Senior Product Architect – IBM Automation Portfolio

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, let’s talk.

The IBM IT Automation team is looking for a Senior Product Architect –to join the IBM Concert product team.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Write product requirements for new integrations, enhance existing integrations, and identify ecosystem products to interact with
• Enable tech sales and support teams by building specialized demos, assisting with RFIs, fielding scanner-specific questions
• Engage prospects, customers, and internal stakeholders for discovery sessions and roadmap reviews
• Conduct market research and analysis to identify market trends
• Provide regular updates to the leadership team on product development progress and market signals
• Provide expert inputs/insights: On product architecture, design decisions, and technology choices. Effectively collaborate with the stakeholders like Product/Offering Management, Sales and Mktg, Support.
• Contribute to the core development/delivery: Be thorough with the technology domain and associated programming languages/frameworks/patterns and tool. Own coding/testing of some of the key/complex modules/components
• Serve as an end-to-end SME: Demonstrates skills/expertise across all functional/non-functional aspects. Gain insights into customer adoption of product capabilities and rise above the silos of being client side, server side or module specific knowledge.
• Be the trusted advisor to clients/customers: Stay at the forefront in understanding customer’s pain points both tactical and strategic. And work proactively to provide solutions/resolutions.
• Be the agent of change/innovation: Challenge the status quo and provide though leadership and operational drive.
• Drive eminence and respect: Be an active evangelist and thought leader inside and outside the organization.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 12+ years of relevant experience of working on Enterprise Class Products, preferably from Automation domain.
• Expertise in Go/Python application development. Exposure to other programming languages, development / test environments, and related diagnostic tools.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills to analyse and resolve complex technical issues.
• Good Expertise in building software/solutions that conforms to modern application architecture and practices.
• Expertise in Dockers/Kubernetes/Microservices/REST APIs/PostgreSQL
• Development experience in Cloud-native applications
• Mastery of IBM Cloud, AWS Cloud Platforms.
• Solid understanding of software architecture patterns, design principles and best practices.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
A part from technical skills, some of the foremost requirements are to have someone :

• who is from Automation & Cloud background.
• who is open to learn and take inputs constructively.
• who embraces challenges and doesn’t believe in finding faults with team, peers or uplines. It’s Ok to err on skills but one need to be open minded towards improvement.
• who can balance people, product and process goals. Being open minded is the key to success for this role.