A career in IBM Consulting is rooted in 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.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation for 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 that result 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

At IBM, we know technology. But technology is only as good as the results it delivers. Are you interested and adept in application development methodology and tools? The IBM Client Innovation Centre (CIC): Monroe occupies a unique position in the IT marketplace - at the intersection of business and technology.

In this role, you'll work in our IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. These delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

As a member of our team, you will help IBM clients solve some of their most challenging business problems, capitalize on market opportunities and achieve real value in today's tough economy.

We're looking for passionate, original thinkers who want to drive progress, grow their network, and further their careers. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning, who believes no problem is too big to solve, and who wants to unleash their potential, an Associate role is for you.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Have an Associate's Degree, College Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, or Master's Degree by date of employment
• Be willing and able to live and work in Monroe, with some travel anticipated
• Have a sense of urgency in satisfying project deliverables for client success
• Required Professional and Technical Expertise:
• You have the ability to work in an Agile, collaborative environment
• You have an understanding of what user requirements are
• You have exposure to capturing/documenting user requirements
• You have an understanding of prioritizing requirements based on importance and resource constraints (i.e. time, schedule, scope, and/or cost)
• You have an understanding of the software development life cycle
• Good communication skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• You have exposure to conveying/translating user requirements to technical requirements for developers

• Experience with capturing and documenting current state and future state of an application or system

• Experience with documenting what needs to be true to get from current state to future state

• Experience with kanban boards and user stories

• Experience with converting user requirements to agile user stories