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 an Associate SAP AI Platform Consultant, you will support clients in establishing the technology platforms required to develop, deploy and operate AI solutions within SAP and enterprise environments. Working alongside AI Architects, SAP consultants, data engineers, AI orchestration consultants and business stakeholders, you will contribute to the technical foundations that enable Agentic AI capabilities.

Key responsibilities include supporting platform design workshops, documenting technical requirements, assisting with the configuration of AI and integration services, helping develop low-code or pro-code AI solution components, and supporting secure and scalable AI platform implementation. You will help build and test AI applications, agent frameworks, orchestration services, integrations, knowledge retrieval capabilities and business context services. You will also contribute to demonstrations, proofs of concept, platform accelerators, proposals and the continual improvement of IBM methods and reusable assets.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Please prepare a cover letter for this role and explain why you are a good fit for this role and your experience and interest in AI

• Demonstrated interest in AI platforms, software development, integration technologies and enterprise architecture.
• Understanding of AI solution architecture, application development and/or systems integration concepts.
• Basic understanding of APIs, web services, integration concepts, data platforms or data product development.
• Awareness of Generative AI, AI assistants, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and knowledge grounding concepts.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and technical communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively within client-facing consulting teams.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn new technologies, consulting methods and enterprise platform delivery practices.
• Bachelor's degree in technical disciplines such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Data Science, Engineering or a related discipline.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Candidates who have any of the following technical skills or experiences will be highly desirable.

• Exposure to SAP technologies such as SAP Integration Suite, SAP AI Core, SAP Generative AI Hub, Joule or Business Data Cloud, BTP.
• Basic experience with at least one modern programming language such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java or ABAP through university, internships or personal projects.
• University, internship or project experience developing AI applications, assistants, agents, orchestration workflows or conversational solutions.
• Familiarity with AI development frameworks, large language models, knowledge graphs, MCP concepts, APIs or enterprise integration services.
• Exposure to application development frameworks, low-code platforms or full-stack development approaches.
• Awareness of DevOps, platform operations, security, testing and AI governance practices.
• Understanding of enterprise data platforms, analytics solutions or data integration patterns.
• Certifications, course work or experience in Gen AI, Cloud, Data, Apps Dev or Integration are advantageous.
• Internship, project or consulting experience involving AI, enterprise application implementation, platform engineering, integration or technology transformation initiatives.
• Understanding of Enterprise Design Thinking methodologies.

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

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

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.

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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