Introduction
As a Solution Architect in IBM Technology Expert Labs, you will work directly with customers who leverage our cutting-edge software-defined network services to help them achieve their business goals. You will be a pivotal team member who connects the client's technical functional, non-functional and implementation requirements with a solution design and proposal. You’ll work with enterprise and telecom customers pre-sale, helping them design, orchestrate, automate, manage, and monitor their critical software-defined networks, whether in the cloud, virtual, or on-prem. With your excellent networking knowledge and experience across multiple technologies, you will work closely with clients, sellers and the Delivery team to build solutions based on meeting the client's business outcomes and known best practices for the technology and industry.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Solution Design
- Providing expert end-to-end technical guidance within the networking domain to lead discovery discussions with prospective Software Defined Networking clients, assess architecture needs for projects, work with technical leads and Sellers to create proposals.
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Assume overall technical responsibility for the success of proposed solution design, solution content, solution construction, and solution integration.
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Propose high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.
Solution Proposal
- Leading client workshops, influencing client stakeholders at all levels to find the best architectural outcomes that align to business and technology strategies and initiatives into actionable roadmaps with clear direction on execution to ensure business value and ROI.
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Design and construct work breakdown structure leading to the estimation of efforts and resources needed to enable pricing.
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Produce the statement of work of the solution.
Project Success
- Establishing personal relationship at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions during the plan and proposal process.
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Responsible for ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction through comprehensive knowledge of solutions offerings, strategies and direction as it relates to the client's business, infrastructure and industry.
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Through the use of pre-sales methodologies, apply in-depth knowledge of leading-edge technology solutions with industry and business skills to influence clients to adopt IBM solutions.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
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Extensive experience with multi-vendor networking products including switches, routers, wireless, firewall
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Experience in designing, implementing, and managing 5G core networks
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Experience with Cloud computing, networking and orchestration tools, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes/OpenShift
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Knowledge of networking technologies, including NG-RAN/O-RAN
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Experience with software defined networking technologies including Cisco ACI, SD-WAN, VMware NSX
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Familiarity with Cloud Computing paradigms and orchestration tools, e.g. IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes/OpenShift
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Extensive solution design and architecture experience, including capturing requirements in a customer-facing capacity
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Prior experience designing Commercial off-the-shelf solutions to meet those requirements
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Strong network management and OSS Integration experience
- Telecom carrier or large enterprise customer experience
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Must have excellent communication, documentation, and customer facing skills
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Skilled with Solution Architecture Methodology, Process and Tooling
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Ability to develop technical briefs and detailed solution designs
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Ability to convey technical concepts to a diverse audience
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Technical familiarity with databases, programming, API’s and scripting
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Experience with network security solutions is a bonus
About Business Unit
IBM’s Cloud and Cognitive software business is committed to bringing the power of IBM’s Cloud and Watson/AI technologies to life for our clients and ecosystem partners around the world. IBM provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments—with complete software solutions for business and IT operations, development, data science, security, and management. Our experts and software capabilities help organizations develop applications once and deploy them anywhere, integrate security across the breadth of their IT estate, and automate operations with management visibility. With IBM, you also have access to new skills and methods, governance and management approaches, and a deep ecosystem of industry experts and partners.
Your Life @ IBM
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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
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About IBM
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Location Statement
IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.
Being You @ IBM
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.