Business Transformation Consultant-Data Platforms

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Business Transformation Consultant specializing in Data Platforms, you will plan, design, manage, and implement core components of Watson Service Offerings and Digital Insights Platforms, as well as other similar non-IBM solutions. This role involves creating solutions that deliver significant and lasting business improvements for clients. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Design Solution Architecture: Provide expert architecture, design, and implementation support for solutions in virtualized and cloud-based environments, including both hosted and on-premise solutions. • Implement Data Platforms: Plan, manage, and implement core components of Watson Service Offerings and Digital Insights Platforms to deliver significant business improvements for clients. • Support Sales and Delivery: Define solutions and present a point of view for these offerings' services to clients, collaborating with Sales and Delivery teams. • Develop Cloud-Based Solutions: Create solutions in virtualized and cloud-based environments, leveraging expertise in architecture, data lake, design, and implementation. • Drive Business Transformation: Deliver lasting business improvements for clients through the implementation of Data Platforms and Watson Service Offerings.

Required education Bachelor's Degree Preferred education Master's Degree Required technical and professional expertise

•  Project Management & Client Communication: communication, and ensure strong stakeholder alignment across the full project lifecycle. •  Consulting Capability: Ability to proactively identify and address client challenges through structured consulting approaches, leveraging analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to deliver practical and value-driven solutions. • Deep Expertise in Data Platforms: Proven experience in planning, designing, managing, and implementing core components of data platforms, including Watson Service Offerings and Digital Insights Platforms, to deliver significant business improvements for clients. • Experience with Cloud-Based Solutions: Skilled in creating solutions in virtualized and cloud-based environments, including both hosted and on-premise solutions, leveraging expertise in architecture, data lake, design, and implementation. • Proficiency in Solution Architecture: Experienced in providing expert architecture, design, and implementation support for solutions in complex environments, ensuring seamless integration and effective solution delivery. • Experience in Implementation and Integration: Proven ability to plan, manage, and implement core components of data platforms, ensuring successful integration with existing systems and infrastructure. • Strong Understanding of Business Transformation: Experienced in delivering lasting business improvements for clients through the implementation of data platforms and Watson Service Offerings, driving business transformation and growth.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Data Lake Expertise: Deep understanding of data lake architecture and design, with experience in implementing data lakes in virtualized and cloud-based environments, including both hosted and on-premise solutions. • Virtualization Knowledge: Familiarity with virtualization technologies and their application in data platform solutions, ensuring seamless integration and effective solution delivery. • Cloud Solution Development: Experience with developing cloud-based solutions, leveraging expertise in architecture, design, and implementation to deliver significant business improvements for clients.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

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At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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