Senior Application Developer

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 Senior Application Developer at IBM, you’ll provide technical support and maintenance by applying knowledge of application functionality and related technical design / interfaces with other systems / applications, responsible for running applications in a trouble‑free manner, knowledge of integrated development and test environments, tools, infrastructure and managed support services to support complex solutions. You will also be responsible for developing a strong understanding of the solutions and their capabilities to be able to design, build, and test new capabilities into existing applications and systems.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. To be eligible for employment in this role, you must be a Canadian citizen or Canadian Permanent Resident. If you hold dual or third nationality, in addition to being either a Canadian citizen or Canadian Permanent Resident, the nationality must be from one of the below approved countries to be eligible for employment in this role : Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

Candidates must have or be eligible to obtain :

Secret Clearance issued by the Government of Canada. Note that candidates without this clearance must recognize that it will take up to six months to obtain it if they have Canadian citizenship.

NATO and Controlled Goods Clearances will be required once Secret Clearance is proven / obtained.

Required education

Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred education

Master’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Located in Ottawa, ON (all work will be done on site at the IBM office)

8 years of Low‑Level Programming and embedded Systems : programming languages C / C++; Python, bitwise operations and memory management, device drivers & firmware development

Networking and communications protocols, industrial and avionics protocols.

Integration and interoperability bridging old and new technologies, middleware development (API gateways, event brokers, service mesh, event mesh).

Be able to work with the Solution Architect to plan and execute the work required (features, new capabilities) by leading a team of developers and testers.

Takes the initiative to make informed decisions regarding project direction, resource allocation, and timelines with limited supervision.

Streamlines complex workflows by simplifying task management and improving interdepartmental coordination, leading to faster project completion.

Excellent verbal, written communication and Quality control

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience in the Defence Industry

Contributed to the evaluation of solutions developed by fellow team members or third parties.

Experience in leading and mentoring junior developers in best practices and design pattens.

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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship. For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Job Title

Senior Application Developer

Job ID

85017

City / Township / Village

State / Province

Country

Canada

Work arrangement

Onsite

Area of work

Infrastructure & Technology

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

112,200.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

158,400.00

Position type

Professional

No Travel

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable / sales incentive based position?

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