Job Description

Introduction
In this role, you\'ll work in our IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. These centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology

As an IBM Application Architect, you directly help clients transform their business and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of IBM platforms. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As Adobe Solution Architect, you are responsible to understand client\xe2\x80\x99s business benefits and identify the gaps and focus area that need to be addressed to bring in the \xe2\x80\x9cwow-factor\xe2\x80\x9d in terms of real value add to the solution offered. You must have hands-on expertise on at least 4 implementations with Adobe Experience Manager along with a minimum of 1 real time implementations on one of the following Adobe Marketing Cloud capabilities: Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Adobe Campaigns, Adobe Audience Manager.

You will need to be comfortable working with clients to demonstrate technical, functional and non-functional expertise to generate trust and confidence within the client and help them envision the roadmap ahead, in alignment with their motto. You should be able to define how AEM and Adobe Marketing Cloud capabilities will fit into their enterprise architecture ecosystem and lead the technical development and delivery teams for AEM solutions, thus owning the client relationship.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Analyse business requirements (RFPs or Business Requirements documentation) \xe2\x80\x93 both functional and non-functional, to derive technical solutions / designs that are scalable and sustainable, using the industry best practices design principles and own the solution blueprint.
• Streamlining scope and assumptions, perform project delivery estimations involving AEM and multiple capabilities of Adobe Marketing Cloud, recommend hardware sizing basis of load information and write down Scope of Work independently, for AEM and various capabilities of the Adobe Marketing Cloud stack.
• Derive Staffing Plans, Delivery Drops, perform dependency management, etc.
• Provide end to end enterprise architecture demonstrating how they should fit into the overall solution, describing the purpose / role of each defined component.
• Responsible for creation and integration of solution using Adobe Marketing Cloud.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Overall industry experience of 12+ years
• Tag-libraries, Sling Model, Workflow, Scheduler, Observation etc.
• AEM integration with various components of the Adobe Marketing Cloud
• Personalization journeys (online and offline segmentation), eCommerce integrations, Enterprise Search integrations, etc.
• User Authorization and Authentication (OAuth, SAML, SSO, LDAP sync, etc.)

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• You love collaborative environments that use agile methodologies to encourage creative design thinking and find innovative ways to develop with cutting edge technologies
• Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with creative approach to work
• Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management

About Business Unit IBM Consulting is IBM\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99 businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.


Your Life @ IBM 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. Being an IBMer means you\xe2\x80\x99ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you\xe2\x80\x99ll 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 IBM IBM\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99re 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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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