Solution Consultant-Cloud Solutions

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 a Solution Consultant for Cloud Solutions, you will lead the development of cloud-based solution proposals and orchestrate the creation of complex, multi-year, custom solutions. You will work closely with multi-geo, multi-discipline teams of subject-matter experts to define technical and commercial solutions that meet client business requirements.

Your Primary Responsibilities Will Include

• Develop Solution Proposals: Lead the development of cloud-based solution proposals, utilizing a combination of multi-cloud offerings, services, labor, assets, hardware, and software to meet client business requirements.
• Collaborate with Experts: Work with multi-geo, multi-discipline teams of subject-matter experts to define technical and commercial solutions for business requirements provided by clients in RFI/RFP.
• Orchestrate Solution Development: Oversee the development of complex, multi-year, custom solutions and associated price cases, ensuring alignment with client business requirements.
• Define Client Value Proposition: Lead the definition of client value proposition during the solutioning phase, applying a keen understanding of multi-cloud campaigns.
• Apply Technical Expertise: Apply experience in areas such as migration, continuous modernization, co-existence architecture, refactor, containerization, APIs, Microservices, Containers, and Kubernetes to develop effective solutions.

Preferred Education

Associate’s Degree/College Diploma

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Cloud Solution Development: Exposure to developing cloud-based solution proposals, utilizing multi-cloud offerings, services, labor, assets, hardware, and software to meet client business requirements.
• Multi-Discipline Collaboration: Experience working with multi-geo, multi-discipline teams of subject-matter experts to define technical and commercial solutions for business requirements.
• Technical Solutioning: Exposure to areas such as migration, continuous modernization, co-existence architecture, refactor, containerization, APIs, Microservices, Containers, and Kubernetes.
• Cloud Platform Experience: Experience in project solutioning on at least one cloud platform, including IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, RedHat OpenShift, or Google.
• Application Component Understanding: Understanding of application components such as System of Engagement (SOE), System of Insight (SOI), System of Integration (SOI), and System of Records (SOR).

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Cloud Platform Familiarity: Exposure to multiple cloud platforms, including IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, RedHat OpenShift, or Google, with the ability to apply this knowledge to develop effective cloud-based solutions.
• Containerization Expertise: Experience with containerization technologies, such as Kubernetes, and the ability to apply this expertise to develop scalable and efficient solutions.
• API Development Knowledge: Exposure to API development and integration, with the ability to design and implement APIs that meet client business requirements.