Technology Expert Labs Solution Architect

Introduction

Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you'll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best-running and growing their business.

Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, whilst ongoing development will advance your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators-always willing to help and be helped-as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Solution Architect you'll be a pivotal team member who connects the client's technical functional and implementation requirements with a solution design and proposal. You'll work closely with clients and sellers to build solutions based on the meeting the client's business outcomes and known best practices for the technology and industry. In this fast-paced role, you'll design, and construct build work breakdown structure leading to the rough order of magnitude leading to the price and statement of work. A successful Solution Architect will demonstrate a natural bias towards self-motivation and navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions that ensure world class delivery.

• End-to-End Technical Guidance: Providing expert end-to-end technical guidance to lead discovery discussions with prospective clients, assess architecture needs for projects, work with technical leads and sellers to create proposals.
• Finding the Best Architectural Outcomes: 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.
• Maintaining Solution Review Boards: Developing and contributing to the solution review boards for proposals including oversight for technology assurance, quality and risk evaluation
• Building Successful Relationships: Establishing and maintaining personal relationship at all levels - from engineers to CIOs - with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience in IT solution architecture, software development, or systems engineering.
• In-depth knowledge of technology stacks, integration methods, and architectural patterns.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies and tools.
• A provable track record of documenting and sizing services focused solutions including functional and implementation requirements that connect phases such as design, development, integration, migration, production support and development operations.
• Skills and knowledge for building credibility and services orientation with client stakeholders aligned to Automation solutions.
• Solutions Expertise: Familiar with the design, deployment and post prodcution support needed for at least one of the following implementing automation solutions including automating business processes, integrating business systems, observability, application resource management, and proactive incident management.

• Deep understanding of financial systems, regulatory environments, and industry-specific challenges (e.g., banking, payments, insurance, investment, compliance, risk management).
• Proven track record designing and delivering solutions for regulated industries, preferably within financial services.
• Experience with financial domain data models, privacy, security, governance frameworks
• Knowledge of core fintech technologies such as payments processing, digital banking, blockchain, and data analytics.
• Strong consulting skills: capability to analyze client business requirements, translate these to technology solutions, and present clear recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to lead client workshops, guide cross-functional teams, and mentor junior architects with a business-focused approach.
• Business acumen, including financial modeling and aligning technology solutions to business goals and ROI