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 IBM zTPS (Transaction Processing Platform) Solution Architect, you will be responsible for defining and producing world-class, client-focused IBM Z modernization and management solutions. These solutions will be implemented by our IBM Technology Experts Labs delivery consultants, to the high standards defined by yourself. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs, Solution Architect team, you will be client-focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges.
To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' in this role may include, but not be limited to…
- Working closely with IBM Z clients to understand their main challenges and develop solutions to help them transform mission-critical IBM Z applications for hybrid cloud environments with stability, security, and agility.
- Create IBM zTPS solutions that use robust toolsets to develop and maintain applications; visualize applications, data, and jobs; develop and test for cloud-native app development and modernization in a flexible consumption model.
- Working together with IBM Z and Expert Labs sales team to respond to client opportunities with accurate and deliverable proposals.
- Working collaboratively with IBM Z Ecosystem to support customers' transformation initiatives.
- Contributing to the development of assets, methodologies, and service offerings that will help in making the migration services scalable and repeatable.
- Working closely with our WW Technology Expert Labs delivery teams to ensure seamless transition from solutioning phase all the way through to implementation.
- Demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation, curiosity, and initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team.
- Understanding clients' main challenges and developing solutions that help them reach true business value by working through the phases of discovery, design, development integration, implementation, migration, and product support with a sense of urgency.
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 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 to 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 relationships at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.
Required Education:
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred Education:
Master's Degree
Required Technical and Professional Expertise:
- Deep expertise in solutioning, deploying and optimizing software solutions for IBM Z, LinuxONE and associated operating systems and virtualization software.
- Deep expertise in leading zTPS services engagements.
- Deep expertise in IBM zTPS solutions, including integrations between Z DevOps products and open source or third-party offerings, Z Security, Z IT operations management, etc.
- Ability to work independently and take accountability.
- Excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills that are engaging, compelling and influential.
- 10+ years of experience with IBM Z.
- 10+ years of solution consulting or relevant industry experience.
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience:
- Deep expertise in developing and maintaining long-term relationships with Customers through managing and interpreting their requirements and leading services engagements to successful outcomes.
- Experience with the following products will be highly regarded: Developer for z/OS (IDz), Enterprise Edition (IDzEE), Application Delivery Foundation for z/OS (ADFz), Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI), IBM Z Development and Test (ZD&T), IBM Virtual Dev and Test for z/OS (ZVDT), IBM WatsonX Code Assistance for Z (WCA4Z), IBM WatsonX Assistance for Z (WXA4Z), IBM Z Intellia Vision for z/OS and IBM Z Digital Integration Hub (zDIH).
In addition to the above experience, the ideal candidate will have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail. A passion for making a difference in their profession and the environment.
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, live 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 every day, 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 ongoing 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 every day 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.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
Job Title
Solution Architect - Transaction Processing Platform
Job ID
22030
City / Township / Village
London
State / Province
London
Country
United Kingdom
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Area of work
Infrastructure & Technology
Employment type
Regular
Position type
Professional
Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)
Company
(8660) IBM United Kingdom Limited
Shift
General (daytime)
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