Introduction
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 the around world.​ Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting embraces 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 IBM 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 Software Developer 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.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Collaboration in the platform and lifecycle strategy, as well as the development of the necessary activities for implementation.
• Intensive support of the platform engineering teams with regard to system architecture-relevant topics such as deployment, packaging, software distribution, target platform
• Derivation of architecture decisions with the software development teams
• Code reviews with software development teams
• Elaboration of concepts and designs as part of the further development of the existing application with a focus on operational aspects (stability, availability).
• Coordination with providers and monitoring of their realisation and operation.
• Planning, design and organisation of various maintenance activities of the development teams in the area of preventive maintenance and technical improvements.
• Coordinating concepts with other projects, e.g. for interfaces and protocols.
• Realisation of small features

What we offer you:

• Individual career path
• Access to countless trainings and certification offerings
• A knowledge sharing culture
• An environment where you are actively contributing your ideas
• The possibility to work in projects in one of the largest IT companies

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• At least 3 years of professional experience as an architect in Java development projects with a focus on integration architecture in agile environment
• Knowledge in Kubenetes and OpenShift
• Completed computer science education
• Fluent in English and German is a must (written & spoken)
• Swiss nationality or valid Swiss work permit / EU passport

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (or comparable certification)
• Extensive experience with asynchronous messaging and messaging architectures
• Extensive experience in high availability, redundancy and resilience
• Several years of experience with platforms for IT products
• Knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and operation
• Experience with AWS Outposts
• Strong background in software development with Java and messaging middleware
• Experience in software development in larger projects and high availability applications
• Service mindset, customer orientated