Senior Solutions Architecture Specialist

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for a technical leader who is highly collaborative, strategic, and has a deep backend focus. This position is ideal for a highly skilled engineer who can own complex initiatives, mentor others, and influence technical direction. You can expect to:

• Design, prototype and implement features and tools while ensuring stability and usability.
• Collaborate closely with Product Design and Product Management partners, as well as engineers on your team and others.
• Act as a subject matter expert on quality development with an emphasis on Golang development.
• Lead and execute large-scale projects, ensuring the reliable delivery of key features from design through full implementation and troubleshooting.
• Drive end-to-end project lifecycle, including architecture design, implementation, and issue resolution, with a focus on quality and efficiency.
• Evaluate project tradeoffs and propose solutions, proactively removing blockers and keeping stakeholders informed on progress, issues, and milestones.
• Collaborate with internal teams, customers, and external stakeholders to design solutions that align with requirements and customer needs.
• Advocate for strategic technical roadmap initiatives that enhance the system's overall effectiveness across teams and the organization.
• Debug and resolve complex issues to improve the quality and stability of products or solutions.
• Review and assess code for quality, design patterns, and optimization opportunities, ensuring best practices are followed.
• Mentor and guide software engineers, sharing technical knowledge and promoting best practices in development processes.
• Facilitate collaborative team activities, such as code pairing and group troubleshooting, to foster a productive and cohesive team environment.
• Support reliable production environments, including participating in an on-call rotation.
• Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment.
• 1/3 development to deployment.
• Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations/data requires an evaluation of intangibles.
• Requires conceptual thinking to understand advanced issues and implications.
• Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Accountable for results, which may impact the entire function.

• You have professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang.
• You have experience working with distributed systems, particularly on a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP, with a focus on scalability, resilience and security.
• Emerging ability to direct work and influence others, with a strategic approach to problem-solving and decision-making in a collaborative environment.
• Demonstrated business acumen and customer focus, with a readiness for change and adaptability in dynamic situations.
• Cloud-native mindset and solid understanding of DevOps principles in a cloud environment.
• Familiarity with cloud monitoring tools to implement robust observability practices that prioritize metrics, logging and tracing for high reliability and performance.
• Intentional focus on stakeholder management and effective communication, fostering trust and relationship-building across diverse teams.
• Integrated skills in critical thinking and data-driven analysis, promoting a growth mindset and continuous improvement to support high-quality outcomes.

• You have experience using HashiCorp products (Terraform, Packer, Waypoint, Nomad, Vault, Boundary , Consul).
• You have prior experience working in cloud platform engineering teams