COMPLETE Application Architect-Banking

Introduction
As an IBM Application Architect, you directly help clients transform their business  and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of IBM platforms.  You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Application Architects participate in analyzing the clients’ legacy core banking applications and surrounding systems, defining target application architectures including the new cloud-native core banking systems, and modernization strategies and execution plans for our clients. You will advise your clients to identify the most effective modernization approach and help modernize their legacy applications or build a completely new application stack using modern cloud native architectures with container platforms and cloud services.

In this role, you will:

• Provide end-to-end technical guidance and expertise; creatively applying cloud infrastructure and platform services to help solve business problems; and communicating these approaches to different business audiences in designated industries
• Represent and facilitate architecture in discovery discussions with prospective clients, assess architecture needs for projects, work with Development leads and Designers to provide proposals
• Upon commencement of engagements, co-lead client workshops with Designers; influencing participants from all levels of our clients' organization to find the best outcomes and arrive at the architecture that will support the engagement
• Work with clients and IBM teams to identify business problems and provide innovative solutions to them while evangelizing and accelerating the adoption of current and future IBM Cloud services and technologies
• Use exceptional communication skills and with input from product management, development, and architecture thought leaders, work to deliver high quality end-to-end Solutions at Scale in response to the identified business requirements from our clients
• Explore and develop new technical skills and industry practices, while absorbing professional knowledge quickly and using demonstrated interpersonal skills to be an effective ambassador for IBM Cloud

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proven skills on Microservices, Containerized, Distributed, Cloud native architecture of 3+years
• 3+year of experience in application architecture design and system integration
• Must have 5+year of JAVA Programming capability with Red Hat OCP experience is a plus
• Be able to work independently as well as convert business requirements to technical solution design
• Be able to write professional technical document
• Relevant certification is a plus

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience creating highly available, large-scale enterprise applications.
• Experience with microservices developing framework, such as: Spring Cloud or Dubbo,..etc.
• Experience with configuration management and automation technologies (e.g. Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Chef or Ansible)
• Experience in core banking system implementation and play a leading role in the project(Nice to have)
• Working level in English speaking