Senior Product Architect – IBM Automation Portfolio
Job Description
Introduction At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, let’s talk.
The IBM IT Automation team is looking for a Senior Product Architect –to join the IBM Concert product team.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Write product requirements for new integrations, enhance existing integrations, and identify ecosystem products to interact with
Enable tech sales and support teams by building specialized demos, assisting with RFIs, fielding scanner-specific questions
Engage prospects, customers, and internal stakeholders for discovery sessions and roadmap reviews
Conduct market research and analysis to identify market trends
Provide regular updates to the leadership team on product development progress and market signals
Provide expert inputs/insights: On product architecture, design decisions, and technology choices. Effectively collaborate with the stakeholders like Product/Offering Management, Sales and Mktg, Support.
Contribute to the core development/delivery: Be thorough with the technology domain and associated programming languages/frameworks/patterns and tool. Own coding/testing of some of the key/complex modules/components
Serve as an end-to-end SME: Demonstrates skills/expertise across all functional/non-functional aspects. Gain insights into customer adoption of product capabilities and rise above the silos of being client side, server side or module specific knowledge.
Be the trusted advisor to clients/customers: Stay at the forefront in understanding customer’s pain points both tactical and strategic. And work proactively to provide solutions/resolutions.
Be the agent of change/innovation: Challenge the status quo and provide though leadership and operational drive.
Drive eminence and respect: Be an active evangelist and thought leader inside and outside the organization.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
12+ years of relevant experience of working on Enterprise Class Products, preferably from Automation domain.
Expertise in Go/Python application development. Exposure to other programming languages, development / test environments, and related diagnostic tools.
Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills to analyse and resolve complex technical issues.
Good Expertise in building software/solutions that conforms to modern application architecture and practices.
Expertise in Dockers/Kubernetes/Microservices/REST APIs/PostgreSQL
Development experience in Cloud-native applications
Mastery of IBM Cloud, AWS Cloud Platforms.
Solid understanding of software architecture patterns, design principles and best practices.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise A part from technical skills, some of the foremost requirements are to have someone :
who is from Automation & Cloud background.
who is open to learn and take inputs constructively.
who embraces challenges and doesn’t believe in finding faults with team, peers or uplines. It’s Ok to err on skills but one need to be open minded towards improvement.
who can balance people, product and process goals. Being open minded is the key to success for this role.
About Business Unit
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
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