Your Role and Responsibilities As an Infrastructure 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 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 a work breakdown structure leading to the rough order of magnitude, 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.
If you are passionate about success with both your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you. A 'day-in-the-life' of this opportunity may include, but not be limited to:
End-to-End Technical Guidance: Providing expert end-to-end technical guidance to lead discovery discussions with prospective clients, assess architecture needs for projects, and 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 with 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 relationships at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – with experience navigating challenging debates to reach healthy resolutions.Required Technical and Professional Expertise Documenting and sizing services: 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.
Building credibility and client-centric skills: Skills and knowledge for building credibility and services orientation with client stakeholders aligned to Infrastructure (Storage, IBM Power, IBM Z, Cloud).
Storage technology skills: Familiar with the design, deployment, and optimization of technologies including Storage, IBM Power, IBM Z, and Cloud, for Data and AI, hybrid cloud, and data resiliency solutions with IBM technologies.
Required Education Bachelor's Degree
Preferred Education Master's Degree
Country/Region Spain
State / Province Madrid
City / Township / Village Madrid
IBM Business Group Software
Primary job category Architect
Employment Type Full-Time
Travel Required Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)
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