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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 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.

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.

Your role and responsibilities

Lead the design, development, and maintenance of complex Java applications and systems.

·       Mentor and guide junior developers to ensure best coding practices and quality standards.

·       Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.

·       Analyze and troubleshoot complex software issues, identifying root causes and solutions.

·       Contribute to architectural decisions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

·       Continuously improve existing systems, optimizing performance and reducing technical debt.

·       Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in Java development and related technologies.

·       Participate in code reviews to ensure clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

You'll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies, ensuring the applications delivered are high performing, highly available, responsive, and maintainable.

Your primary responsibilities include:

  • Analytical Problem-Solving and Solution Enhancement: Analyze, validate and propose improvements to existing failures, with the support of the architect and technical leader.
  • Comprehensive Engagement Across Process Phases: Involvement in every step of the process, from design, development, testing release changes and troubleshoot where necessary, providing a great customer service.
  • Strategic Stakeholder Engagement and Innovative Coding Solutions: Drive key discussions with your stakeholders and analyze the current landscape for opportunities to operate and code creative solutions.
Required education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Key requirements:

  • At least 6 years of experience developing Java / Java Enterprise solutions with a proven track record of developing complex and large-scale applications.
  • Proficient in Java SE (Java 8+) with a deep understanding of the language specifics, OOP principles and software architecture.
  • Advanced Java backend programming experience, including EJB, REST, SOAP, JMS, Oracle WLS
  • At least 2 years of experience with Spring Framework, Quarkus, Micronaut or Jakarta EE.
  • At least 4 years of experience with JPA-based frameworks (such as Hibernate or EclipseLink).
  • Experience with modern Java build tools (Maven or Gradle).
  • Experience with microservices / microservice architecture and technologies like Docker, Podman and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with RESTful web services, API design and OpenAPI specification.
  • Knowledge of JSON, YAML and XML formats.


Database Skills:

  • Understanding of database management systems, including relational databases.
  • Advanced SQL knowledge.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL or Oracle.

Development Tools and Practices:

  • Experience with version control systems (preferably Git).
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) and tools (Eclipse IDE, Visual Studio Code, RTC, Jira, SoapUI or Postman, Monday or Trello).
  • Experience with cloud platforms (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).


Soft Skills:

  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate in a globally distributed team.
  • Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and organized.
  • Adaptable and quick to learn new technologies.
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • The ability to communicate in German is a major advantage.
  • Knowledge of web development concepts, including HTTP, HTML and CSS, JavaScript.
  • Experience with modern front-end technologies (Angular, React, or Vue.js).
  • Experience with legacy technologies (Swing, Eclipse RCP)
  • Familiarity with Event-Driven Architecture and usage of Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ for messaging.
  • Basic DevOps knowledge, including CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Travis CI, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or Tekton).

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.


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