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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, 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 groundbreaking 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.


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 role and responsibilities

Work you could do as a Consulting Intern: IBM provides a variety of solutions to clients and our specialized teams serve these needs. As 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. IBMers must make critical decisions every day, it is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.


At IBM, we prioritize ongoing learning, development of technical and core skills, and investing in your personal growth, all grounded in a culture of coaching and mentorship, you’ll get exposure to all that and more as an intern. 

  • Participate on a consulting project or initiative and experience first-hand how we help transform client´s business.
  • Focus on our client´s technical, business and user needs to co-create solutions that add value. 
  • Work collaboratively to deliver innovative solutions for clients. 
  • Develop an understanding of our client’s future state goals and processes, then define the steps needed and leading technologies to help turn their goals into reality. 
  • Learn about a client’s industry, tackle new challenges, and learn about how their business and technology intersect. Join our IBM Canadian intern community and meet other IBMers during networking events, special team events and career development activities. 

This position is open to applicants who reside in Toronto, Montreal or Ottawa and is open to applicants seeking a 4 month internship work term, commencing in September 2025. It is mandatory that all applicants are enrolled in full-time studies at a post-secondary institution and returning to full-time studies upon completion of their work term.

Candidates considered for a Quebec position must be fluent in French.

For candidates located in Ottawa, Government of Canada Reliability Clearance is a requirement for this role. In order to be eligible for Government of Canada Reliability Clearance, you:

  • Must be either a Canadian Citizen or Canadian Permanent Resident
  • Must have resided in Canada for a minimum of 5 consecutive years
  • Must have a clean criminal and credit history
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Skill sets we are looking for may include:

  1. Can understand clients’ needs and challenges and apply creative and logical approach to identify solutions  
  2. Demonstrate quantitative analysis skills and ability to derive recommendations informed by data and insights 
  3. Can work on multiple tasks concurrently and meet deadlines, while maintaining focus in an environment with conflicting demands 
  4. Ability to communicate complex situations clearly and simply by listening actively and conveying difficult messages in a positive manner 
  5. Strong interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and work effectively with individuals, strengthening relationships to achieve win-win solutions 
  6. Experience with the Microsoft Office suite of tools 
  7. Consultant – Agile, Scrum, User Stories, Product Backlog, Roadmap, Use Case, Requirements, JIRA, Confluence
Preferred technical and professional experience
  1. A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view 
  2. Can translate business requirements into technical solutions  
  3. Demonstrate leadership experience and ability to adapt, with willingness to readily take ownership of tasks and problems 
  4. Have initiative to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills 

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 qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.


This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

This role is posted for a potential future opportunity only. There is no existing vacancy for this role. Although we don't have an immediate opening, we value proactive candidates like yourself who are interested in a future career with IBM. We will keep your application on file for the next 90 days and contact you if a suitable opportunity arises or if your application has expired during that period.