Application Architect for Cloud Applications

As an Application Architect for Cloud Applications, you will design web technology in cloud applications that may run on multiple platforms and be composed of multiple software packages. You will be responsible for ensuring the performance, availability, and scalability of these applications.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

Design Cloud Applications: Design web technology in cloud applications, considering multiple platforms and software packages to ensure seamless functionality.

Ensure Performance and Scalability: Develop and implement strategies to maintain high performance, availability, and scalability of cloud applications, meeting business requirements.

Maintain Functional Interface: Oversee the functional interface to the application infrastructure, ensuring smooth integration and operation.

Optimize Application Infrastructure: Drive optimization efforts to improve application infrastructure, leveraging expertise in cloud applications to deliver high-quality solutions.

Develop Scalable Solutions: Establish scalable solutions that meet business needs, applying deep expertise in cloud application architecture to drive innovation.

This role can be performed from anywhere in the US.

Bachelor’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Cloud Application Design Expertise: Deep expertise in designing web technology in cloud applications that run on multiple platforms and are composed of multiple software packages.

Performance and Scalability Optimization: Experience with developing and implementing strategies to ensure high performance, availability, and scalability of cloud applications.

Application Infrastructure Integration: Experience in maintaining the functional interface to the application infrastructure, ensuring smooth integration and operation.

Cloud Application Architecture: Deep expertise in cloud application architecture, with the ability to establish scalable solutions that meet business needs.

Multi-Platform Development: Experience with designing cloud applications that can seamlessly function across multiple platforms.

Media & Entertainment Technology

• Strong understanding of media supply chain technologies
• Experience with video transcoding workflows
• Knowledge of live capture and broadcast systems

Preferred technical and professional experience

Multi-Cloud Platform Expertise: Deep expertise in designing cloud applications that can seamlessly function across multiple cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Advanced Scalability Solutions: Experience with developing and implementing advanced scalability solutions for cloud applications, ensuring high performance and availability in complex systems., 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?, IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

• Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences., 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., 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., 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.

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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.

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