[2026 IBM Consulting Associates] Business Transformation Consultant - Data Platforms
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 responsibilitiesAs 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 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.
• Deliver Client Solutions: Create solutions that meet client needs, leveraging expertise in architecture, data lake, design, implementation, Watson Solutions, virtualization, and cloud.
• Manage Solution Delivery: Ensure successful implementation of solutions, working closely with clients and internal stakeholders.
Required education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise• Exposure to Data Platform Design: Experience working with data platforms, including data lakes, to design and implement solutions that deliver business improvements for clients.
• Virtualization and Cloud Expertise: Exposure to virtualized and cloud-based environments, including both hosted and on-premise solutions, to provide expert architecture, design, and implementation support.
• Architecture and Implementation: Experience working with solution architecture, design, and implementation, leveraging expertise in Watson Solutions, virtualization, and cloud.
• Solution Delivery Experience: Exposure to managing solution delivery, ensuring successful implementation of solutions, and working closely with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Technical Solution Development: Experience working with technical solutions, creating solutions that meet client needs, and leveraging expertise in architecture, data lake, design, implementation, Watson Solutions, virtualization, and cloud.
Preferred technical and professional experience• Data Lake Design Knowledge: Exposure to designing and implementing data lakes to deliver business improvements for clients, including data platform design and solution architecture.
• Cloud-Based Solution Expertise: Experience working with virtualized and cloud-based environments, including both hosted and on-premise solutions, to provide expert architecture, design, and implementation support.
• Technical Solution Development: Exposure to creating solutions that meet client needs, leveraging expertise in architecture, data lake, design, implementation, Watson Solutions, virtualization, and cloud.
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