**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; 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** As an Application Consultant you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who sells, leads and implements expert services utilizing the breadth of IBM's offerings and technologies. A successful Application Consultant is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions used to solve the most challenging business problems. You will work developing solutions that excel at user experience, style, performance, reliability and scalability to reduce costs and improve profit and shareholder value. Your primary responsibilities include: * Architecting Modern Solutions: Analyze the clients' legacy applications and surrounding systems, defining target application architectures including the new cloud-native core systems, and modernization strategies for our clients. * Collaborative Modernization: Work with clients and IBM teams to identify the most effective modernization approach and help modernize their legacy applications or build a completely new application stack using modern cloud native architectures. * Comprehensive Engagement Across Process Phases: Involvement in every step of the process, from design, development, testing release changes and troubleshoot where necessary, providing a great customer service. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Basic proficiency in Java application development with Spring Boot * Basic knowledge of relational database design and ability to write simple SQL queries * Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON, and HTTP protocols and basic knowledge of Microservices concept * Strong communication skills for client interactions and requirement clarification **Preferred technical and professional experience** * 2 years or above of Spring Boot application experiences in design, development, test and deployment phases * Experience of data migration with leveraging SQL and ETL tools * Familiarity with containerization concept in Docker/Podman; experience of Kubernetes and GCP is a plus * Strong interpersonal skills for client communication and collaborative problem-solving IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.