IBM Hiring for Banking Solution Architect at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full Time

Job Description

Introduction
Software Developers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives to design, code, test, and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today – planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe because of the work our software developers do. Whether you are working on projects internally or for a client, software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide. At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Who you are:
“As a BANKING INDUSTRY Solution Architect, you will be expected to have a Good understanding of Banking & Financial Markets, various sub-domains within this space including but not limited to Core Banking, Retail, Private, Corporate banking Payments, Cards, Lending, Risk & Compliance , Derivatives and Settlements etc. You will
apply your deep Industry expertise and knowledge of market trends in engaging with top technology architects in Global Systems Integrators and their client CTOs and business SMEs. Aside from partner facing role, you will apply your deep domain expertise to propose and build innovative and repeatable offerings for GSI that are powered by IBM products. In addition, will apply your deep domain expertise across the entire IBM portfolio , identify gaps and work with product teams to build solutions that partners can take to market. You will also work in the area of modern application architectures. You will be involved in discussions around Enterprise Application solutioning, Application Modernization using newest technologies such as Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes etc.
What you’ll do:
As a Banking Industry Solution Architect for Global Systems Integrator Labs, you will

• You will work with the Business & Technical SMEs of the GSI Clients to ideate & conceptualize Banking Industry solutions leveraging IBM Software, that will help drive next generation of Business .
• You will identify the Solution success criteria, drive its design from a Business Value standpoint.
• Influence technical experts in Global Systems Integrators to adopt IBM Software
• Suggest new solution offerings using IBM Software portfolio including IBM Cloud or AI
• Build/maintain direct relationships with technical and business partners
• Identify/nurture/progress potential IBM opportunities with System Integrators teams and align initiatives and support model to convert the opportunities into deals.
• Aggressively engage in /propose Proof of concept solutions, technical demonstration and value proposition discussions on new /emerging capabilities within IBM portfolio.
• Understand SI’s offerings/solutions which could leverage IBM for Go-to-Market and demonstrate the IBM Alliance ecosystem to strategically align and support such initiatives.
• Lead and work with the SI teams on responding to RFPs/RFIs.
• Effectively communicate IBM proposal
• Identify gaps in SI teams and plan for delivering of Technical Enablement around IBM portfolio for SI Teams in the context of any initiatives/opportunities IBM is driving.
• Understand IBM offerings and competitive offerings.

How we’ll help you grow:

• You will have access to Industry & related Publications, Market Intelligence reports, Trends from leading cosulting firms.
• You will have access to the technical & Business leaders of IBM
• You will work with top technical experts & Industry SME in the Global Systems Integrators and gain insights from their customers
• You will work on highly innovative solutions across a wide spectrum of technologies’IBMReferred_India’

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Overall 12+ years of experience in having worked in Banking Front Office & Backoffice functions, should experience in driving Business Solutions, transformations leveraging Technology, ISV products Eg : Flexcube, Finacle, TCS Bancs etc.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate business problems and value propositions of technology solutions in front of CXOs and business and technology stakeholders
• Strong relationship building skills
• Ability to pick up & articulate technology & software product value propositions
• Ability to drive solution build & delivery in capacity of a product owner.
• 2-5 Years in Banking Functions [Front office, backoffice] as a Business Analyst, systems Analyst
• 3-5 Years as a Banking Systems Analyst / Architect/ Product Owner leading transformation projects ( digital transformation , core banking transformation, payments transformations)”

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Exposure to mutilple technologies
• Exposure to machine learning, data science or blockchain
• Exposure to areas like new solution innovation and pre-sales

About Business Unit IBM’s Cloud and Cognitive software business is committed to bringing the power of IBM’s Cloud and Watson/AI technologies to life for our clients and ecosystem partners around the world. IBM provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments-with complete software solutions for business and IT operations, development, data science, security, and management. Our experts and software capabilities help organizations develop applications once and deploy them anywhere, integrate security across the breadth of their IT estate, and automate operations with management visibility. With IBM, you also have access to new skills and methods, governance and management approaches, and a deep ecosystem of industry experts and partners.IBM Global System Integrators Lab is part of the India Software Labs with a goal to increase the adoption of IBM technology with large partners. This team has a group of deep technology architects across all key IBM technologies that can help partners to co-create solutions which have a unique value proposition in the market, assist presales in customer opportunities through technical assistance. build capability by enabling practices with the right skills in IBM technologies and help define next generation services and thought leadership.

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