z Solutions Architect

Introduction
Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you’ll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products you’ll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business.

Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact whilst ongoing development will advance your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.

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.

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 opportunity may include but not be limited to…

• 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 credibility and services orientation with client stakeholders aligned to infrastructure solutions.
• Infrastructure Solution Expertise: Familiar with the design deployment and optimization of infrastructure solutions for IBM zSystems LinuxONE and associated operating system and virtualization software including z/OS or Linux.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Infrastructure Technology Expertise: Experience working with a broad spectrum of infrastructure technology solution.
• Cloud Consulting Experience: Experience working in consulting of solutions including SaaS / IaaS / PaaS and/or Cloud.
• Technical Expertise in Mainframe System Software: Technical expertise in z/OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE operating systems and associated mainframe system software.
• Technical Expertise in Various Domains: Deep technical expertise in at least one systems software and technical domain such as cyber resiliency security encryption enterprise containers automation application modernization networking and performance.