Introduction

　　At IBM, architects work to understand needs and create high-quality solutions that make meaningful impact. They possess knowledge of market leading technologies along with industry and business skills to influence outcomes. They are leaders, who take responsibility for an end-to-end solution delivery, starting from requirement gathering through solution architecture design to successful implementation and deployment.

　　We are looking for a highly motivated and innovative senior data architect, who'll join our Data & AI Software services organization IBM Expert Labs in the beautiful city of Kraków, Poland. We're looking for a person with a passion to the world of data management systems, like relational and non-relational databases, data warehouses and data lakes.

　　Your Role and Responsibilities

　　As individual contributor this position will work directly with cross functional teams, product management, support and engineering to build and transform data systems at customers.

　　Your role & Responsibilities:

　　Work in customer projects on data management systems implementations - solution architecture design, solution review and health checks, ongoing project help and supervision, ongoing solution consultancy i.e. performance tuning or data migration strategies

　　Work on and provide with reference architecture and guidelines, standards and best practices for greater IBM data management technology adoption and implementation (i.e. cloud migration, database modernization, data integration, data fabric, AI & ML, etc.) to share across the WW team

　　Review solutions and designs of peers, including data models, pipeline design and provide appropriate feedback including performance optimization. Support peers and IT partners by recommending solutions that reduce/manage risk and deliver value.

　　Monitor technology trends and emerging technologies. Model a future-state enterprise architecture which incorporates IBM data management platform. Help driving technology strategies and initiatives into actionable roadmaps with clear direction on execution, ensuring business value and ROI

　　Design and implement own, new tools for automating deployment or migration, etc.

　　Work in an agile and collaborative, international and cross-functional environment, including account teams, product management, support, engineering.

　　Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you'll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best-running and growing their business. 

　　Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators-always willing to help and be helped-as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.

　　Required Technical and Professional Expertise

　　B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience in Computer Science/Information Systems/Engineering

　　5+ years of experience in managing relational and non-relational databases, data warehousing and data lakes

　　Experience with data management infrastructure in various architecture: database management systems, storage considerations, file systems, operating system processes and virtualization, containerization and cloud services, connectivity, high availability, disaster recovery considerations

　　Experience with data processing, data types, data sets, SQL, ETL considerations and data integration

　　Advanced level of statistics

　　Must have a proven track record of innovation - 3x exemplary projects

　　Knowledge sharing experience, like speaking at conferences, publications

　　Excellent oral and written communication skills

　　Being detail-oriented, team-oriented, self-directed and adaptable to new development environments and changing business requirements.

　　Fluency in English language

　　Knowledge in second European language despite good command of English is a must.

　　Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

　　Experience in IBM Technologies: Netezza, Db2, Purescale

　　5+ years of experience using/working with open source technologies

　　Fundamental knowledge in one or more of the following technology areas: Scala, Python, Java, Kubernetes, SQL, Spark and stored procedures

　　Experience in Software migration, debugging and performance optimization

　　Preferred second European language, such as German, French, Spanish, Italian

　　About Business UnitGlobal Delivery Center in Krakow, Poland is a brand-new Team enabling IBM's Customers in EMEA region. We are a young and diversified Team of professionals, young talents, all generating impact, leveraging best practices, knowledge, years of experience. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a dynamic, entrepreneurial team that supports Enterprise clients running IBM Z that have a charter to transform, automate, and optimize their most critical transaction processing applications and data that support their core businesses.

　　IBM Technology Expert Labs consultants have the deepest technical expertise and experience in mainframe application platform technologies, they are experts in advising clients on modernization and optimization of database-driven, secure, integrated platforms for high-performance online transaction and data processing, assisting client IT teams advising them on preparing for a hybrid landscape as they modernize their applications.

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　　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.

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