Introduction

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.

Your Role And Responsibilities

As an Application Architect specializing in AWS Cloud Migration, you will lead the design and delivery of cloud migration solutions for multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, and ICP. You will guide the development of migration strategies, tools, and network requirements for hybrid cloud platforms.

Your Primary Responsibilities Will Include

Lead Migration Architecture Design: Develop and implement migration architecture solutions for multi-cloud environments, ensuring seamless integration with AWS and other cloud platforms.
Design Migration Strategy: Collaborate with the team to create effective migration strategies, selecting the right tools and methods for rehosting, refactoring, rearchitecting, replatforming, and containerization.
Adopt Migration Methodology: Lead the adoption of migration methodologies, tailoring approaches to client environments and industries, and providing expert guidance on method adoption workshops.
Provide Technical Expertise: Offer significant contributions to Migration Project Managers on technical elements, including WBS, estimation, migration risk, dependencies, and Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
Map Client Requirements: Utilize deep knowledge of AWS platform and service catalog to map client platform and application deployment requirements into AWS-specific services and configurations.

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

Cloud Migration Solution Design: Experience with designing and delivering cloud migration solutions for multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, and ICP, with a focus on hybrid cloud platforms.
Migration Strategy Development: Experience in developing effective migration strategies, including selecting the right tools and methods for rehosting, refactoring, rearchitecting, replatforming, and containerization.
Migration Methodology Adoption: Experience leading the adoption of migration methodologies, tailoring approaches to client environments and industries, and providing expert guidance on method adoption workshops.
Technical Expertise in Migration: Experience providing significant contributions to Migration Project Managers on technical elements, including WBS, estimation, migration risk, dependencies, and Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
AWS Platform Knowledge: Deep knowledge of AWS platform and service catalog, with the ability to map client platform and application deployment requirements into AWS-specific services and configurations.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Deep Knowledge of Azure: Experience with Azure platform and service catalog, with the ability to map client platform and application deployment requirements into Azure-specific services and configurations.
Familiarity with ICP: Exposure to ICP platform and service catalog, with understanding of how to integrate ICP with other cloud platforms.
Containerization Expertise: Experience with containerization methods and tools, including selecting the right approach for rehosting, refactoring, rearchitecting, replatforming, and containerization.

Application Architect-AWS Cloud Migration