Introduction

Joining the IBM 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, while advancing 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 an IBM MREF (Tririga) Architect you are responsible for defining, designing, and governing the end-to-end architecture of MREF solutions across Real Estate, Facilities, Capital Projects, Lease Administration, and Space Management domains.

This role acts as the technical authority for MREF implementations, upgrades, integrations, and optimizations—ensuring scalability, performance, security, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

The architect works closely with business stakeholders, functional consultants, integration teams, and delivery teams to translate business needs into robust, future-ready MREF solutions.

As an MREF Architect, you would be responsible for

Architecture & Solution Design

Own end-to-end MREF solution architecture across modules like:
Real Estate & Lease Administration
Space Management
Facilities & Maintenance
Capital Projects
Environmental / Sustainability (where applicable)
Design scalable application, data, and integration architecture for MREF implementations.
Define customization vs configuration strategy to ensure upgrade-safe solutions.
Lead architecture decisions for:
Migrations
Assessment
Health checks
Workflow design
Business objects (BOs)
Forms, queries, reports, and KPIs
UX framework and navigation

Integration & Technical Leadership

Architect integrations between MREF and enterprise systems such as:
ERP systems
HR systems
Financials & Procurement
GIS, BMS, IoT platforms
Document Management systems
Guide data migration strategies from legacy IWMS / CAFM systems.

Governance & Best Practices

Establish MREF architecture standards, patterns, and guidelines
Review and approve technical designs and configurations created by delivery teams.
Ensure adherence to:
Performance and scalability best practices
Security and access control models
Upgrade and cloud-readiness standards

Delivery & Stakeholder Engagement

Act as technical SPOC for customers, market teams, program leadership, and product teams
Translate business requirements into architecture and design artifacts.
Provide technical leadership during:
Project planning and estimation
Sprint reviews
UAT and go-live readiness
Mentor MREF developers and functional consultants.

Cloud, Upgrade & Modernization

Lead architecture for:
Migrations
Assessments, Health Checks
MREF upgrades and platform modernization
Support adoption of:
Cloud-native integration patterns
Automation and DevOps practices
Ensure alignment with MREF product roadmap.

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

Core MREF Expertise

12+ years of experience in IBM MREF implementations.
Strong hands-on expertise in:
Business Objects, Forms, Workflows
Queries, Reports, KPIs
UX Framework
Deep understanding of MREF data model and security framework.

Architecture & Integration

Proven experience as a Solution / Technical Architect on large MREF/Tririga programs.
Strong integration experience
Experience with data migration, performance tuning, and system sizing.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Strong architecture and problem-solving mindset
Stakeholder communication and technical leadership
Ability to balance business needs with platform constraints
Mentorship and governance orientation

MREF Delivery Consultant