IBM Storage Solution Architect 

Canada, Ontario, Markham 

492264233

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Solution Architect you’ll be a pivotal team member who connects the client’s technical functional and implementation requirements with a solution design and proposal. You’ll work closely with clients and sellers to build solutions based on the meeting the client’s business outcomes and known best practices for the technology and industry. In this fast-paced role, you’ll design, and construct build work breakdown structure leading to the rough order of magnitude leading to the price and statement of work. A successful Solution Architect will demonstrate a natural bias towards self-motivation and navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions that ensure world class delivery.

• End-to-End Technical Guidance: Providing expert end-to-end technical guidance to lead discovery discussions with prospective clients, assess architecture needs for projects, work with technical leads and sellers to create proposals.
• Finding the Best Architectural Outcomes:Leading client workshops; influencing client stakeholders at all levels to find the best architectural outcomes that align to business and technology strategies and initiatives into actionable roadmaps with clear direction on execution to ensure business value and ROI.
• Maintaining Solution Review Boards:Developing and contributing to the solution review boards for proposals including oversight for technology assurance, quality and risk evaluation
• Building Successful Relationships: Establishing and maintaining personal relationship at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Documenting and Sizing Services: A provable track record of documenting and sizing services focused solutions including functional and implementation requirements that connect phases such as design, development, integration, migration, production support and development operations.
• Building Credibility and Client-Centric Skills: Skills and knowledge for building creditability and service orientation with client stakeholders aligned to hybrid cloud solutions including regulated cloud and platform adoption, cloud native applications, and hosted applications or equivalent enterprise solutions.

• Cloud and Automation Experience: Experience of Cloud Infrastructure and automation experience (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).

• Technical Consulting Skills: Working with a variety of technology systems, architecting Cloud Application Solutions for clients.

• Agile Practices: Agile Experience in leveraging Agile practices in building cloud applications.

• Experience in implementing software defined networking, cloud security, DevSecOps principles, and/or database migrations.

• Legacy Migrating or Transforming Experience: Experience in migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Cloud Technology Expertise: Experience working with a broad spectrum of Cloud technology solutions.
• Cloud Consulting Experience: Experience working in consulting of solutions including SaaS / IaaS / PaaS and/or Cloud.

• Cloud Software Expertise: Deep expertise in cloud software technologies including IBM Cloud Platform, VMWare, NSX-T, PowerVS, Red Hat OpenShift, high performance computing, DevSecOps, site reliability engineering, IBM Retain Insights, and AEM on IBM Cloud.