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

• Leverages technical knowledge to support SAP solutions. Understands the technology architecture, the multiple platforms and multiple software packages in the existing Client environment.

• Designs applications required to automate business processes and meet business needs. The resulting design may run on multiple platforms and may be composed of multiple software packages and custom components.
• This role defines best practices in the critical evaluation and selection and / or development of the software components and hardware requirements of the applications and data, and the development of the application, including evaluation and selection of development methods, development processes, best practices and tools.

These specialists are responsible for applications-related quality, performance, availability, scalability, and integrity. They are also responsible for the functional interface to applications and for ensuring application usability.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Professional knowledge of function, business unit or country operations. Understand organizational resources, priorities, needs and policies.
• Guide other professionals.
• Adapt communications and approaches to conclude negotiations with various partners, resulting in common agreements.
• Analyze complex/new situations, anticipate potential problems and future trends, assess opportunities, impacts, and risks. Develop and implement solutions.
• Fluent English is a must

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
TBD