Intermediate Application Developer

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.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Intermediate Application Developer at IBM, you’ll provide technical support and maintenance by applying knowledge of application functionality and related technical design/interfaces with other systems/applications, responsible for running applications in a trouble-free manner, knowledge of integrated development and test environments, tools, infrastructure, and managed support services to support complex solutions. You will also be responsible for developing a strong understanding of the solutions and their capabilities to be able to design, build, and test new capabilities into existing applications and systems.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. To be eligible for employment in this role, you must be a Canadian citizen or Canadian Permanent Resident. If you hold dual or third nationality, in addition to being a Canadian citizen or Canadian Permanent Resident, the nationality must be from one of the below approved countries to be eligible for employment in this role: Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, United Kingdom, United States.

Candidate requirements

Candidates must have or be eligible to obtain:

• Secret Clearance issued by the Government of Canada. Note that candidates without this clearance must recognize that it will take up to six months to obtain it if they have Canadian citizenship.
• NATO and Controlled Goods Clearances will be required once Secret Clearance is proven/obtained.

Required education

Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred education

Master’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 5 years of Low-Level Programming and embedded Systems: programming languages C/C++; Python, bitwise operations and memory management, device drivers & firmware development
• Networking and communications protocols, industrial and avionics protocols.
• Integration and interoperability bridging old and new technologies, middleware development (API gateways, event brokers, service mesh, event mesh).
• Lead small teams, managing routine activities and guide less experienced team members.
• Strong sense of initiative and ability to prioritize tasks.
• Clearly document solutions that can then be used to support the test team.
• Excellent verbal, written communication and Quality control.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience in the Defence Industry.
• Contributed to the evaluation of solutions developed by fellow team members or third parties.