Job Description

Introduction
As an IBM Application Architect, you directly help clients transform their business and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of IBM platforms. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.

Your Role and Responsibilities
In this role, you will make an immediate impact by performing the following functions:

Responsibilities

• Participating in technical pre-sales engagements with clients to ascertain business requirements and recommend best practice solutions and technology architecture based on client needs
• Work Closely with Client\xe2\x80\x99s business & IT stakeholders, Product Owners, Architects, Team Lead or Development team to drive solution in accordance to the system design and acceptance criteria
• Drive workshops, to gather end-to-end requirements and support the creation of a development backlog
• Proactively identify and propose innovative solutions to challenging problems in order to create scalable implementations and achieve results
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
• Design and build front-end architecture / solutions - Articulate technology architecture, data architecture, integration with external solutions, presentation layer and workflows
• Ability to provide program cost estimation and monitor/revalidate the estimates at key transition points in the development lifecycle
• Accountable for ensuring that projects are adhering to delivery best practices and principles, manage technical scope and drive effective change control
• Engages in practice development initiatives and frequently runs knowledge storms
• Build employee knowledge and skills in specific areas of expertise through the development of training course and mentoring

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Education & Certifications

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree of Computer Science or equivalent
• General Architectural Certifications
• TOGAF certified

Qualifications

• Has an overall experience of 15+ years
• Has worked in a various industries and is aware of AEM, Mobile and web application frameworks
• Preferable - experience working with a banking clients for 5+ years

Technical skills

• Expertise of Content Management/Publishing based systems like AEM, Sitecore and opentext
• Expertise with Responsive web and mobile Development
• Experience of developing cross platform hybrid and native mobile apps
• Expertise in JavaScript Design Patterns
• Expertise in Gulp / Maven
• Expertise in Angular 6+ / React JS
• Expertise in TypeScript
• Expertise in CSS and SASS
• Expertise in microservices based architecture.
• Knowledge of Automated Unit Testing Front End
• Knowledge of Java Design Patterns, Postman, Swagger/Open API Standards, Restful APIs
• Experience with crafting Java application architecture.
• Knowledge of Automated Unit Testing (Junit)

Good to Have

• Knowledge of Cordova
• Knowledge of Camel framework
• Knowledge of Spring Boot
• Knowledge of Mulesoft
• Experience working in Metaverse

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
As above.


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