Mid-Level Salesforce Consultant

IBM
IBM

Sales & Business Development

McLean, VA, USA · Belgium

Posted on Oct 3, 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.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for a Salesforce Consultant with solid experience in Salesforce development and customization, particularly with Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), integrations, and Financial Services Cloud (FSC).

You will be responsible for developing Salesforce solutions, integrating Salesforce with external systems, and supporting the evolution of the platform, following development best practices, security standards, and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a Salesforce Consulting and Development professional, participating in the analysis, design, development, evolution, and support of Salesforce solutions, with a strong focus on Financial Services Cloud (FSC), Apex, and Lightning Web Components (LWC).
  • Understand and analyze functional and technical requirements together with business and technology teams.
  • Understand Financial Services Cloud (FSC) processes and functionalities and translate business needs into Salesforce solutions.
  • Participate in functional and technical refinements, contributing to solution definition.
  • Assess the functional and technical impacts of proposed solutions.
  • Develop and customize solutions using Apex, LWC, and other Salesforce platform capabilities.
  • Support Salesforce solution design and architecture decisions.
  • Develop and work on integrations between Salesforce and external systems.
  • Create and maintain functional and technical documentation for solutions.
  • Perform analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution of functional and technical issues.
  • Develop solutions following Salesforce best practices, development standards, and platform limits.
  • Collaborate with QA, architecture, development, and business teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
  • Work in a Scrum/Kanban environment, participating in ceremonies, refinements, and delivery tracking.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Professional Experience

  • Professional experience in Salesforce development using Apex and Lightning Framework.

  • Experience with Lightning Web Components (LWC).

  • Experience with Salesforce integrations.

Salesforce Development

  • Apex Classes

  • Triggers

  • Batch Apex

  • Queueable

  • Schedulable

  • LWC (Lightning Web Components)

  • SOQL / SOSL

  • Test Classes

  • Governor Limits

Salesforce Core

  • Flows

  • Security Model

  • Sharing Rules

  • Record Types

  • Permission Sets

  • Approval Processes

Integrations

  • REST APIs

  • SOAP APIs

  • Postman

  • JSON / XML

  • OAuth Authentication

  • Asynchronous Integration

DevOps

  • Git

  • Azure DevOps / GitHub

  • CI/CD

  • Salesforce DX

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Waterfall Methodology Familiarity: Exposure to Waterfall methodology, allowing for the application of this approach to ensure a smooth software development lifecycle.
  • Experience with Financial Services Cloud (FSC) is desirable.

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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