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IBM [IBM Japan] Application Architect / Project Manager in Tokyo, Japan

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.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As an Architect in IBM Consulting, you'll serve as a leader in defining solutions for clients. You'll be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation.

You'll collaborate with client stakeholders and internal partners to understand the business problem and requirements, constraints of the system and concerns of the various stakeholders to systematically transform detailed solutions (architectures) for the client.

[Your primary responsibilities include]

  • We propose the best solution for our customers by utilizing OCP (OpenShift Container Platform) / container technology and middleware including open source in the cloud (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud) or on-premises environment.

  • Define requirements, design, build, and migrate. We provide the best solution for our clients by using OCP (OpenShift Container Platform)/container technology and middleware including open source.

  • We design and build an optimal CI/CD pipeline to support build-release operations of container applications for agile and incremental application development and operations.

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • The candidate must be an IT architect/IT specialist/systems engineer with at least 5 years of experience in application development, and have experience in implementing a series of processes from upstream design (system design) to construction and testing.

  • One of the experiences must be in cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP/IBM Cloud) or container technology development.

  • Experience in designing and developing full stack applications from UI/front-end to back-end, utilizing various OSS and middleware (UI framework/library, application server, DB, inter-system integration, etc.).

  • Experience in designing, building, and operating CI/CD pipelines using various OSS or SaaS/PaaS, and automating the build and release of applications.

  • Java/JavaScript/.Net, and related development technologies, environments, and tools.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Conduct proposal activities such as designing solutions in response to customer RFIs/RFPs.

  • Project leadership experience in infrastructure or application development projects

  • Experience with OSS CI/CD tools (Jenkins/Tekton/Argo CD, etc.) for container development

  • Experience in cloud-native development projects that make extensive use of SaaS/PaaS in the cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP/IBM Cloud)

  • Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP/IBM Cloud) certification

  • Experience in system operations (SRE)

  • TOEIC score of 730 or equivalent; ability to read English e-mails and documents. Higher English proficiency will increase opportunities for activities.

About Business UnitIBM 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 @ IBMIn 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 IBMIBM'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.

Location StatementFor additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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