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  • Posted: Jan 27, 2021
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    At IBM Southern and Central Africa, we strive to lead in the creation, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices and microelectronics. And our worldwide network of IBM solutions and services professionals translates these advanced technologie...
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    GBS COGNITIVE ARCHITECT

    We’re looking for experienced data professionals who have proven expertise in developing innovative data centric architectural solutions using cognitive technologies serviced through a Hybrid Cloud model (e.g. IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Microsoft Azure, AWS) .

    You’ll develop and implement first of a kind Advanced Analytics / Cognitive Computing solutions for our clients including: use case and business case development; proof of concept execution to prove the value of use cases; solution outline and design of systems; as well as supporting business development activities.

    Strong experience of crafting data related value propositions and solutions is a must, as is the ability to communicate these solutions effectively at C-Level.

    You’ll have strong experience in designing and building innovative solutions based on the above technologies but you will also be have the expertise and architectural mindset to relate and integrate such solutions with existing client system infrastructures, such as for example content management, information management, business analytics, existing data lakes, or CRM systems.

    Proven hands-on experience in conducting analyses on unstructured as well as structured / semi-structured data and in working with state-of the art technologies in Advanced Analytics & Cognitive Computing will be expected.

    Ideally you’ll have applied Cognitive Computing technologies in multiple industry or research projects. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in Financial Services, Government, Mining and Telecommunication sectors

    This is an environment where communication, networking and people skills are extremely important. You’ll need to display a talent for collaborating with clients and their teams effectively and be comfortable working in international and distributed teams.

    All candidates must be fluent in English as well as the local language of the country to which they have applied.

    Required Technical and Professional Expertise

    • Proven track record in supporting clients in transforming their data landscape – 10+ years
    • Data Science and AI technologies (e.g. Watson Knowledge Studio) 5+ years
    • Cloud (IBM, AWS, MS Azure) 3+ years
    • Architecture Patterns and Certifications (e.g. SOA, EDA, TOGAF) 5-10+ years
    • Data Management and Data Lake technologies (eg. IBM MDM, Terradata and Informatica) 5-10+ years
    • Programming/coding experience using Python, SQL, Java, JS, NodeJS 3+ years
    • Experience in IT Data Architectures 10+ years

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    CLOUD ARCHITECT

    As a Cloud Architect at IBM Services, you are providing consultative, architectural, program and engineering support for our customers' journeys to the cloud. As part of this journey you are delivering innovative solutions that are tailored to the specifics needs of our customers. Building on your extensive experience with RedHat OpenShift you are building next-generation cloud native applications, sophisticated system integrations or ambitious cloud migration projects in a team of brilliant builders

    In this client facing role you need to be able to translate between business and tech. By building pragmatic IT solutions for real world problems you create value for our customers every single day. Being able to deliver across different technology stacks with deep hands-on-skills you support your team and our customers by coaching, teaching and giving advice. You strongly value diversity and different opinions. You know how to motivate. You do what is right, not what is easy.

    As a positive, forward-looking person you have good written and verbal communication skills (English). You can describe requirements through simple, clear-cut user stories and technical specifications. Even in difficult circumstances you are level-headed, and you manage to infect others with your positive attitude. You are always looking to learn something new and know about the latest technical trends

    Your Role and Responsibilities

    • Understand whole solution architecture concepts and can communicate and negotiate designs with customer architects.
    • Expertise in Cloud Governance and compliance.
    • Conceptualize solutions and develop architecture for large AWS and/or Azure engagements
    • Familiarity with data center concepts and best practices, high - availability systems, capacity planning, system performance evaluation, and diagnostic techniques and methodologies.
    • Develop automation scripts (using Python / Python / Shell / Power shell/ VB scripts) and batch files for automation of system and application administration on cloud.
    • Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments
    • Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning
    • Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks
    • Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment
    • Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes
    • Approve vendor level escalations and assist the L3 or L2 Engineers with incident resolution and closure.

    Required Technical and Professional Expertise

    • AWS and/or Azure certifications
    • RedHat ecosystem (Openshift, Ansible, RH Fuse, RH SSO, etc)
    • Advisory or consultancy experience in technical projects and services
    • 3+ years of experience in Openshift, Azure, AWS, Google or IBM Cloud technologies
    • 5+ years of experience in delivering complex and large-scale IT projects
    • 1+ year of experience in architecting in enterprises using agile methodologies (SCRUM, Kanban), Design Thinking
    • Cloud-native application development (PaaS, Serverless technology, API management, microservices)
    • Microservices (Java Springboot and others), Serverless, Istio
    • Microservices containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)
    • Programming languages: Java, Node.js, Python, JavaScript, PHP
    • DevOps and CI/CD principles (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Github, etc.)
    • Architecture-Design: Cloud-native and Cloud-ready applications (APIenabled, containerization)
    • API REST, API Gateways, Swagger, OAuth

    Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

    • AWS and/or Azure certifications
    • RedHat ecosystem (Openshift, Ansible, RH Fuse, RH SSO, etc)
    • Advisory or consultancy experience in technical projects and services
    • 3+ years of experience in Openshift, Azure, AWS, Google or IBM Cloud technologies
    • 5+ years of experience in delivering complex and large-scale IT projects
    • 1+ year of experience in architecting in enterprises using agile methodologies (SCRUM, Kanban), Design Thinking
    • Cloud-native application development (PaaS, Serverless technology, API management, microservices)
    • Microservices (Java Springboot and others), Serverless, Istio
    • Microservices containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)
    • Programming languages: Java, Node.js, Python, JavaScript, PHP
    • DevOps and CI/CD principles (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Github, etc.)
    • Architecture-Design: Cloud-native and Cloud-ready applications (APIenabled, containerization)
    • API REST, API Gateways, Swagger, OAuth

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