**Introduction** IBM Delivery Consultant work directly with our clients on key initiatives. You will have the opportunity to build an in-depth understanding of their business issues and implement organizational strategies that drive adoption of change. We are looking for experts who can build credibility and trust with our clients and provide knowledge that addresses individual and unique business needs. Your Role and Responsibilities: As a Delivery Consultant in IBM Technology Expert Labs, you will work hands-on with clients who leverage our cutting-edge software-defined network services to help them achieve their business goals. You’ll assist enterprise and telecom customers orchestrate, automate, monitor, and manage their critical networks, whether in the cloud, virtual, or on-prem. Using your deep technical and networking skills, you will be part of the Software Defined Networking Delivery team tasked with helping our clients implement, migrate, upgrade and manage their environments. **Your role and responsibilities** As a Delivery Consultant, you will work closely with IBM clients and partners to design, deliver, and optimize IBM Technology solutions that align with your clients' goals. In this role, you will apply your technical expertise to ensure world-class delivery while leveraging your consultative skills such as problem-solving issue- / hypothesis-based methodologies, communication, and service orientation skills. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs, a team that is client focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical, you'll collaborate with clients to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges.  If you are passionate about success with both your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you. To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' of this opportunity may include, but not be limited to… Solving Client Challenges Effectively: Understanding clients' main challenges and developing solutions that helps them reach true business value by working thru the phases of design, development integration, implementation, migration and product support with a sense of urgency . Agile Planning and Execution: Creating and executing agile plans where you are responsible for installing and provisioning assets, testing, migrating to production, and day-two operations. Technical Solution Workshops: Conducting and participating in technical solution workshops. Building Effective Relationships: Developing successful relationships at all levels —from engineers to CxOs—with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions. Self-Motivated Problem Solver: Demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation, curiosity, initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions. Collaboration and Communication: Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team. **Required technical and professional expertise** Solution Design * As a delivery consultant you will work closely with stakeholders to design, deliver, and optimize networking solutions leveraging IBM Software Defined Networking technology that align to your clients’ goals * You will apply your technical expertise to ensure world class delivery while leveraging your consultative skills - such as problem solving, and issue- or hypothesis-based methodologies * All the while being focused on bringing customer value that connects with their strategic objectives. Solution Build * Understanding clients’ main challenges, and becoming a trusted technical expert for their migration, deployment, and adoption of IBM technologies * You will navigate across venues to resolve issues, propose mitigation strategies using your technical expertise and use a consultative style to quickly build credibility as a trusted advisor * All while creating and executing plans including install and provision assets, testing, migration to production and then the resulting day two operations capabilities. Solution Implementation * Tailor & configure software to meet client requirements. * Develop & customize applications * Grow business value through ongoing collaboration and deep expertise Required Professional & Technical Expertise * 5- 12 years of experience * Prior experience delivering Commercial off-the-shelf solutions like IBM SevOne, SolarWinds, DataDog, Zabbix, ThousandEyes, ManageEngine etc. * Hands-On experience on building application based on the Microservices & API -architecture * Knowledge of networking technologies, including SDN/NFV, SDWAN. * Experience with full software development lifecycle (from analysis through development, test, delivery, in-service, disposal) * Extensive development experience on at least one of GoLang, ReactJS, Java, PHP, Python * Hands On experience on CI-CD Pipeline Build and Management * Strong Network Management and OSS Integration experience * Experience in implementing and managing Cloud Computing and orchestration tools, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes/OpenShift * Telecom Carrier or Large Enterprise customers experience * Good understanding of network cloud infrastructure environment * Hands on Experience in Installing, administering and integrating network management systems * Good Handson experience with databases, programming, API’s and scripting * Excellent written & verbal communication skills * Ability to clearly communicate technical details to both experts and novices **Preferred technical and professional experience** NA