Associate Application Consultant - Microsoft 2027

About the role

As an Associate 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, DevOp, Enterprise Applications, and Mobile. 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 architectures

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 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.
• Willingness to travel up to 100%

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Preferred Majors: Computer Science, MIS/IT, Computer Engineering, Data Science, SW Engineering, or related fields.
• Exposure to or experience working with cloud native application methodologies and tools is a plus.
• Exposure to multiple programming technologies (e.g. Javascript, HTML, XML, SQL) is a plus.
• Preferred Certifications: Azure Foundational (Cloud or AI Associate); Associate, Professional, or Specialty (Aspirational) in-progress certifications are fine.
• Skills/Tech: Programming fundamentals (.NET/ASP.NET, C#, Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.); SQL Basics; networking basics, Terraform/CloudFormation, Linux fundamentals
• Exposure to cloud and AI concepts such as Azure services, data platforms, security, and AI models through coursework, labs, internships, or personal projects, with a willingness to keep learning.
• Exposure to tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, or similar AI assistants to research write, analyze, and improve productivity, while applying critical thinking and validation.

Preferred Education: Bachelor's Degree