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 an entry level Application 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
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and define technical specifications for generative AI projects
• 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, Postgres, DB2, MongoDB), operating systems (Linux, Windows, iOS, Android), and modern UI frameworks (Backbone.js, AngularJS, React, Ember.js, 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

• SQL authoring, query, and cost optimisation primarily on Big Query. Python as an object-oriented scripting language.
• Data pipeline, data streaming and workflow management tools: Dataflow, Pub Sub, Hadoop, spark-streaming…
• Version control system: GIT & Preferable knowledge of Infrastructure as Code: Terraform.
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience building and optimising data pipelines, architectures and data sets. Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable data stores.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment. We are looking for a candidate with experience in a Data Engineer role, who are also familiar with Google Cloud Platform.