Blockchain Garage – Technical Solution Architect
Amsterdam (Montgomery) Bachelor's Degree Architecture / Town planning
Job description
IBM Blockchain, is driving digital transformation across businesses! This is an opportunity to join the Blockchain Labs team, a growing services team, and make a big impact in both IBM and the IT industry!
As a Solution Architect you will be a solution driven, results focused, and a structured/systematic problem solver. You will be well versed in architecture best practices, multiple development methodologies and tools. You will also help build service offerings, assets, collateral for reuse to improve efficiencies in building and delivery solution architectures. Will frequently deal with newer technologies, methods, and solution paradigms.
Key Responsibilities: You will help develop innovative solutions with clients in a variety of industries, such as Financial Services, Public Sector, Retail, and Transportation. This role will involve significant client interactions (remote and client facing) while working in small multidisciplinary teams of developers, architects, designers, and industry experts that collaborate together in short sprints and iterative cycles. You will also deliver impactful client demos of the solution for playbacks and client meetings to high level executives. You will help drive alignment around assumptions, risks and issues, and key decisions the client will be accountable for. You will also participate in IBM Cloud Garage for Blockchain design workshops with clients.
The role requires effective communications to the client and across internal teams, generating high quality technical artifacts and documentation to support architecture and solution designs, with the ability to articulate and convey concepts and details to all levels of recipients. The role must have the ability to work easily with diverse and driven teams and to work in a matrix management model. Successful candidates will have excellent communication and articulation skills.
Auto req ID
206007BR
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Role ( Job Role )
Software Architect
State / Province
NEW YORK
Primary job category
Software Development & Support
Company
(0147) International Business Machines Corporation
Contract type
Regular
Employment Type
Full-Time
ERBP
Yes
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
No
Travel Required
Up to 50% or 3 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)
IBM Business Group
Industry Plat
Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree
City / Township / Village
NEW YORK
EO Statement
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
· At least 10 years of overall professional experience, demonstrating progressive leadership of projects. Strong communication skills is a must.
· At least 5 years prior programming experience. Node.js and Go experience highly desirable. C or Java also desirable.
· At least 2 years of experience in external client-facing projects.
· At least 1 year of experience with Ubuntu, Docker, and using a vagrant environment. Must be comfortable using Github
Country/Region
United States
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
· At least 2 years of experience with Node.js. Experience with UI frameworks like Express framework a plus.
· Experience using IBM Blockchain, Hyperledger, or Ethereum highly desirable, but not required.
· Knowledge of IBM Cloud portfolio preferred due to breadth of customer environments this technology brings.
· At least 2 years of experience using the IBM Cloud platform desirable, but not required.
· Experience of working with design thinking techniques in iterative sprints is useful.
Secondary Job Category
Other Software Development & Support
Eligibility Requirements
· Visa sponsorship will not be provided
Position Type
Professional
Early Professional Track
Not Applicable - Professional Hire