A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
In this role you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
· Mentor and guide junior developers to ensure best coding practices and quality standards.
· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define design and deliver new features.
· Analyze and troubleshoot complex software issues identifying root causes and solutions.
· Contribute to architectural decisions ensuring scalability reliability and maintainability.
· Continuously improve existing systems optimizing performance and reducing technical debt.
· Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in Java development and related technologies.
· Participate in code reviews to ensure clean maintainable and efficient code.
You'll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies ensuring the applications delivered are high performing highly available responsive and maintainable.
Your primary responsibilities include:
- Analytical Problem-Solving and Solution Enhancement: Analyze validate and propose improvements to existing failures with the support of the architect and technical leader.
- Comprehensive Engagement Across Process Phases: Involvement in every step of the process from design development testing release changes and troubleshoot where necessary providing a great customer service.
- Strategic Stakeholder Engagement and Innovative Coding Solutions: Drive key discussions with your stakeholders and analyze the current landscape for opportunities to operate and code creative solutions.
You'll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies ensuring the applications delivered are high performing highly available responsive and maintainable.
Your primary responsibilities include:
• Analytical Problem-Solving and Solution Enhancement: Analyze validate and propose improvements to existing failures with the support of the architect and technical leader.
• Comprehensive Engagement Across Process Phases: Involvement in every step of the process from design development testing release changes and troubleshoot where necessary providing a great customer service.
• Strategic Stakeholder Engagement and Innovative Coding Solutions: Drive key discussions with your stakeholders and analyze the current landscape for opportunities to operate and code creative solutions.
Key requirements:
· At least 6 years of experience developing Java / Java Enterprise solutions with a proven track record of developing complex and large-scale applications.
· Proficient in Java SE (Java 8+) with a deep understanding of the language specifics OOP principles and software architecture.
· Advanced Java backend programming experience including EJB REST SOAP JMS Oracle WLS
· At least 4 years of experience with Spring Framework Quarkus Micronaut or Jakarta EE.
· At least 4 years of experience with JPA-based frameworks (such as Hibernate or EclipseLink).
· Experience with modern Java build tools (Maven or Gradle).
· Experience with microservices / microservice architecture and technologies like Docker Podman and Kubernetes.
· Experience with RESTful web services API design and OpenAPI specification.
· Good Knowledge of JSON YAML and XML formats.
· Understanding of Artificial Intelligence fundamental concepts
· Familiarity with AI platforms and AI common tools used for assisting in daily tasks
· English language (B2)
· German language (B2)
Database Skills:
· Understanding of database management systems including relational databases.
· Advanced SQL knowledge.
· Experience with PostgreSQL MySQL MS SQL or Oracle.
· Familiarity with No SQL databases
Development Tools and Practices:
· Experience with version control systems (preferably Git).
· Familiarity with Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum Kanban) and tools (Eclipse IDE Visual Studio Code RTC Jira SoapUI or Postman Monday or Trello).
· Experience with cloud platforms (IBM Cloud AWS Azure or Google Cloud).
Soft Skills:
· Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
· Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate in a globally distributed team.
· Self-motivated detail-oriented and organized.
· Adaptable and quick to learn new technologies.
· Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Knowledge of web development concepts including HTTP HTML and CSS JavaScript.
- Experience with modern front-end technologies (Angular React or Vue.js).
- Experience with legacy technologies (Swing Eclipse RCP)
- Familiarity with Event-Driven Architecture and usage of Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ for messaging.
- Basic DevOps knowledge including CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins Travis CI GitLab CI GitHub Actions or Tekton).