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.
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We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Managing Consultant/Solution Architect - Data Services to lead our data strategy and solution architecture efforts. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, technical leadership, exceptional communication skills, and client-facing engagement.
Your role and responsibilities
- Data Architecture & Solution Design: Develop and maintain comprehensive data architecture plans, encompassing databases, data warehouses, big data platforms, and data lakes. Lead in designing scalable, secure, and efficient data architectures that align with broader business strategies and objectives.
- Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and leadership to a team of data engineers, data analysts, and other data professionals. Mentor and guide the team in implementing best practices for data integration, ingestion, consumption, data modeling, and leveraging modern data platforms like Azure.
- Problem Solving: Utilize your deep understanding of database systems, SQL, Python, NoSQL databases, data warehousing, ETL processes, and big data technologies to resolve complex data-related problems and challenges.
- Proposal Development & Presentation: Lead the creation of technical proposals, showcasing your advanced written and communication skills. Deliver compelling presentations articulating robust data solutions to diverse stakeholders.
- Team Leadership: Demonstrate your ability to lead ad-hoc teams and meet challenging deadlines, bringing people together to deliver high-quality results under pressure.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Demonstrate strong communication and influencing skills to engage and influence senior leadership, business units, and IT teams. Articulate complex data concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
- Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate data-related risks at an organizational level, ensuring robust data governance and quality standards are upheld.
- Business Development: Contribute to go-to-market strategies and new client proposal development, leveraging your deep data services expertise to win new contracts.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- Proven experience (minimum of 10 years) in data architecture, solution architecture, and data services.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing data integration, ingestion, and consumption strategies.
- Deep expertise in database systems, SQL, NoSQL databases, data warehousing, ETL processes, and big data technologies.
- Experience with modern data platforms such as Azure.
- Strong leadership and team management skills, demonstrated by successful team leadership roles.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively, both in writing and in presentations.
- Track record of leading and winning large-scale data services projects and engagements.
- A passion for staying up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in data services and big data technologies.
Preferred technical and professional experience
An advanced degree is preferred.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
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.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
ABOUT IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship. For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.