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IBM Systems and Solutions Architect Professional Certificate
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IBM Systems and Solutions Architect Professional Certificate

Launch Your Systems and Solutions Architect Career. Build job-ready expertise in IT architecture, modeling tools, systems design, and AI

John Rofrano
IBM Skills Network Team
Muhammad Yahya

Instructors: John Rofrano

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Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
Beginner level

Recommended experience

3 months to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Analyze, design, and develop scalable enterprise systems architectures with modeling tools, GenAI, and agile methodologies

  • Define and implement effective integration strategies and deployment blueprints, using generative AI to enhance architectural decision-making

  • Apply microservices, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, and design patterns to build resilient, automated system environments

  • Implement cybersecurity frameworks, compliance practices, and SDLC processes to secure enterprise systems, assess risks, and plan disaster recovery

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What you'll learn

  • Explore the exciting world of systems architecture and learn the fundamentals to design scalable, reliable system solutions

  • Explain systems and solutions architects roles, skills, career paths, certifications, & how they use systems thinking and SDLC to meet business needs

  • Gain hands-on experience by applying systems design fundamentals and tools to design IT systems and solutions

  • Utilize requirement-gathering, prototyping, and modeling tools to analyze business needs and develop documented solutions for real-world applications

Skills you'll gain

Category: Systems Architecture
Category: Systems Analysis
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Systems Development Life Cycle
Category: Systems Thinking
Category: Application Design
Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: Software Design Patterns

What you'll learn

  • Create data flow diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams, and unified modeling language diagrams to visualize data, system architecture, and workflows

  • Evaluate existing IT systems by assessing system architecture, features, performance, and UI/UX to identify inefficiencies and propose improvements

  • Conduct cost-benefit analyses, operational feasibility studies, and risk assessments to compare IT solution alternatives and recommend solutions

  • Integrate system analysis, modeling, and evaluation techniques in a project to propose a digital transformation strategy for a business

Skills you'll gain

Category: Systems Design
Category: Systems Analysis
Category: Risk Management
Category: Enterprise Resource Planning
Category: Computer Science
Category: Product Lifecycle Management
Category: Solution Design
Category: Business Communication
Category: Agile Methodology
Category: Process Flow Diagrams
Category: Business Analysis
Category: Business Transformation
Category: Information Technology
Category: Business Process Modeling
Category: Workflow Management
Category: Business Process
Category: Prototyping
Category: Systems Architecture
Category: Digital Transformation
Category: Data Modeling

What you'll learn

  • Job-ready skills in project and stakeholder management that employers value in a good business analyst

  • The fundamental concepts of project management, including project phases, communication strategies, stakeholder, and risk management

  • How to apply various project management tools to effectively manage projects, conduct risk assessments, and plan communication strategies

  • How to implement effective communication strategies to engage stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle

Skills you'll gain

Category: Stakeholder Engagement
Category: Risk Management
Category: Project Management
Category: Communication Strategies
Category: Stakeholder Management
Category: Communication
Category: Stakeholder Analysis
Category: Project Planning
Category: Requirements Analysis
Category: Project Coordination
Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: Plan Execution
Category: Business Analysis

What you'll learn

  • Job-ready skills in process modeling and requirements gathering for business analysis without any prior experience

  • How to apply BABOK principles in real-world scenarios

  • Methodologies for process mining and utilizing tools for comprehensive analysis to derive actionable business insights

  • Effective system modeling by creating entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs), data flow diagrams (DFDs), and applying unified modeling language (UML)

Skills you'll gain

Category: Business Analysis
Category: Business Process Modeling
Category: User Story
Category: Agile Methodology
Category: Requirements Management
Category: Stakeholder Analysis
Category: Business Process
Category: Requirements Analysis
Category: Data Modeling
Category: Process Analysis
Category: Process Optimization
Category: Process Improvement
Category: Gap Analysis

What you'll learn

  • Build job-ready skills in cloud native, microservices, containers, DevOps, and Agile employers are looking for in just 6 weeks.

  • Create RESTful APIs for modern web development and deploy them with Docker containers. 

  • Implement DevOps and CI/CD practices for streamlined development and deployment. 

  • Apply Agile and Scrum best practices for iterative, efficient software delivery.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Microservices
Category: Agile Methodology
Category: Cloud-Native Computing
Category: DevOps
Category: Docker (Software)
Category: Continuous Integration
Category: Cloud Infrastructure
Category: Restful API
Category: CI/CD
Category: Containerization
Category: Scrum (Software Development)
Category: Software Development Methodologies
Category: Continuous Delivery
Category: Kubernetes
Category: Cloud Applications
Category: Hybrid Cloud Computing
Category: Agile Software Development
Category: Cloud Development
Category: Agile Project Management
Category: Postman API Platform

What you'll learn

  • Importance, benefits, and core components of Enterprise Data Architecture (EDA) and popular data architecture frameworks.

  • How to design and implement Enterprise Data Architectures for specific use cases.

  • How to develop and implement policies and procedures, such as data retention policies and operational standards.

  • How to plan and execute data system migrations and modernizations.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Governance
Category: Data Migration
Category: Data Architecture
Category: Enterprise Architecture
Category: Scalability
Category: Data Management
Category: Data Modeling
Category: Emerging Technologies
Category: Database Architecture and Administration
Category: Data Warehousing
Category: Data Storage
Category: Data Processing
Category: Extract, Transform, Load
Category: Data Integration
Category: Technology Strategies
Category: Dataflow
Category: Application Frameworks

What you'll learn

  • Build valuable applied data storage, integration, and migration skills employers need. 

  • Gain hands-on experience using industry-specific data tools.

  • Demonstrate you understand data-related best practices and can apply methodologies through industry-standard processes. 

  • Showcase your ability to solve problems related to data processes that you can talk about in interviews.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Migration
Category: Extract, Transform, Load
Category: Data Integration
Category: Cloud Storage
Category: Data Storage
Category: Data Security
Category: Data Infrastructure
Category: Data Pipelines
Category: Data Architecture
Category: Data Management
Category: Disaster Recovery

What you'll learn

  • Create test plans and traceability matrices, and coordinate testing with quality assurance personnel, developers, and stakeholders

  • Build deployment checklists with clear launch steps, go/no-go criteria, rollback plans, and data validation techniques

  • Define key system metrics to support post-launch tracking, organize response plans, and guide improvement through retrospectives

  • Create a Testing and Release Kit with test strategy, validation checklist, and support plans for post-launch success

Skills you'll gain

Category: Release Management
Category: Application Deployment
Category: Test Driven Development (TDD)
Category: Software Testing
Category: Behavior-Driven Development
Category: Software Development Life Cycle
Category: CI/CD
Category: Business Process Automation
Category: Process Flow Diagrams
Category: Software Quality Assurance
Category: Data Modeling
Category: Product Lifecycle Management
Category: Test Planning
Category: Software Systems
Category: Digital Transformation
Category: Data Validation
Category: Risk Management Framework
Category: Systems Thinking
Category: Risk Management
Category: Systems Analysis
Cybersecurity Architecture

Cybersecurity Architecture

Course 912 hours

What you'll learn

  • Describe the five foundational principles of cybersecurity and the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) triad

  • Summarize the different areas that a cybersecurity architect must adopt to develop a secure enterprise solution

  • Discuss the different security domains, including IAM, endpoint security, network security, application security, and data security

  • Demonstrate your proficiency in recommending methods to improve network security in a given scenario

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Security
Category: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Category: Application Security
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Firewall
Category: Cyber Attacks
Category: Network Security
Category: Secure Coding
Category: Endpoint Security
Category: Security Controls
Category: Threat Detection
Category: Cyber Security Strategy
Category: Cybersecurity
Category: Authorization (Computing)
Category: Authentications
Category: Data Governance

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Generative AI
Category: Stakeholder Analysis
Category: Business Analysis
Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Process Flow Diagrams
Category: Systems Analysis
Category: Gap Analysis
Category: Solution Architecture
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Interviewing Skills
Category: User Story
Category: Systems Thinking
Category: Dashboard

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