**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 an Application Architect specializing in SAP solutions, you will integrate various SAP modules, set up environments, and provide infrastructure support. You will design applications that run on multiple platforms and are composed of multiple software packages. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Design Applications: Design applications that meet performance, availability, and scalability requirements, ensuring seamless functionality across multiple platforms and software packages. • Integrate SAP Modules: Integrate various SAP modules to create cohesive solutions, setting up environments and providing infrastructure support as needed. • Maintain Functional Interface: Maintain the functional interface to the application infrastructure, ensuring smooth interactions between applications and underlying systems. • Ensure Performance and Scalability: Oversee the performance, availability, and scalability of applications, making adjustments and optimizations as necessary. **Required technical and professional expertise** • SAP Module Integration: Experience with integrating various SAP modules to create cohesive solutions, including setting up environments and providing infrastructure support. • Multi-Platform Application Design: Experience with designing applications that run on multiple platforms and are composed of multiple software packages, ensuring performance, availability, and scalability. • Application Infrastructure Management: Experience with maintaining the functional interface to the application infrastructure, ensuring smooth interactions between applications and underlying systems. • Performance Optimization: Experience with overseeing the performance, availability, and scalability of applications, making adjustments and optimizations as necessary. • SAP Solution Architecture: Experience with designing and implementing SAP solutions that meet business requirements, including architecture, configuration, and deployment. **Preferred technical and professional experience** • SAP Solution Customization: Experience with customizing SAP solutions to meet specific business needs, including designing and implementing tailored configurations and deployments. • Multi-Platform Development: Experience with developing applications that run on multiple platforms, including designing and testing for cross-platform compatibility and performance. • IT Service Management: Experience with IT service management frameworks and methodologies, including ITIL, to ensure high-quality service delivery and alignment with business objectives. 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.