Cloud and Cognitive Expert Labs Application Architect

n cloud native architectures with container platforms.

In this role, you will:

• Provide end-to-end technical guidance and expertise; creatively applying integration and automation solution to help solve business problems; and communicating these approaches to different business audiences in designated industries.

• Ability to understand business problems, articulate a corresponding solution based on automation solution, build a value proposition, and establish a compelling reason to act.

• Represent and facilitate architecture in discovery discussions with prospective clients, assess architecture needs for projects, and provide proposals.

• Upon commencement of engagements, co-lead client workshops with Designers; influencing participants from all levels of our clients' organization to find the best outcomes and arrive at the architecture that will support the engagement.

• Work with clients to identify business problems and provide innovative solutions to them while evangelizing and accelerating the adoption of current and future integration and automation technologies.

• Explore and develop new technical skills and industry practices, while absorbing professional knowledge quickly and using demonstrated interpersonal skills.

• Develop re-usable industry specific assets and demonstrations.

• Lead overall architecture design and have the ability do hands-on deliver service project.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3+ years Solution Architect experience on system/application integration or automation solution

• 5+ years programming experience on Java, SQL, C/C++, Python, etc.

• Familiar with Linux tools and shell scripting.

• Familiar with API technology: Web Services, RESTful, JSON or automation technology such as BPM, Content Management, Process Mining, RPA, Decision Management, etc.

• The ability to effectively showcase and demonstrate solutions/technologies in a customer facing scenario.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Familiar with IBM product: WAS, MQ, APIC, ACE, BPM, ODM, RPA
• Familiar with container environment (OCP or K8s), and CI/CD experience
  • K8s/OCP architecture and key components
  • Understanding of K8s operator, OCP and K8S CLI
  • Administration and troubleshooting
• Experience on Microservice consultant
• Knowledge of Kibana programming model to build dashboards.
• Knowledge of Working with process and task mining programming models.
• Knowledge of Bot Management