Application Architect: Microsoft .NET

Introduction

As an IBM Application Architect, you directly help clients transform their business and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of IBM platforms. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Application Architects participate in analyzing the clients’ legacy applications and surrounding systems, defining target application architectures including the new cloud-native core systems, and modernization strategies and execution plans for our clients. You will advise your clients to identify the most effective modernization approach and help modernize their legacy applications or build a completely new application stack using modern cloud native architectures with container platforms and cloud services.

In this role, you will:

- Provide end-to-end technical guidance and expertise; creatively applying cloud infrastructure and platform services to help solve business problems; and communicating these approaches to different business audiences in designated industries
- Represent and facilitate architecture in discovery discussions with prospective clients, assess architecture needs for projects, work with Development leads and Designers to provide proposals
- Upon commencement of engagements, co-lead client workshops with Designers; influencing participants from all levels of our clients’ organization to find the best outcomes and arrive at the architecture that will support the engagement
- Work with clients and IBM teams to identify business problems and provide innovative solutions to them while evangelizing and accelerating the adoption of current and future Azure Cloud services and technologies
- Use exceptional communication skills and with input from product management, development, and architecture thought leaders, work to deliver high quality end-to-end Solutions at Scale in response to the identified business requirements from our clients

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

- 5 years of overall experience in Architecting .NET solutions, C# Knowledge of an object programming and project patterns. C# proficiency and server side development experience with ASP.NET Web API.
- Experience in creating software using back-end technologies in Microsoft area: C#, .NET, Dapper, Entity Framework with the knowledge of SQL Server database
- Architecting and developing cloud-native applications including development of APIs and microservices on containers
- .Net Core with Azure Architect: Hands on experience in .Net Core MVC Web app/Web API with Entity Framework ORM (Mandatory skill) Hands on experience in .Net Framework Webforms /WCF /MVC Hands on experience in MSSQL Database Experience on cloud migration (good to have)
- Hands on experience in Cloud Native Development with Azure (Good to have)
- Experience in GIT version control

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

- Fluent in Chinese reading, listening, writing, and speaking/fluent in English reading and writing
- Experience with micro service developing framework, such as: Spring Cloud or Dubbo,..etc.
- Experience with Kubernetes technologies