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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.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Application Architect for Commerce Transformation, you drive the strategic design and implementation of scalable, high-performance commerce platforms. You play a pivotal role in modernizing and optimizing commerce systems to support seamless customer experiences, operational agility, and business growth across digital and physical channels.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Design Commerce Architectures: Leverage deep expertise in enterprise architecture, digital commerce ecosystems, and omnichannel integration to design microservices-based architectures that align with enterprise goals and customer expectations.

• Implement End-to-End Solutions: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement end-to-end commerce solutions, ensuring they are cloud-native, resilient, and extensible.

• Select and Integrate Platforms: Choose and integrate headless commerce platforms, such as commercetools and Elastic Path, to support real-time inventory, pricing, promotions, and order management.

• Orchestrate APIs: Design and implement APIs to enable seamless integration with various systems, ensuring real-time data exchange and optimized commerce operations.

• Ensure Cloud-Native Solutions: Leverage containerization, serverless computing, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure commerce solutions are cloud-native, scalable, and secure.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Deep Expertise in Enterprise Architecture: Proven experience in designing and implementing scalable, high-performance commerce platforms, with a strong background in enterprise architecture, digital commerce ecosystems, and omnichannel integration.

• Technical Acumen in Microservices: Experience with designing microservices-based architectures, leveraging containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), serverless computing, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure cloud-native, resilient, and extensible commerce solutions.

• Experience with Headless Commerce Platforms: Hands-on experience with selecting and integrating headless commerce platforms, such as commercetools and Elastic Path, to support real-time inventory, pricing, promotions, and order management.

• API Orchestration and Integration: Experience in designing and implementing APIs to enable seamless integration with various systems, ensuring real-time data exchange and optimized commerce operations.

• Cloud-Native Solution Implementation: Proven experience in leveraging cloud-native technologies to ensure commerce solutions are scalable, secure, and meet enterprise goals and customer expectations.

**Please note this role requires a Federal Tier 3 Secret clearance, so you must either have one now or be eligible to obtain one after hired.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Containerization Expertise: Deep understanding of containerization using Docker and Kubernetes to ensure cloud-native commerce solutions.

• Serverless Computing Knowledge: Familiarity with serverless computing and its application in designing scalable and resilient commerce architectures.

CI/CD Pipeline Experience: Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure seamless and efficient commerce solution delivery.

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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Job Title

Outsystems Architect

Date posted

11-Feb-2026

Job ID

92927

City / Township / Village

Hampton, Annapolis Junction, ALEXANDRIA, Chantilly, WASHINGTON, Reston, McLean, Herndon, Bethesda, Catonsville, Frederick, Ashburn

State / Province

Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

144,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

248,000.00

Position type

Professional

Travel required

Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No



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