Associate: Software Developer

Job description

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 embraces long-term relationships, meaningful impact, 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 IBM 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 supported by mentors and coaches who will encourage you 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 learning opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As an Associate: Software Developer at IBM, you'll work with clients to co-create solutions to major real-world challenges by using best practice technologies, tools, techniques, and products to translate system requirements into the design and development of customized systems. In your role, you may be responsible for:

·  Working across the entire system architecture to design, develop, and support high quality, scalable products, and interfaces for our clients
·  Employing IBM's Design Thinking to create products that provide a great user experience along with high performance, security, quality, and stability
·  Working with a variety of relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DB2, MongoDB), operating systems (Linux, Windows, iOS, Android), microservice frameworks (Spring Boot, Express, Fiber), and modern UI frameworks (Angular, React, Bootstrap, and JQuery)
·  Creating everything from mockups and UI components to algorithms and data structures as you deliver a viable product

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Demonstrated programming proficiency and experience with 1 of the following (Java, C#, Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript), as well as systems design/development, and information technology course work
·  Exposure to APIs, web services, and multiple application frameworks
·  Ability to translate business requirements into technical solution
·  Ability to thrive in an ever changing, technology based Consulting environment, using agile development techniques

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Create quality mockups and prototypes and develop application code with code quality, performance, and automation
·  Communicate with stakeholders on technical issues
·  Design the applications, services, and databases that are reusable, scalable, and meet critical architecture goals
·  Have flexibility to work across architecture - building both frontend and backend applications