Data Services Developer Associate (September 2026 - Toronto or Calgary)

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 groundbreaking 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.

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 role and responsibilities As a Developer Associate at IBM, you’ll work with clients to co‑create solutions to real‑world challenges by using best‑practice technologies, tools, techniques, and products to translate system requirements into the design and development of customized systems.

In addition to application development, you may support data‑focused components of client solutions. This includes assisting in the design and maintenance of data models, contributing to data pipeline development, writing SQL queries, and using Python to automate data processing tasks. You may collaborate with data engineers and analysts to improve data quality, reliability, and performance across data systems. Exposure to cloud data platforms, modern data engineering practices, and ETL or ELT workflows is considered valuable in this role.

When working in this abstract, fast‑paced, and continuously changing tech world, resilience, commitment, and curiosity serve as the foundation for success as an IBM Developer.

You will participate in many aspects of the development lifecycle, such as design, data modeling, code implementation, testing, pipeline building, and support. You could also become a contributor within open‑source communities across multiple disciplines.

In your role, you will be supported by mentors and coaches who will encourage you to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground‑breaking impact for the wider business, our external clients, and their customers. Our culture of flexibility and freedom supports long‑term career growth and continuous learning in an environment that highlights your unique skills and experience.

This position resides in Toronto/Calgary and commences in September 2026. It is mandatory that all applicants have completed full‑time studies at a post‑secondary institution. Please note that MBA and PHD Candidates are not eligible for this program.

Required technical and professional expertise

Experience or coursework with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, or other cloud platforms

Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning concepts in cloud or on‑premises environments

Understanding of DevSecOps and Agile methods

Ability to communicate complex situations clearly and simply

Initiative to actively seek new knowledge and expand skills

Python programming, including use in data processing or automation

SQL skills for querying, transforming, and modeling data

Optional exposure to data engineering tools or concepts such as data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and data modeling techniques

Experience with or knowledge of API development, containers, and version control

Experience with or exposure to Java, JavaScript, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes

Git or other version control systems

Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins

Optional familiarity

Understanding of event‑driven systems such as Kafka or Flink

Knowledge of Agile practices such as Scrum, User Stories, Backlog Management, Use Cases, Requirements gathering, and tools such as JIRA and Confluence

Snowflake, Databricks, or similar modern data platforms is considered an asset

Preferred technical and professional experience

Exposure to or interest in Design Thinking and Agile development methodology

A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view

Teamwork, software development

Agile, Scrum, User Stories, Product Backlog, Roadmap, Use Cases, Requirements, JIRA, Confluence

Coding, strong communications

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.

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