Introduction

Shape the Future of Cloud, AI and Modernisation at National Scale

IBM Consulting Australia is seeking a dynamic AWS Chapter Lead to drive our cloud architecture, engineering excellence, AI‑enabled transformation and practitioner capability uplift across the region. This is a leadership role for a proven AWS practitioner who thrives at the intersection of technical leadership, people development, client delivery excellence, and growth.

As the AWS Chapter Lead, you will guide large‑scale cloud modernisation programs, shape architectural best practices, lead AWS tribes and communities of practice, and empower teams to deeply adopt AI across delivery lifecycles — from application migration and modernisation to software engineering.

About the Role

As an AWS Chapter Lead, you will be accountable for capability leadership, performance discipline and delivery governance, talent uplift and innovation and while supporting growth of our AWS consulting practice. You will work across multiple client accounts, major transformation programs and internal strategic initiatives, ensuring IBM delivers high‑quality, modern and AI‑driven outcomes across industries.

Your role and responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

1. Origination, Bid Management & Growth Leadership

Lead or support deal origination, shaping IBM and AWS aligned value propositions, solution architectures and differentiated offerings.
Drive bid leadership, contributing to proposal strategy, solution governance, estimation, and client presentations.
Collaborate with IBM industry and account teams to identify opportunities forAWS‑based transformation, and AI‑driven modernisation to unlock business value.
Build strong working partnership with AWS to drive growth together

2. AWS Capability Leadership & Chapter/Tribe Management:

Lead and scale AWS capability, competency development and practitioner proficiency across architecture, engineering and FinOps.
Build and coach high‑performing AWS Architecture and Engineering Tribes, fostering deep expertise in cloud-native design, platform engineering, migration and modernisation.
Define the learning strategy for AWS certifications, hands‑on labs, community events, and internal knowledge accelerators.

3. AI Advocacy & Engineering Transformation

Act as the champion for AI adoption across all cloud transformation work.
Embed AI into:
- application migration & modernisation patterns
- architectural assessment frameworks
- software engineering and DevSecOps workflows
Drive adoption of generative and agentic AI, code acceleration, and automation in delivery teams.

4. People Management & Talent Development

Manage a team of AWS practitioners, providing coaching, mentoring, performance management and career development.
Role‑model IBM's leadership behaviours, cultivating a growth mindset culture built on collaboration, curiosity and continuous improvement.
Lead workforce planning, succession planning and recruitment aligned to practice growth.

5. Delivery Excellence, Quality & Governance

Provide architectural leadership and delivery oversight on complex AWS programs including migration, modernisation, data transformation and platform engineering.
Ensure adherence to IBM and industry best‑practice frameworks for architecture, delivery assurance, risk management, and cloud governance.
Conduct solution reviews, delivery health checks and technical assurance activities when needed.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise

Deep technical knowledge and hands‑on experience with AWS native services, cloud‑native architectures, landing zones, networking, security and IAM.
Demonstrated experience leading large‑scale migration and application modernisation programs (replatforming, refactoring, containerisation, serverless, API modernisation).
Strong expertise in cloud DevOps, automation, IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform), CI/CD, observability and AI‑accelerated engineering.

Consulting & Leadership Experience

Proven track record leading client‑facing engagements, owning deliverables and managing executive stakeholders.
Experience leading complex delivery programs with strong governance discipline and multi‑vendor coordination.
Ability to guide clients through cloud strategy, business case creation, discovery, design and execution phases.

Mindset & Behaviour

Growth mindset with strong ownership, curiosity, and continuous learning.
Demonstrated ability to role‑model modern ways of working including agile delivery, transparent communication and collaborative leadership.
Passion for developing people, shaping culture and elevating technical excellence.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Familiarity with Angular.js: Knowledge of Angular.js is beneficial for designing cloud-native solutions and providing technical guidance on related AWS Services.
Understanding of API and Microservices: Experience with API and Microservices-based architecture implementation is advantageous for leading the implementation of architecture for omnichannel systems of engagement.
Proficiency in Multiple Cloud-Native Technologies: Expertise in multiple cloud-native technologies, such as Node.js, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, or Netflix OSS, is desirable for designing cloud-native solutions.

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.

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