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Delivery Consultant - z Solutions, GDPS

IBM, New York, New York, us, 10261

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Delivery Consultant - z Solutions, GDPS

at IBM Introduction: Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you'll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business. Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us. 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. You will collaborate with clients to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges. A day-in-the-life may include, but is not limited to: 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 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 relationships at all levels—from engineers to CxOs—with experience navigating challenging debates to reach healthy resolutions. Self-Motivated Problem Solver: Demonstrating initiative, curiosity, and ability to navigate 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 The IBM Technology Expert Labs organization is looking for an IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (IBM GDPS) IT Management Consultant with expertise in IBM Z and Storage technology and products to lead and deliver pre-sales and post-sales client engagements that enable the adoption of IBM GDPS. Ideal candidates will have demonstrated a successful history of implementing IBM GDPS engagements, be familiar with sysplex architectural methods, can independently assess IT infrastructures, evaluate gaps in best practices and create IBM GDPS solution recommendations for client environments while displaying excellent collaboration and communication with Clients, Sellers, Business Partners and Colleagues by delivering reports to clients. Responsibilities You will be responsible for developing and delivering IBM GDPS solution design, architecture, and implementation of IBM GDPS solutions which may include: Setting up, configuring and cloning z/OS LPARs Configuring and customizing GDPS functional capabilities. Designing and customizing NetView automation, REXX and JCL to support IBM GDPS environment. Assisting with customer IBM GDPS deployment testing Providing technical guidance and skills transfer to customer personnel for IBM GDPS related topics. Producing planning and implementation reports and documentation. Installation, configuration, testing Storage, Storage Replication and IBM DS8 Storage experience. This role requires a strong knowledge of the IBM Systems Z hardware and software ecosystem, focusing on IBM GDPS. Strong z/OS, Parallel Sysplex, Networking and Automation skills are needed. You will work with customers and IBM Sales and Business Partners to position, scope, and delivery of IBM GDPS which is a collection of system recovery offerings on the IBM Z platform, each of which uses services, clustering technologies, and server and storage replication and automation. Candidates must possess a strong background in executive consulting or technical sales and knowledge of IBM’s GDPS portfolio. z/OS High Availability technology and capabilities including Parallel Sysplex (e.g., GRS, Coupling Facilities and Sysplex Failure Management) z/VM system programming & Linux on z Systems administration Copy Services technology including Metro Mirror, Global Mirror and z/OS Global Mirror (plus FlashCopy Software replication) and related GDPS/Active-Active concepts. Successful delivery of IBM Z projects and/or architecting and planning infrastructures for customer data centers. 3+ years’ experience in: Customer facing communications, requirements analysis, documentation, and report presentations. Project management and the ability to collaborate across teams globally; networking skills especially TCP/IP knowledge Tivoli System Automation and NetView Storage management experience using DFSMS Ability to lead customer technical workshops up to 20+ people; self-organized with strong analysis & troubleshooting skills Strong written and verbal communication skills Readiness to travel up to 20% annually English: Fluent Preferred Technical And Professional Experience Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise: Knowledge or experience with GDPS, PPRC and DR solution design and procedures Practical SMP/E knowledge Assembler, JCL, REXX and CLIST knowledge IBM System Automation and Red Hat Ansible knowledge Basic RACF knowledge Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Project Management and Information Technology Industries IT Services and IT Consulting Note: This refined description retains the essential responsibilities and qualifications from the original posting while removing extraneous postings and duplication. 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