IBM Technical Architect Azure Platform 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

665529258

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
As an Architect in IBM Consulting, you’ll serve as a leader in defining solutions for clients. You’ll be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation.
You’ll collaborate with client stakeholders and internal partners to understand the business problem and requirements, constraints of the system and concerns of the various stakeholders to systematically transform detailed solutions (architectures) for the client.
Your primary responsibilities include:

• Consult with clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.
• Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best practice as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
• Good understanding of cloud design principles, sizing, multi-zone/cluster setup, resiliency and DR design. Solution Architect or similar certifications from Azure is must.
• Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead discussions with client technical experts, application team & Vendors to drive collaboration, design thinking model towards reaching the desired objective.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in participating in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code, and other artifacts and use your experience in Multicloud to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
• Provide leadership to project teams and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
• Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
• Sound knowledge of SRE principles and ability to address performance issues through design or coding is must. Implement observability, develop, and support pipeline model to deploy key features, changes.
• Security, Risk and Compliance – Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance, and related areas.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 10 – 15 years of experience with at least 5+ years of hands-on experience in Azure Cloud Computing and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
• Experience in Azure Databricks is preferred. Must have Azure DevOps experience and expertise in all Azure services and Database and Operating Systems experience and good experience in Automation skills like Terraform Ansible etc.
• Should work in IBM Cloud project as and when needed.