**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 Architect in IBM Consulting, you'll serve as a leader in defining 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 transform detailed solutions (architectures) for the client. Your primary responsibilities include: Strategic Analysis and Modernized Solution Design: Analyze and translate IT requirements using modernization frameworks into components of a modernized solution. Agile Development and Cloud Application Testing: Develop and test applications in cloud environments and be part of Delivery/Engagement teams. Optimize Digital Modernization Assets and Methods: Reuse and enhance Digital modernization assets, methods, and collateral. Innovative Cloud Infrastructure Solutions and Collaboration: Collaborate in the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure solutions and services for our customer's needs. **Required technical and professional expertise** > 5 plus years of experience as a solution architect > Experience in Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, NodeJS, REST API, API development, Microservices, Openshift, Kubernetes. Cloud - AWS or Azure, SQL and NoSQL database design > Significant experience in Retail Banking > Well versed with payments, wealth management, acquisitions, channel integration spaces > Experience architecting end to end solution approach for Open banking and Digital experience platforms > Experience with operational management of solutions delivered to production > Knowledge of infrastructure setup involved in realization of a solution > Good experience with addressing security across layers (OAuth2/3, encryption, SSL) **Preferred technical and professional experience** * IBM certification in IT architecture, software development, or a related field * Experience with cloud infrastructure solutions and services * Strong understanding of cloud security and compliance * Experience with DevOps and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines * Strong understanding of AI and machine learning technologies * Experience with IBM Watson and other AI-powered solutions * Strong understanding of data analytics and data science * Experience with data visualization tools and techniques