**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio **Your role and responsibilities** As an Application Architect You'll participate in many aspects of the software development lifecycle, such as design, code implementation, testing, and support. You will create software that enables your clients' hybrid-cloud and AI journeys. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Design, develop, and deploy cloud-native Java applications within secure VPC environments. * Build scalable microservices using Quarkus and expose APIs via REST and SOAP web services. * Implement event-driven communication using Apache Kafka. * Develop and maintain UI components using JSF, where applicable, Ensure high performance, resilience, and availability of backend systems. * Collaborate with DevOps teams to implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines, Write clean, testable, and maintainable code following industry best practices and coding standards **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Must be an Engineering Graduate (BE / BTech ) or MCA with minimum 12+ & 4 years of education. * Good to have skill : Provision and manage AWS services such as ECS Fargate, S3 Lambda using Terraform IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.