• Solutions Architecture Specialist

    IBM (Tucson, AZ)


    Introduction

    A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

    Your role and responsibilities

    Join the NAVI engineering team to advance and maintain the most powerful AI-driven platform for HashiCorp and IBM customers. You’ll engineer and support NAVI, ensuring it is secure, scalable, and always at the forefront of automation, NLP, and data intelligence. Your work will drive the success of cloud automation, secure operations, and advanced data processing for global enterprises

     

    Responsibilities.

     

    *

     

    AI & NLP Integration

     

    Engineer chunking, annotation, embedding, and vectorization workflows for ingesting and processing enterprise data at scale.

     

    Build, optimize, and maintain data pipelines for NLP (OpenAI, Pinecone) and machine learning workloads.

     

    *

     

    Platform Maintenance & Enhancement

     

    Maintain, update, and troubleshoot the NAVI platform, leveraging HashiCorp Vault, Terraform, Consul, and Boundary for automation, security, and service networking.

     

    Proactively monitor platform health, reliability, and performance using HashiCorp best practices.

     

    Implement robust CI/CD pipelines for code, data, and infrastructure.

     

    *

     

    Automation & Infrastructure as Code

     

    Design and automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using HCL, Terraform modules, and Consul service discovery.

     

    Drive self-service, policy-driven infrastructure patterns for AI and data workloads.

     

    *

     

    Quality Assurance & Testing

     

    Build and maintain automated QA/test harnesses for all data, NLP, and pipeline workflows.

     

    Ensure thorough testing of all platform updates and integrations, including robust error handling and recovery.

     

    *

     

    Cross-Platform & API Engineering

     

    Integrate with third-party systems (Snowflake, SFDC, JIRA, Gainsight, Vivun) via robust, secure APIs and data connectors.

     

    Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and internal SDKs for platform extensibility.

     

    *

     

    Continuous Improvement

     

    Collaborate with platform architects, data engineers, and security teams to enhance NAVI’s capabilities.

     

    Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and operational excellence initiatives.

     

    Required technical and professional expertise

    7+ years’ experience managing:

    • Core Technologies:

     

    NLP frameworks: OpenAI APIs, Pinecone vector DB

     

    Data engineering: ETL, data chunking, annotation, vectorization, QA automation

     

    Langchain, Flowise, Pinecone, LLM Frameworks and NLP

    API development (REST, JSON, OAuth2)

    • Platform Operations:

     

    Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipeline automation

     

    Secrets management, RBAC, audit logging

    Monitoring, alerting, and platform troubleshooting

    • Soft Skills:

     

    Strong documentation, communication, and cross-functional teamwork

    Analytical problem-solving and a passion for continuous learning

    IBM 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, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.