Application Architect: Data Platforms

Job Description

IntroductionYour Role and ResponsibilitiesOver the past 100 years, IBMers all over the globe have helped make the world work better and smarter. In this new era of Cognitive Business, IBM is helping to reshape industries by bringing together our expertise in Cloud, Analytics, Security, Mobile, and the Internet of Things: Changing how we create, collaborate, analyze and engage. From transforming healthcare to improving the retail shopping experience - its what IBMers do. In Africa, weve been changing the way the continent does business for more than 50 years, and as our company continues to grow, were looking for talented professionals to join us in this new era.Join us and be part of a diverse and global team of thinkers and doers, and make an impact.The developer in this role, Designs, develops and supports application solutions developed for mobile by using iOS native platform.This role would be able to design, develop and/or re-engineer highly complex mobility applications, and integrate software packages, programs and reusable assets for the iOS platform.The base skill required is Objective C from a programming language and from an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the skill required is Xcode IDE, Instruments, simulators, frameworks and samples, compilers, Shark analysis tool. REQUIREMENTS: Required Professional and Technical ExpertiseSkills:Environment:Professional knowledge related to incumbents position, team, and department.Requires ability to absorb professional knowledge quickly and develop skills.Communication/Negotiation:Draw upon professional concepts to collaborate with others to carry out assigned duties.Negotiation is required.Problem Solving:Recognize job-related problems. analyze causes using existing techniques or tools, prepare and recommend solution alternatives.Challenge the validity of given procedures and processes with the intent to enhance and improve.Contribution/Leadership:Works on professional projects;work is often reviewed for developmental purposes.Understand the standard mission of the professional group and vision in own area of competence.Impact on Business/Scope:Accountable for individual or team results.May contribute by supporting activities that are subject to business measurements, impact customer satisfaction, or impact immediate costs or expenses.Preferred Professional and Technical ExpertiseNoneAbout Business UnitIBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the worlds economy. IBM Services partners with the worlds leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter business by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.Your Life at IBMAbout IBMLocation StatementBeing You at IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the regions technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

Reinvention is a keyword in the companys history and, today, IBM is much more than a hardware, software, services company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company.