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Solution Architect - Azure or AWS

IBM

Leicester, United Kingdom; Manchester, United Kingdom

On-site

Full-time

1mo ago

Benefits & Perks

•401(k) matching

•Flexible work arrangements

•Professional development budget

•Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

•Team events and activities

•Flexible Hours

•Learning

•Healthcare

Required Skills

JavaScript

Node.js

Python

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IBM

Solution Architect

Azure or AWS

2 weeks ago• Manchester, United Kingdom (+1 more)Leicester, United Kingdom
Viewed on February 1, 2026
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About Us

IBM researches, develops, manufactures, and markets technology products ranging from mainframe computers to cognitive solutions, always with a core drive to innovate and explore new fields.

Size: 10000+ employees
Industry: Technology

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Introduction

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You'll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

We are seeking IT Architects to lead the design and implementation of hybrid cloud application modernisation projects with our Public Sector clients. You will provide technical leadership for migrating existing applications to cloud and for building new cloud native solutions.

Your responsibilities will include:

Providing, architectural, consultative and engineering support for our customers' journeys to the cloud
Bringing industry insight to deliver innovative solutions, that are tailored to the specific needs of our customers
Leadership for transformations of enterprise complex projects, from system requirements through delivery and production/deployment, providing architectural and hands-on technical leadership to ensure overall solution integrity
Building strong relationships with our clients and acting as a trusted advisor

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

You will be familiar with AWS or/and Azure and be comfortable with Microservice architectures and a range of cloud, devops and integration technologies.
You will have worked on hybrid cloud complex systems integration projects designing elements of the target cloud solution and its integration with existing on-premise applications.
You will be comfortable working in 'rainbow' teams with multiple different suppliers or as part of a wholly IBM team.
Your background is likely to be a mix of large-scale waterfall deliveries and more agile projects.
You will be a hands-on professional with a proven track-record in keeping your skills up to date, ideally evidenced through recognized certifications.
Proficiency in designing and implementing hybrid cloud solutions combining on-premises and cloud-based services.
Experience in creating architecture diagrams component models and technology stacks for hybrid environments.
Deep understanding of major cloud providers (e.g. AWS Azure Google Cloud) and their respective services.
Familiarity with cloud-native services serverless computing and managed services.
Experience in designing managing and optimizing on-premises infrastructure including virtualization storage and networking.
Knowledge of on-premises automation tools (e.g. Ansible Puppet Chef).
Proficiency in designing and implementing secure connectivity solutions (e.g. VPNs Direct Connect VPN Gateways)
Experience in integrating on-premise
Public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes etc.)
Strong understanding & delivery experience of cloud native architectures
Extensive experience using agile delivery methods, i.e. Scrum
Good understanding of scaled agile delivery methods, i.e.

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Preferred technical and professional experience

Good knowledge of system design & delivery
Java & JavaScript frameworks eg Spring Boot, React, Angular, J2EE
Enterprise integration technologies (Kafka, MQ, IBM Streams, ESBs, ETL etc)
Enterprise level persistence technologies (Oracle, Postgres, DB2, NoSQL, Redis, Graph etc.)
Estimation experience (top down, bottom up, planning poker etc.)
Experienced in architectural languages or frameworks e.g. UML, Zachman, TOGAF
Understanding of Automation in the development, testing and operations context.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT:

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS:

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Client-provided location(s): Manchester, United Kingdom, Leicester, United Kingdom Job ID: IBM-60568Employment Type: OTHERPosted: 2026-01-10T18:50:21Apply on company site

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