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Application Consultant

AT IBM
IBM

Application Consultant

Winchester, United Kingdom

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.

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IBM Application Consultants work directly with our clients on key initiatives. You will have the opportunity to build an in-depth understanding of their business issues and implement organizational strategies that drive adoption of change. We are looking for experts who can build credibility and trust with our clients and provide knowledge that addresses individual and unique business needs.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As an Application Consultant you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who sells, leads and implements expert services utilizing the breadth of IBM's offerings and technologies. A successful Consultant is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions used to solve the most challenging business problems.

You will work developing solutions that excel at user experience, style, performance, reliability and scalability to reduce costs and improve profit and shareholder value.

In IBM Consulting, you'll serve as a leader in defining solutions for clients. You'll be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation.

You'll collaborate with client stakeholders and internal partners to understand the business problem and requirements, constraints of the system and concerns of the various stakeholders to systematically transform detailed solutions (architectures) for the client.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
People Leadership:
Strong skills in people management and technical team leadership. Responsibility for a large team of Engineers with strong emphasis on upskilling and empowering the team. Includes mentoring and coaching of both junior and senior developers, supporting their career progression and ambitions to progress to tech leadership roles and focussing on those underperforming through coaching.

Core Skills:
Has in depth experience of cloud engineering, application engineering and AI strategy with strong potential in system architecture and tech strategy. Experienced in leading end-to-end client engagements, from initial consultation and requirements gathering to final deployment and support. Has the Government Industry silver badge, AWS Developer Associate certification and AI Certification and has completed the Architectural Thinking foundation training

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Languages: Javascript, HTML/CSS, Java, postgresSQL, Python, Arcade
  • Frameworks/toolkits: Vuejs/React, Cypress, Cucumber/Gherkin, ESRI/ArcGIS
  • Cloud: AWS, Azure, Firebase, IBM Cloud
  • AI: WatsonX, prompt engineering
  • Architecture: Designing and delivering solutions, Technical documentation
  • Design: User experience & UI Design

Client-provided location(s): Hursley, Winchester SO21, UK
Job ID: IBM-21266698
Employment Type: Full Time

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