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 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 Associate Cloud Application Consultant at IBM you will help us usher clients into a new age of future-looking technology. You'll be assisting clients in the selection, implementation, and support of applications, methodology, and tools. You'll be trained up to perform as an expert on existing and/or new applications specialized around things like Cloud, Blockchain, DevOp and Enterprise Applications. You will help our clients integrate enterprise-wide data for improved performance and efficiency. Leveraging a growth mindset, you're ready and willing to deliver business value, wherever needed. In your role you may be responsible for:

• Working with project teams to advise clients on enterprise-wide data integrations

• Creating ways to better assess analytics, better supporting business decision making

• Work as a team member with client personnel and other IBM teams to identify functional requirements and subsequently working with or in some instances leading others in the identification, justification, and design of the client's solution.

• Participate in a wide range of design activities, from requirements analysis through systems, application and/or process design specification and implementation.

• Gain knowledge across multiple platforms, processes, or architectur.

IBM is a looking for curious talents to learn and grow their competencies in the field of :

Cloud Application Design and Build

You will grow specific skills on the following areas:

• Design and build dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable enterprise applications

• Leverage the best offered by Hyperscalers in terms of native capabilities

• Deeply understand and leverage the Hybrid Cloud and Redhat Openshift as an hybridation technology.

Cloud Application Modernization

You will grow specific skills on the following areas:

• Understand the potential migration paths for applications toward Cloud from legacy technologies

• Leverage the best offered by Hyperscalers in terms of native capabilities

• Deeply understand and leverage the Hybrid Cloud and Redhat Openshift as an hybridation technology.

Cloud Application Design and Methods

You will grow specific skills on the following areas:

• Understand the existing Application context and evolution landascape

• Implement DevSecOps on Hyperscalers and onPrem to normalize and rationalize the ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) leveraging the best Hyperscalers' tools and on Prem open technologies

• Deeply understand and leverage the Hybrid Cloud and Redhat Openshift as an hybridation technology.

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor or Master degree in Computer science and Engineering, Management Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related fields.

• Italian mother-tongue and fluent in English with strong communication skills both in writing and verbally

• Passion for understanding the applications of emerging technologies, and ability to adapt modern approaches and innovative solutions to client problems

• Strong problem-solving capabilities, including the desire to take ambiguous problems and deliver creative and well-structured solutions; as well as applying deep analytical skills to ensure recommendations are informed by data and insights

• A high level resilience with the ability to manage dynamic workloads in an agile environment

• Powerful communication skills, successfully applying verbal and written communications to expose and defend points of view to business leaders and team members

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Exposure to or experience working with cloud native application methodologies and tools is a plus

• Exposure multiple programming technologies (e.g. Javascript, HTML, XML, SQL) is a plus

About Business UnitIBM 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 @ IBMIn 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.

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About IBMIBM'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.

Location StatementIBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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.