Federal Associate Developer

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.

As an Associate Application Developer within Federal, 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 may be responsible for: 

• Working across the entire system architecture to design, develop, and support high quality, scalable products and interfaces for our clients
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and define technical specifications for generative AI projects
• 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 relational 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

These positions are anticipated to start in 2025. We have positions open in the following locations: 

• Washington DC Metro Area
• Houston, TX

Candidates must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Federal security clearance while in IBM Consulting-Federal. 
 

The below requirements are guidelines. If you have transferable skills, we encourage you to apply for this role. 

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Federal security clearance while in IBM Consulting-Federal. 
• Demonstrated programming proficiency and experience with 1 of the following (Java, C++, Python, Scala, R, SAS, SQL, Hadoop, HTML, SPSS, VBA, Tableau, Spark, Angular, ReactJS), as well as systems design/development, and information technology course work
• Exposure to web services, API and Java application frameworks such as Springboot
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solution
• Familiarity with generative AI modeling, ethics, and methodologies
• Familiarity with Microservices architecture, infrastructure concepts and cloud platforms AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud
• Up to 100% travel

• Have flexibility to work across architecture - building both front end and backend
• Help maintain and improve code quality, organization, and automatization
• Communicate with stakeholders on technical issues Design and code servers, services, applications and databases on platforms such as PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle that are reusable, scalable and meet critical architecture goals.
• Proficiency in working with Git repositories for version control and collaborative development