(2025 Summer Intern) Associate Application Consultant

Introduction

During your internship, you can enhance your knowledge and gain professional experience by working on client projects. This role provides an exceptional opportunity to build a compelling portfolio, acquire new skills, gain insights into diverse industries, and embrace novel challenges for your future career.

At IBM, we prioritize continuous learning, skill development, and personal growth within a culture of coaching and mentorship. As an intern, you'll experience this culture and have the opportunity to advance to our associate program based on results and performance.

Your Role And Responsibilities

Work experiences you could be exposed to:

Team Collaboration and Innovation: Join cross functional teams to understand requirements and define technical specs for various projects, fostering collaboration innovation.

Precision in Documentation: Document technical specifications and design decisions with clarity ensuring effective communication within the team and stakeholders.

Code Excellence: develop scalable reusable code and champion code review processes/tools to uphold top notch code quality.

Full Stack Versatility: Engage in full stack system development, utilizing design thinking to create products that prioritize user experience, performance, security, quality, and stability. Gain exposure to a diverse tech stack including databases, operating systems, cloud providers, and modern UI frameworks, contributing to the entire product delivery life cycle.

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

We are looking for graduate/undergraduate students who are expected to graduate in 2026, and equipped with below expertise:

• Strong Interpersonal skills that enhance collaboration and relationship building, while also managing dynamic workloads in an agile environment
• Have initiative and passion to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills while embracing a growth mindset to assimilate diverse viewpoints
• Demonstrate leadership experience and ability to communicate effectively through active listening; while also be willing to adapt and have a readiness to take ownership of tasks and challenges.
• Experience with 1 of the following (Java, C++, Python, Scala, R, SAS, SQL, HTML, SPSS, VBA, Tableau, etc.), as well as systems design/development, hyperscale platforms, and information technology world
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Knowledge or interested in database development, as well as a curiosity in a wide range of cloud platforms, web markup languages, deploying applications with container technology, and generative AI.
• Exposure to web services, API, and multiple Java application frameworks highly desired.
• Knowledge or interest in best practices around design patterns, performance tuning, automated and unit testing.

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