Application Architect - Hybrid Cloud (Azure)

IBM

IBM

IT

Toronto, ON, Canada

Posted on May 12, 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.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Application Architect specializing in Hybrid Cloud Management, you will manage the overall application system, ensuring seamless interactions between components. You will establish technology standards, translate business objectives into technology standards, and select/define/enforce consistent products, vendors, methodologies, and standards. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Manage Application Systems: Manage the overall application system, ensuring seamless interactions between components, and address any issues and tickets across stacks in a Cloud-hosted application. • Establish Technology Standards: Establish technology standards, translate business objectives into technology standards, and select/define/enforce consistent products, vendors, methodologies, and standards. • Ensure Application Support: Ensure application support, performance, availability, and scalability, as well as maintain the functional interface to the application infrastructure. • Consult on Cloud Management: Consult clients on Cloud Management strategies and roadmaps, utilizing expertise in various technologies, including Java, Open Systems, DBMS, Mainframe, EAI, C++, and .NET. • Apply Architectural Patterns: Apply knowledge of architectural patterns and DevOps methodologies to optimize application systems and ensure seamless interactions between components.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Technology Standards Development: Experience with establishing technology standards, translating business objectives into technology standards, and selecting/defining/enforcing consistent products, vendors, methodologies, and standards. • Multi-Technology Proficiency: Experience in various technologies, including Java, Open Systems, DBMS, Mainframe, EAI, C++, and .NET, with the ability to apply this expertise to optimize application systems. • Cloud Platform Understanding: Experience with Cloud platforms, including the ability to manage issues and tickets across stacks in a Cloud-hosted application. • Architectural Pattern Application: Experience with applying architectural patterns and DevOps methodologies to ensure seamless interactions between components and optimize application systems. • Consulting on Cloud Management: Experience consulting clients on Cloud Management strategies and roadmaps, with the ability to provide expert guidance on application support, performance, availability, and scalability.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Familiarity with Mainframe: Experience with Mainframe technology, including its applications and limitations, to inform technology standards and optimize application systems. • Knowledge of EAI: Experience with Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to ensure seamless interactions between components and optimize application systems. • Understanding of C++: Experience with C++ programming language to apply this expertise to optimize application systems and ensure seamless interactions between components.

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.

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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. For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

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