**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience. **Your role and responsibilities** As an Application Architect - AWS Cloud - in IBM Consulting, you’ll serve as a leader in defining innovative solutions for clients. You’ll be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation. You’ll collaborate with client stakeholders and internal partners to understand the business problem and requirements, constraints of the system and concerns of the various stakeholders to systematically build and transform detailed solutions (architectures) for the client. This will be a Sell and Deliver role where you will own the cloud engagement end to end from the Pre Sales stage to Delivery and position yourself as the owner of the Hybrid Cloud architecture within your team serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders. What you’ll do: * Create a scalable modular architecture in AWS * Own Technical Design for Cloud Migration and Modernization engagements on AWS * Create cloud migration strategies and define delivery architecture and migration plans * Analyze Complex application landscapes, anticipate potential problems and future trends, assess opportunities and potential solutions with associated impacts, and risks. * Architect, implement and deploy DevOps based, end to end application * Application Solution design and implementation using AWS PaaS and SaaS offerings. * Design and Build using AWS native services * Develop reference architectures, patterns, and guidelines to ensure consistency and efficiency across cloud-based applications. * Assess client environments provide advisory and implementation of recommendations based on best practices * Serve as a subject matter expert in cloud technologies, staying up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies. * Provide thought leadership and mentorship to technical teams, promoting best practices in cloud architecture and design. * Demonstrate leadership by leading multi-functional teams for a bid, owning architectural point of view and influence people and organization including executives, when issues are complex/difficult and require considerable diplomacy. * You will be accountable for architecture of Projects or Programs Involving multi- Functional, Country-Wide Teams. * Responsible For Overall Program Success. Success measures are Customer Satisfaction, Personal and Team Utilization and Business Unit Targets of Signings, Revenue and Gross Profit * For Pre-sales activity you will be accountable for solutioning and proposal building: Lead the team and deliver the winning proposal to customer following IBM Internal solutioning and approval processes. How we’ll help you grow: You’ll have access to all the technical and management training courses you need to become the expert you want to be You’ll learn directly from expert developers in the field; our team leads love to mentor You have the opportunity to work in many different areas to figure out what really excites you, **Required technical and professional expertise** * Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. * Minimum 15+ years of experience in Technology Architecture domain * 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture and design, with a focus on enterprise-level solutions. * Proven hands on expertise in AWS cloud platform. * Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, microservices, APIs, containers, Kubernetes and serverless computing. * Experience in DevSecOps practices and tools. * Demonstrated experience in creating and maintaining cloud strategies and architectural standards. * Experience of architecting medium & large complex systems in the India market- with a value greater than USD 2 Million. * Must have expertise in working with at least 1 industry - financial services, manufacturing, distribution and consumer goods. * Should have had earlier career Experience in design, development and architecture of Java/JEE/.NET/Integration based systems * Should have experience in Infrastructure architecture, Sizing, estimation, provisioning, and automation of compute/storage/network * Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. * AWS Architect certification * India Market experience is mandatory **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Experience in Agile ways of working * Creative problem-solving skills * Excellent written and oral communication skills