At IBM Global Business Services - Public Services Sector, we serve government, education, and state and local clients through our Digital, Cloud Applications Innovation, and Enterprise Applications service lines. Through cutting-edge service offerings, we deliver real business value by:

• Bringing together the world’s largest consulting practice with industry-leading research capability.
• Enriching business consulting with advanced research, analytics, and technology.
• Teaming on all phases of engagement to plan, build, and implement advanced business solutions.
• Establishing new, flexible, and iterative approaches that only IBM can offer through our unique combination of skills, experience, and capabilities.
• Leveraging the proven roadmaps and frameworks we have developed across our 18 industries.
• Applying IBM's global expertise and local capabilities through our unique global delivery network combined with our teams in over 170 countries.
• Providing our clients with an integrated approach to business design and execution, turning strategies into actions.

These strengths applied to business issues and opportunities give our clients not only the ability to anticipate change, but also take advantage of new possibilities in technology. Join us and become a part of our team as we move our clients from excellence to preeminence in their industry.

What will you do as an IBM GBS Entry-level Enterprise Applications Consultant?

As an entry-level Enterprise Applications Consultant, you will have the opportunity to join Consulting by Degrees (CbD) - our world-class apprenticeship program designed to groom top talent entry-level consultants into tomorrow’s leaders. You will join our Enterprise Applications service area and develop your expertise in the SAP, Oracle or Microsoft solution suite, and help our clients integrate enterprise-wide data for improved performance and efficiency. You will help clients digitally reinvent operations via new mobile and cognitive technologies creating fluid value chains. New digital technologies along with cloud, mobile, analytics and cognitive computing are changing how we engage and work with one another.

Upon joining our Enterprise Applications service area, you will also become skilled in understanding customer requirements and business objectives in multiple industries. You will work alongside practitioners in developing business strategies and providing advice to clients using technology to achieve their business goals. You will help support new technology implementations while utilizing your analytical skills and problem-solving abilities to develop solutions that make our clients leaders in their industries.

As a CbDer you will be supported by program managers, peer buddies, project managers, and extensive in-person training. Each CbDer is aligned to a practice where they develop subject matter expertise in one or more industries as they work on multiple projects during the two-year program. CbDers receive a collaborative, challenging, and transformative experience that will help make you tomorrow’s leader.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited 4-year institution coupled with internship/work and/or project experience which will provide the analytical and technical acumen that translates to an entry level consulting role.
• Preferred Degree/Majors: Business (i.e.: Finance/Human Resources), Industrial Engineering, Operations/Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Computer/Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Applied Sciences or any other major that is conducive to a career in management consulting.
• A 3.2 minimum GPA is preferred.

Required qualifications:

• Willingness and ability to travel 4 days a week (home on weekends – based on project requirements) but up to 100% travel if business and client needs require.Most projects are local to the D.C. Metro Area.
• Relocation to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area; limited opportunities available in the Atlanta, GA metropolitan area
• U.S. Citizenship
• Ability to obtain a security clearance, if needed

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 50 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.