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Application Architect-Microsoft Analytics & Cloud

IBM

IBM

IT, Data Science
Calgary, AB, Canada
Posted on Apr 1, 2026
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 Microsoft Analytics & Cloud, you will design, implement, and support complex Data & AI architectures, possessing a deep understanding of complex data platforms. You will leverage your expertise to create and maintain data pipelines, data storage solutions, and data integration using various Azure services. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Design and Implement Data Architectures: Design and implement complex data architectures, connecting data sources, data visualization, structured and unstructured data, and advanced analytics using AI/ML. • Develop and Maintain Data Pipelines: Create and maintain data pipelines, data storage solutions, and data integration using Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Datafactory, Azure Databricks, and other Azure services. • Optimize Power BI Dashboards: Optimize Microsoft Power BI dashboards with a focus on usability, performance, flexibility, testability, and standardization. • Implement Data Governance: Implement data governance using Azure Purview, ensuring data quality, security, and compliance. • Deliver Solution Deployments: Deliver automated deployments using Azure DevOps, ensuring efficient and reliable solution delivery.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Data Platform Expertise: Possess a deep understanding of complex data platforms, including architectural sense for connecting data sources, data visualization, structured and unstructured data, and advanced analytics using AI/ML. • Azure Services Experience: Exposure to creating and maintaining data pipelines, data storage solutions, and data integration using Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Datafactory, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL Server, Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, Purview, and Cosmos DB. • Business Intelligence Proficiency: In-depth experience with Power BI and Microsoft Business Intelligence Suite (Microsoft SSAS, SSIS, SSRS), including design, architecture, and development roles. • Data Governance Knowledge: Experience with implementing data governance using Azure Purview, ensuring data quality, security, and compliance. • Software Engineering Fundamentals: Exposure to software engineering techniques, software engineering architecture, software engineering life cycle, and data management, with experience in Agile fundamentals and methodology.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Microsoft Azure Logic Apps: Experience with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure IoT, and Azure App Fabric is beneficial for this role. • Azure Machine Learning: Knowledge and experience in using Azure Machine Learning cloud-based predictive analytics services is advantageous. • No-SQL Database Expertise: Deep technical experience in No-SQL databases, specifically Cosmos DB, is desirable.

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

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.