Developer Intern (January – 8 months) – IBM Consulting

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; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to 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 resulting 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
This position resides in Toronto and is an 8-month work term commencing in January 2025. It is mandatory that all applicants are enrolled in full-time studies at a post-secondary institution and returning to full-time studies upon completion of the work-term.

• Participate on a consulting project or initiative and experience first-hand how we help transform their business

• Focus on our clients’ technical and business needs to co-create solutions that add value

• Work collaboratively to deliver innovative solutions for clients

• Develop an understanding of our client’s future state goals and processes, then define the steps needed and leading technologies to help turn their goals into reality

• Learn about a client’s industry, tackle new challenges, and learn about how their business and technology intersect.

• Join our IBM North America intern community and meet other IBMers during networking events, special team events and career development activities

At IBM, we prioritize ongoing learning, development of technical and core skills, and investing in your personal growth, all grounded in a culture of coaching and mentorship – you’ll get exposure to all that and more as an intern.

As a Developer Intern at IBM, you’ll work with clients to co-create solutions to major real-world challenges by using best practice technologies, tools, techniques, and products to translate system requirements into the design and development of customized systems. In your role, you will be responsible for:

• Working across system architecture to design, develop, and support high quality, scalable products and interfaces for our clients

• Employing IBM’s Design Thinking to create products that provide a great user experience along with high performance, security, quality, and stability

• Working with a variety of databases (SQL, Postgres, DB2, MongoDB), operating systems (Linux, Windows, iOS, Android), and modern UI frameworks (Backbone.js, AngularJS, React, Ember.js, Bootstrap, and jQuery)

• Creating everything from mockups and UI components to algorithms and data structures as you deliver a viable product

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• AWS, Azure, Google, IBM or other cloud , Artficial Intelligence or Machine Learning in any cloud and on-premise enterprise, knowledge or experience with DevSecOps and Agile methods

• Ability to communicate complex situations clearly and simply by listening actively and conveying difficult messages in a positive manner

• Initiative to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills

• Must be eligible to work 8 months starting in January 2025

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Exposure or interest in Design Thinking and Agile development methodology

• AWS, Azure, Google, IBM or other cloud , Artficial Intelligence or Machine Learning in any cloud and on-premise enterprise, knowledge or experience with DevSecOps and Agile methods

• A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view