**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; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience. **Your role and responsibilities** As a Cloud Architect below are the roles & responsibilities: 1. Create roadmaps based on the cloud’s capacity, efficiency, and ecosystem security. 2. Create diagrams, domain models, and other types of software artifacts to decode a particular problem. 3. Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the needs of the company. 4. Evaluating architecture systems 5. Define end to end Cloud based Architecture catering to client needs and requirements. 6. Will lead the technical discussions with client and client teams for idea generation, industry use case preparation and implementation. 7. implement cloud architecture solutions based on AWS , Azure Cloud when assigned to work on delivery projects. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. * 15 - 20 years of experience in Technology Architecture domain * 10+ years of experience in architecture and design, with a focus on enterprise-level solutions. * Proven hands on expertise in AWS Cloud * Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, microservices, APIs, containers, Kubernetes and serverless computing. * Experience in using atleast 2 Low Code platforms for development projects * Demonstrated experience in creating and maintaining cloud strategies and architectural standards. * Experience of architecting medium & large complex systems in the India market- with a value greater than USD 2 Million. * Must have expertise in working with at least 1 industry - financial services or manufacturing * Should have had earlier career Experience in design, development and architecture of Java/JEE/.NET/Integration based systems * Should have experience in Infrastructure architecture, Sizing, estimation, provisioning, and automation of compute/storage/network * Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams * India Market experience is mandatory **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Experience in Agile ways of working * Creative problem-solving skills * Excellent written and oral communication skills 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.