Introduction
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 innovation 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 growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
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Your role and responsibilities
As a Lead Application Developer, you will be responsible for guiding and overseeing the work of junior application developers, while also participating in the design, development, and maintenance of software applications. This role demands strong technical skills, effective leadership, and the ability to foster a collaborative and productive team environment.
This role requires a high level of proficiency and competence in application development and leadership. As a Lead Application Developer, you're expected to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of your field and consistently deliver high-quality work while effectively leading and developing your team.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Oversee the design, development, and implementation of applications.
- Lead a team of application developers, providing guidance, coaching, and mentorship.
- Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, contributing to planning, design, coding, testing, and deployment.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, QA, and IT to define, design, and ship new features.
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
- Keep up-to-date with the latest technology trends and/or application tools.
- Contribute to the improvement of development processes and tools.
- Align development plans with organizational goals.
- Manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects.
- Ensure high standards of software quality through reviews.
- Motivate and mentor junior team members, promoting a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. A Master's degree would be advantageous.
- Proven experience as an Application Developer or in a similar leadership role.
- Expertise in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Python, Ruby, etc.
- Familiarity with Agile environments, Scrum, and DevOps methodologies.
- Experience with databases (SQL and NoSQL), version control systems (Git), and unit testing frameworks.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Ability to manage and motivate a team.
- Strategic thinker with experience in aligning development plans with organizational goals.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or similar would be advantageous.
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 50 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 qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.
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