Experienced professionals

Our business is growing and we have exceptional opportunities for experienced professionals throughout IBM Global Business Services (GBS). Whether you’re an individual contributor or large-scale project leader, a business process or technical professional, a deep industry specialist or someone who has worked across industries, explore opportunities with IBM Global Business Services. We’re looking for talented individuals who have the experience, know-how and desire to help global leaders solve their most-challenging business problems.

• Top four reasons you should join us

  Reason #1: Change the way the world works

  It’s possible, when you join the world’s largest IT consultancy. Technology is making entire business ecosystems smarter, and opening up new opportunities. Enjoy a challenge? Come make a difference in some of the world’s most pressing issues today including climate change, energy production, traffic congestion and health care - to name a few.

  At IBM, you can turn your expertise and vision into value for the world’s leading clients – and create a prestigious portfolio of accomplishments while you’re at it. Through our unique global delivery network, IBM offers global expertise coupled with a deep understanding of local capabilities, markets and cultures. Teams in over 170 countries provide our clients with an integrated approach to business design and execution that turns strategies into actions.

  Interested in applying your expertise in Cloud Computing or Business Analytics Optimization (BAO) to client business issues? Then we’re interested in you.

  There’s more:

  • IBM is building a global workforce to address global opportunities
    • Sixty-five percent of our workforce is outside the U.S.
    • Sixty-five percent of our revenue is from outside the U.S. (versus 47% for the average S&P 500 company).
    • Business from the developing “BRIC” economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China are expected to account for sixty percent of IBM’s revenue growth over the next five years.
  • IBM continues to pave the way to a “Smarter Planet” (www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/) through our global initiative by the same name, helping clients in, among other places:
    • New York – IBM worked with the New York Police Department to create the New York City Real Time Crime Center, a data warehouse that utilizes sophisticated analytics and search capabilities to make connections across multiple large-scale databases. Critical data that once took police officers days to get, now takes minutes to receive.
    • Malta – IBM’s Smart Grid implementation integrates both Malta’s water and power systems to allow quick identification of water leaks and electricity losses throughout the country, enabling utilities to more intelligently plan their investments, reduce inefficiency, set variable rates, and reward customers who consume less energy and water. That also reduces Malta’s dependency on foreign fuel oil.
    • Japan – IBM Application Services helped SBI Sumishin Net Bank, Japan's first fully online bank, to implement an advanced SOA-based core banking solution called Rapid Enterprise Renovation for Financial Services Systems. Now, SBI conducts real-time interaction with the e-trade securities system, handling eight different currencies as well as account settlement service in dollars (a first for a Japanese bank).

  Reason #2: Be a true leader

  IBM builds and nurtures leaders. In 2009, Fortune magazine ranked IBM as the best company for leaders. IBM Global Business Services (or GBS) leads the market in consulting and application services. Here, you can cultivate your expertise through award-winning, customized leadership training that is tailored to your professional development priorities, be it consulting, sales, project management or technical skills.

  There’s more:

  • Join a world leader. IBM Global Business Services accolades include:
    • Ranked as top IT consulting provider worldwide for the second consecutive year. [Source: July 2009, IDC # 219254, “Worldwide and U.S. IT Consulting 2008 Vendor Shares: IDC's Top 10 Vendors for 2008,” by Ali Zaidi.]
    • Ranked by IDC as the worldwide leader in the application management services (AMS) market, based on combined bundled and discrete services revenue in 2008. [Source: July 2009, IDC #219272, " Expanding the Application Outsourcing Lens: 2008 Integrated and Discrete Views,” by Rona Shuchat]

  Reason #3: Work with the best and brightest

  IBMers represent some of the most extraordinary, sophisticated and insightful people from around the world. Nobel Prize winners, Turing Award recipients, sales gurus, award-winning consultants, software specialists and industry experts are among the company’s nearly 400,000 employees. It’s a great opportunity to develop a diverse and esteemed international network of colleagues – connections that will propel your career for a lifetime.

  There’s more:

  • Jim Bramante, former GBS North America Leader, and current IBM Southwest Europe General Manager, was named one of Consulting Magazine’s “Top 25 Consultants in 2009,” and featured as the publication’s cover image.
  • Consulting Magazine also named GBS Partner Robin Tomlin one of eight “2009 Women Leaders in Consulting” in client service.
  • IBM has more than thirteen women in the women in Technology international (WITI) Hall of Fame.

  Join more than just a consulting firm

  Consulting is just one of the many areas in which IBM excels. Our business diversity offers many benefits, including access to resources that you won't find anywhere else. We utilize our breadth of expertise in advanced research, business analytics, thought leadership and technology, to add real value to our business consulting engagements. IBM consultants often work across different disciplines, affording opportunities to master new skills and move into new challenges.

  At IBM, innovation happens in every part of the organization. IBM continues to be the patent leader in the United States for the 17th straight year, with a recorded 4,914 patents to date.

  There’s more:

  • GBS leaders have moved to key roles in other IBM geographies and business units.
    • Ginni Rometty, Senior VP, Global Sales & Distribution (S&D)
    • Jim Bramante, General Manager, IBM Southwest Europe S&D
    • Bridget Van Kralingen, General Manager, North America S&D
  • IBM spends $6 billion annually on research and development, including services research.
  • IBM Global Financing, the company’s lending and leasing business segment, is the world's largest IT financier with total assets of $36 billion. The business division delivers financial services to 125,000 customers in more than 55 countries.

  Top Ranking:

  • IBM is ranked as #4 in the “2009 AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25.” [Source: AMR Press Release: Scottsdale, Arizona - May 28, 2009: “AMR Research Releases Its 2009 Supply Chain Top 25”]
  • IBM is positioned in the “Leaders Quadrants” of Gartner, Inc.’s Magic Quadrants for SAP and Oracle Outsourcing, North America. Source: Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for SAP Outsourcing, North America," Ben Pring, November 10, 2009 and Gartner, Inc., “"Magic Quadrant for Oracle Outsourcing, North America," Ben Pring, November 10, 2009]
  • IBM is positioned as a leader within Forrester's May 2009 NA and EMEA Waves on SOA Systems Integrators. [Source: “The Forrester WaveTM: North American SOA Systems Integrators, Q2 2009," Forrester Research, Inc., May 5, 2009 and "The Forrester WaveTM: EMEA SOA Systems Integrators]