers and the delivery team to architect, propose and build technical solutions based on the client\’s desired business outcomes, IBM technology, and industry best practices.

An excellent learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a highly skilled team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators as you apply passion to work that solves our client’s business critical needs.

Your role and responsibilities

As an IBM Technology Expert Labs Solution Architect for Data Platform, you will be part of a team of Solution Architects focused on designing solutions with IBM’s Data Platform technologies. You will work closely with clients and account teams to define technology solutions including technical architectures and technology services that meet the client\’s business goals. In this role, you will lead evaluation of the business needs and defining solutions with IBM technology, recommended target state architecture, roadmap to achieve target state and recommended Technology Expert Labs services leveraging services offering or custom SOW for the solution implementation. A successful Solution Architect will look for repeatable architecture patterns, automation, and assets to be deployed at scale.

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 role may include, but not be limited to…

• Providing end-to-end technical guidance to lead discovery discussions with clients, assess architecture needs for projects, work with clients and sellers to create solution proposals, and guide delivery teams during implementation.
• Assuming overall technical responsibility for the success of proposed solution design, solution content, and solution implementation.
• Identifying solution patterns that include software configuration, systems architecture, and related sizing in phases such as design, development, integration, production support and operations.
• Scaling the global Solution Architect team by creating or guiding the creation of reusable assets and accelerators.
• Being a trusted advisor at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – navigating challenging debates to reach healthy resolutions.

Required education

Bachelor\’s Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor\’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Technology Skills: Skills and knowledge in IBM’s Data Platform technologies
• Track record of sizing and defining services focused solutions including functional and implementation requirements for phases such as design, development, integration, production support and operations.
• Client Stakeholder Credibility Building: Experience in building credibility and service orientation with client stakeholders.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Primary Technology Expertise: Deep expertise in AI Governance Concepts with watsonx.governance skills, Data Lakehouse concepts with watsonx.data and overall Watsonx Platform architecture and capabilities. Expertise on Agentic AI Concepts with Watsonx Orchestrate skills is considered a plus.
• Client facing Experience: Experience working with clients in defining technology solutions.

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 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?

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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Job Title

Solution Architect

Job ID

46121

City / Township / Village

London

State / Province

London, City of

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Infrastructure & Technology

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 60% or 3 days a week (home on weekends – based on project requirements)

Company

(8660) IBM United Kingdom Limited

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

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