Introduction
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.

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 a Associate Package Specialist at IBM, you’ll help clients in the selection, implementation, and production support of application packaged solutions.

You’ll get in-depth Consulting experience, business knowledge, and packaged solution expertise to effectively integrate packaged technology into the clients’ business environment. Join us and start your path as a key player to achieve client results and become the expert you want to be. In your role you may be responsible for:

• Perform full life cycle of application implementation, including requirement definition, design, development, testing and date migration.
• Migrate between products or integration with other products, configuration of packages and recovery and backup
• Use your Consulting skills, business knowledge, and packaged solution expertise to effectively integrate packaged technology into the clients business environment.
• Assist in selection, implementation, and support of application

We have positions open in this location:
Rocket Center, West Virginia

Candidates must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Federal security clearance while in IBM Consulting-Federal.
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The below requirements are a guideline. If you have transferable skills we encourage you to apply to this role.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Federal security clearance while in IBM Consulting-Federal.
• Be willing and able to live near and work in Rocket Center, West Virginia

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Have flexibility to work across architecture – building both front end and backend
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud
• Exposure to technologies such as DevOps tools and techniques such as OpenShift, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, and or Agile.
• Exposure of best practices around design patterns, performance tuning, automated and unit testing
• Help maintain and improve code quality, organization, and automatization
• Communicate with stakeholders on technical issues Design and code servers, services, applications and databases on platforms such as PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle that are reusable, scalable and meet critical architecture goals.
• Proficiency in working with Git repositories for version control and collaborative development