Senior Delivery Consultant

At IBM Global Sales, we bring together innovation, collaboration, and expertise to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. Working across industries and geographies, you’ll partner with colleagues, clients, and partners to co‑create solutions that drive digital transformation and lasting impact. Your Role And Responsibilities As a Delivery Consultant, you will work closely with IBM clients and partners to design, deliver, and optimize IBM Technology solutions that align with your clients' goals. In this role, you will apply your technical expertise to ensure world‑class delivery while leveraging your consultative skills such as problem‑solving, hypothesis‑based methodologies, communication, and service orientation. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs, a client‑focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical team, you'll collaborate with clients to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges. Solving Client Challenges Effectively: Understanding clients' main challenges and developing solutions that help them reach true business value through design, development, integration, implementation, migration, and product support with a sense of urgency. Agile Planning and Execution: Creating and executing agile plans where you are responsible for installing and provisioning assets, testing, migrating to production, and day‑two operations. Technical Solution Workshops: Conducting and participating in technical solution workshops. Building Effective Relationships: Developing successful relationships at all levels from engineers to CxOs with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions. Self‑Motivated Problem Solver: Demonstrating a natural bias toward self‑motivation, curiosity, initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions. Collaboration and Communication: Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team. Preferred Education Bachelor's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise Lead end‑to‑end ISVA implementations: federation (SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, OIDC), reverse proxy, WebSEAL, Advanced Access Control, Risk‑Based Access, API protection, and containerized deployments (OpenShift/Kubernetes). Architect & customize ISVA solutions for high‑availability, multi‑data‑center, and cloud‑native environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). Perform health checks, upgrades, and migrations (ISAM 9 to ISVA 10.x). Migrate ISVA from VM/physical appliances to containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift), including snapshot‑based state transfer, config mapping, and zero‑downtime cutover. Integrate ISVA with upstream IdPs (Azure AD, Okta, Ping, AD FS), directories (LDAP, AD), and MFA solutions. Develop custom authentication modules (C/C++, Java, Python) and EAI/Forms‑based auth. Own performance tuning (junctions, session caching, SSL offload, clustering). Create deliverables: HLD/LLD, runbooks, SOPs, knowledge‑transfer sessions. Mentor junior consultants and conduct internal ISVA bootcamps. Support pre‑sales with PoCs, RFI/RFP responses, and solution scoping. Preferred Technical And Professional Experience Contributions to IBM ISVA TechXchange or open‑source IAM projects. Experience with IBM Verify Governance (IG) or Cloud Identity. Pre‑sales engineering or solution architecture background. #J-18808-Ljbffr