Application Consultant-Application Modernization

IBM

IBM

Tokyo, Japan · Taipei City, Taiwan

Posted on Jun 4, 2026
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 Application Consultant specializing in Application Modernization, you play a pivotal role in guiding organizations through the transformation of legacy applications into modern, agile, and cloud-ready solutions. This role requires blending technical expertise with business acumen to assess current environments, define modernization strategies, and support implementation efforts that align with enterprise goals. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Collaborate with Stakeholders: Collaborate with stakeholders to assess legacy systems and identify modernization opportunities, recommending modernization approaches such as rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, or rebuilding based on business and technical requirements. • Support Cloud-Native Design: Support the design and implementation of cloud-native architectures across platforms like AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud, advising on the adoption of containerization, microservices, and API-driven development to enhance scalability and maintainability. • Integrate AI Capabilities: Assist in integrating generative AI capabilities into modernized applications, providing guidance on data migration strategies, testing governance, and DevOps practices to ensure smooth transitions. • Align Business and Technical Solutions: Work closely with architects and developers to ensure alignment between business needs and technical solutions, leveraging modernization methodologies and tools to accelerate transformation.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

l Bachelor degree or above in Engineering, Information Technology, Business or other related fields

l At least 4 years or above Business Analyst or System Analyst working experience in banking/finance industry

l Consulting skills, ability to work directly with clients

l Good communication and interpersonal skills

l Fluent in Chinese reading, listening, writing, and speaking/fluent in English reading and writing

Preferred technical and professional experience

l Strong knowledge and project experience in core-banking system

l Experience in mainstream application framework, open source packages

l Working level in English speaking

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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