Application Developer - STUDENT CONVERSION

IBM

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

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

The Java Developer is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and high-performance applications using Java technologies. This role collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative software solutions, ensuring adherence to coding standards, architectural guidelines, and business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and implement Java-based applications, services, and APIs according to business and technical requirements.
  • Develop and maintain scalable microservices and enterprise applications using frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring MVC, or related technologies.
  • Analyze functional and technical requirements and translate them into efficient software solutions.
  • Collaborate with architects, business analysts, product owners, and QA teams throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • Write clean, maintainable, reusable, and well-documented code following industry best practices and coding standards.
  • Develop and execute unit, integration, and performance tests to ensure application quality and reliability.
  • Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application issues, performance bottlenecks, and production incidents.
  • Design and optimize database structures, queries, and integrations with relational and non-relational databases.
  • Integrate applications with external systems through RESTful APIs, messaging solutions, and middleware platforms.
  • Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to improve code quality and team knowledge.
  • Support CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment processes, and DevOps practices.
  • Ensure applications meet security, compliance, and performance requirements.
  • Contribute to system architecture discussions and technical design decisions.
  • Monitor application performance and implement enhancements for scalability and reliability.
  • Stay current with emerging technologies, Java ecosystem updates, and industry best practices.

Required education

Associate's Degree/College Diploma

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • Strong proficiency in Java (Java 8+/11+/17+).
  • Experience with Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and REST API development.
  • Knowledge of SQL and database technologies (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, etc.).
  • Experience with version control systems such as Git.
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
  • Understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, and SOLID principles.
  • Experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD tools and DevOps practices.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, or GCP).
  • Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized environments.
  • Experience with Kafka, IBM MQ, or other messaging platforms.
  • Familiarity with microservices architecture and event-driven systems.
  • Exposure to frontend technologies such as Angular or React.

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Advanced Java Frameworks: Exposure to additional Java frameworks and libraries, enhancing overall development efficiency and application performance.
  • Cloud Computing Knowledge: Familiarity with cloud-based platforms and technologies, allowing for seamless integration with existing infrastructure.
  • Agile Development Methodologies: Experience with agile development practices, promoting iterative and collaborative approaches to software development.

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 500 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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