2024 Associates - Application Consultant

Introduction
In this role you will join IBM Consulting via our world class Associate Program for university hires. As an Associate at IBM Consulting you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of clients worldwide. Our clients’ technical and business needs are constantly evolving. We’re hiring inspired talented individuals who believe no problem is too big to solve.

We focus on your professional development through ongoing learning mentorship development of technical skills and continuous personal growth all grounded in a culture of coaching and career advancement. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning and who wants to unleash your potential the IBM Consulting Associates Program is for you.

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.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As an entry level Application Consultant at IBM you will help us usher clients into a new age of future-looking technology. You’ll be assisting clients in the selection implementation and support of applications methodology and tools. You’ll be trained up to perform as an expert on existing and/or new applications specialized around things like Cloud Blockchain DevOp Enterprise Applications and Mobile. You will help our clients integrate enterprise-wide data for improved performance and efficiency. Leveraging a growth mindset you’re ready and willing to deliver business value wherever needed. In your role you may be responsible for: Working with project teams to advise clients on enterprise-wide data integrations Creating ways to better assess analytics better supporting business decision making Work as a team member with client personnel and other IBM teams to identify functional requirements and subsequently working with or in some instances leading others in the identification justification and design of the client’s solution. Participate in a wide range of design activities from requirements analysis through systems application and/or process design specification and implementation. Gain knowledge across multiple platforms processes or architectures

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Graduate in 2024 or within 2 years of graduation Bachelor degree or above. Priority: computer related disciplines (computer science/software engineering/communication and information/electronic engineering) etc
• Demonstrated programming proficiency and experience with 1 of the following (Java C++ Python Scala R SAS SQL Hadoop HTML SPSS VBA Tableau Spark Angular ReactJS) as well as systems design/development and information technology course work
• Exposure to web services API and Java application frameworks such as Springboot
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solution
• Familiarity with generative AI modeling ethics and methodologies
• Familiarity with Microservices architecture infrastructure concepts and cloud platforms AWS Azure IBM Cloud and Google Cloud

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise