Solution Architect - Singapore - IBM

IBM

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Singapore

1 week ago

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Wei Jie

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Description

Introduction
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
We are IBM Consulting. We help organizations come up with practical solutions to their customer experience problems through customization across the entire
_Salesforce_ platform. We promote a company culture that thrives on collaboration, encourages creativity and empowers our employees to drive change. We're experiencing tremendous growth and are looking to add a sharp Solution Architect to our award-winning team.

Responsibilities
In this Solution Architect role, you will make an immediate impact by performing the following functions:

Participate in technical pre-sales engagements with clients to ascertain business requirements and recommend best practice solutions and technology architecture based on client needs
Work closely with Client's business & IT stakeholders, Product Owners, Architects, Team Lead or Development team to drive solution in accordance to the system design and acceptance criteria
Drive workshops to gather technical requirements and development backlog
Engage with business stakeholders to gather/analyse requirements and map them to solutions that leverage _salesforce_ functionality.
Proactively identify and propose innovative solutions to challenging problems in order to create scalable implementations and achieve results
Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose highlevel information into details, abstract up from lowlevel information to a general understanding and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
Design and build _Salesforce_ solutions articulate technology architecture, _data_ architecture, integration with external solutions, presentation layer and workflows
Provide program cost estimation and monitor/revalidate the estimates at key transition points in the development lifecycle
Accountable to ensure projects are adhering to delivery best practices and principles, manage technical scope and drive effective change control
Assess, advocate for and approve external technologies, such as _Salesforce_ AppExchange packages, for their suitability
Provide standardized status reports, track/manage financials, manage risks and issues, communicating across the leadership team, and escalating where necessary
Work collaboratively with the Technical Lead and development team in writing articulate technical specs
Engage in practice development initiatives and frequently runs knowledge storms
Build employee knowledge and skills in specific areas of expertise through the development of training course and mentoring

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Possesses Certifications: Core _Cloud_ Certification, _Salesforce_ Architect related certifications and Mulesoft Certification
Minimum 5 years of experience blend of business and technical solution experience in solutioning and leading large _Salesforce_ _cloud_ implementation programs
Experience in architecting solutions for different _Salesforce_ Core _Cloud_ (Marketing, Sales, Service, Community, etc) implementation and integration projects & proposals
Experience in _Salesforce_ strategy, roadmap design, crafting technical proposals and responding to RFIs and RFPs
Experience in developing highlevel architecture design of current and future state solution based on business requirements and value propositions
Minimum 5 years of experience in consulting work preferably for top consulting companies
Experience with _Data_ _modelling_, SQL, integration with Web Services (SOAP / _REST_ / XML)) WS* stack and WSDL are added advantage to support user testing
Knowledge of software development fundamentals such as: knowledge of _data_ structures, objectoriented programming, relational database design, and design patterns
Knowledge to Web development skills including CSS, JavaScript, HTML, XML are added advantage
An ability to articulate and clearly communicate complex problems and solutions in a simple, visual and impactful manner
Proven ability to build, manage and foster a teamorientated environment
Excellent communication (written and oral), storytelling, presentation and interpersonal skills
Excellent leadership and management skills

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

About Business Unit
IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, te