What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Automation Architect - Garage position at IBM?
Introduction
The IBM Garage was founded in 2014, to make clients successful adopting IBM Cloud – which was a new thing at the time. The Garage’s way of accelerating business value for its clients has proved so successful that it has expanded steadily, covering more and more of IBM’s portfolio worldwide. A client recently described their experience with us by saying that the Garage “felt like working with a highly agile and creative startup, but at the same time we had full access to the competence, quality, and scale of IBM.”
A brand-new Garage organization has been created this year in our presales organization to apply the Garage co-creation approach to introduce IBM cloud and cognitive technologies to our clients – spanning from our Red Hat Open Shift platform to solutions such as business automation or supply chain. We keep our clients focused on their end users and business outcomes, and we help match their needs with IBM’s enterprise technological capabilities.
We’re creating squads made up of IBM designers, solution architects, cloud engineers, data scientists, and subject-matter experts. The squads involve the client in the experiential process of working with the Garage, co-creating value side by side executing projects of typically 3 to 6 weeks duration. You can learn more about the IBM Garage approach at https://www.ibm.com/garage.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
The IBM Garage was founded in 2014, to make clients successful adopting IBM Cloud – which was a new thing at the time. The Garage’s way of accelerating business value for its clients has proved so successful that it has expanded steadily, covering more and more of IBM’s portfolio worldwide. A client recently described their experience with us by saying that the Garage “felt like working with a highly agile and creative startup, but at the same time we had full access to the competence, quality, and scale of IBM.”
A brand-new Garage organization has been created this year in our presales organization to apply the Garage co-creation approach to introduce IBM cloud and cognitive technologies to our clients – spanning from our Red Hat Open Shift platform to solutions such as business automation or supply chain. We keep our clients focused on their end users and business outcomes, and we help match their needs with IBM’s enterprise technological capabilities.
We’re creating squads made up of IBM designers, solution architects, cloud engineers, data scientists, and subject-matter experts. The squads involve the client in the experiential process of working with the Garage, co-creating value side by side executing projects of typically 3 to 6 weeks duration. You can learn more about the IBM Garage approach at https://www.ibm.com/garage.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Naturally we don’t expect that you have experience with every activity listed here, or that you have used every tool that we use. But we do expect you to demonstrate that you have an aptitude for the activities, an ability to learn new techniques and tools, and a curiosity and drive to take on new challenges and thrive in uncertain circumstances.
As a Business Automation Architect, you must understand and articulate our Intelligent Automation point of view including concepts such as process and decision discovery, modeling, automation and optimization, , RPA, artificial intelligence, machine learning and process mining. You will be part of or lead a squad of clients and IBMers harvest business requirements, model processes and then work with IBM business automation products to automate and digitize business processes to better serve client end users. You will be expected to perform implementation of user stories, as developed through design meetings and discovery workshops.
As a Business Automation Architect, you must understand and articulate our Intelligent Automation point of view including concepts such as process and decision discovery, modeling, automation and optimization, , RPA, artificial intelligence, machine learning and process mining. You will be part of or lead a squad of clients and IBMers harvest business requirements, model processes and then work with IBM business automation products to automate and digitize business processes to better serve client end users. You will be expected to perform implementation of user stories, as developed through design meetings and discovery workshops.
- Work with leadership and stakeholders throughout an organization to design and develop approaches to automating business processes
- Facilitate process discovery workshops and activities
- Drive automation of processes to reduce costs, improve accuracy, streamline workflows throughout the organization, and enhance customer experience.
- Learn, develop and implement automated solutions using IBM automation solutions including workflow and decision management platforms, RPA, and incorporating AI capabilities working as part of a multidisciplinary squad consisting of IBMers and clients
- Drive alignment and collaboration across business and IT client teams to communicate process requirements
- Apply in depth knowledge of automation technology solutions and industry use cases to influence clients and sell IBM solutions
- Identify new automation opportunities to clients and IBM, using industry use cases and learnings from other engagements
- Stays current on automation technologies and applications
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- Garage
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- In depth expertise in architecting, developing and deploying business automation solutions involving one or more of the BPM, Case Management, Decision Management or RPA capabilities.
- Experience with business process, case and/or decision modeling and the associated BPMN, CMMN and DMN standards, and practice of object-oriented design.
- Experience presenting business automation concepts and vision to business executives and technical teams
- Experience with web service integration
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
- Experience with process mining and its relationships to other automation capabilities
- Experience with user interface design and development
- Familiarity with AI and machine learning techniques
- Familiarity with technologies supporting business automation solutions, such as document processing, content management, business event monitoring…
- Client facing experience: pre-sales/post sales experience
Salary : $1 - $1,000,000
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