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 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
Your role and responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end design of application architecture for custom development and integration projects.
- Define and implement best practices for application layer components, including controller logic, business services, data access layers, and APIs.
- Make architectural decisions on application frameworks, middleware, and communication protocols.
- Collaborate with client stakeholders to understand business requirements and convert them into technical specifications.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership during development, integration, and deployment phases.
- Define coding standards, review code artifacts, and lead troubleshooting sessions when needed.
- Guide the integration of cloud-native services, on-prem legacy systems, and 3rd party solutions.
- Contribute to solutioning and architecture review activities during pre-sales and proposal development.
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Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- 7+ years of experience in enterprise application development and architecture.
- Deep understanding of application design principles (layered architecture, separation of concerns, modularity).
- Proven experience with backend development using Java, Spring Boot, or equivalent technologies.
- Hands-on experience designing RESTful APIs, asynchronous processing, and service orchestration.
- Familiarity with common enterprise integration patterns and middleware
- Practical knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
- Ability to lead and mentor development teams.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Experience in large-scale digital transformation or legacy system re-architecture.
- Knowledge of container platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift) and service mesh technologies.
- Exposure to clean architecture, or reactive architecture patterns.
- Understanding of secure coding practices and application-level security concerns.
- Familiarity with frontend architecture (e.g., React, Vue.js) and its interaction with backend systems is a plus.
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.
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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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