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Application Architect-Cloud Data Modernization

IBM

2 - 5 years

Mangalore

Posted: 18/05/2026

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Job Description

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

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

As an Application Architect specializing in Cloud Data Modernization, you will lead and build data modernization and transformation solutions, working closely with technical leads, database administrators, and database developers. You will drive the development of scalable, highly available data migration solutions leveraging cloud technologies and agile development methodologies. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Design Data Migration Solutions: Develop recommendations and solutions for large-scale data migrations, including Extract/Transform/Load activities for various data and database technologies, such as Oracle to PostgreSQL and relational to NoSQL. • Transform Business Requirements: Convert business requirements into technical specifications, creating prototypes and proof of concepts to address specific business challenges. • Collaborate with Clients: Assist clients in architecting data migration solutions, ensuring scalability and high availability, and utilizing cloud technologies and agile methodologies. • Develop Data Transformation Prototypes: Create prototypes and proof of concepts for data transformation activities, including data ETL, using tools like IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Informatica PowerCenter. • Drive Technical Solutions: Provide technical expertise and guidance on data modernization and transformation solutions, focusing on data ETL activities and cloud technologies.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Data Modernization Leadership: Experience with leading and building data modernization and transformation solutions, including large-scale data migrations and Extract/Transform/Load activities for various data and database technologies. • Technical Expertise in Data ETL: Deep expertise in data ETL activities, including experience with RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Amazon RDS), Data Lake technologies, and Data Transformation tools (IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Informatica PowerCenter, Microsoft SSIS, Oracle Data Integrator). • Cloud Technology Proficiency: Experience with cloud technologies, including designing and implementing scalable, highly available data migration solutions leveraging cloud-based services. • Data Transformation Knowledge: Experience with data transformation languages and formats, including XML, JSON, and NoSQL, as well as programming languages like Python. • Agile Methodology Familiarity: Experience with agile development methodologies, including applying agile principles to data modernization and transformation projects.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Data Warehousing Knowledge: Experience with Data Warehouse to Data Lake solutions, including data transformation and migration activities. • COTS Systems Expertise: Experience with data transformation of business rules between Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) systems, including data ETL activities. • Indexed File Systems: Experience with migrating Indexed file systems to database management systems, including data transformation and migration activities.

Years of Experience:
14 - 18

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.

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About Company

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is a leading global technology and consulting company, headquartered in Armonk, New York. With over a century of innovation, IBM provides a wide range of technology solutions and professional services. The company specializes in cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, quantum computing, and cybersecurity, helping organizations digitally transform their operations. IBM’s flagship AI platform, Watson, and its hybrid cloud capabilities are widely used across industries such as healthcare, finance, government, and manufacturing. IBM is known for its strong commitment to research and development, and it consistently ranks among the top organizations for U.S. patents.

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