**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 for Modernized IT Solutions: Analyze and translate IT requirements using modernization frameworks into components of a modernized solution. * Agile Development and Testing in Cloud Environments: Develop and test applications in cloud environments and be part of Delivery/Engagement teams. * Optimization and Enhancement of Modernization Assets: Reuse and enhance Digital modernization assets, methods, and collateral. * Collaborative Design and Deployment of Cloud Infrastructure: Collaborate in the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure solutions and services for our customer's needs. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Minimum 3-5 years of cloud technology implementation of AWS/Azure * Minimum of 2 years of experience building and releasing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) in controlled environment * Must have knowledge of containerization technologies for such deployment in either AWS/Azure * Experience in setup, configuration, and deployment of AWS Cloud native services such as AWS Lambda * Experience in setup and configuration of application and database health and performance using cloud native services such as Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray. Experience in Windows/Linux administration **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Excellent communication & interpersonal skills. * Demonstrated client interaction and excellent communication skills; both (written and verbal). * Amenable to work on a client dictated schedule (Day, Mid and Night) and Location.