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IBM

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California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Mar 27, 2026
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 the Salesforce Ecosystem.

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 ground breaking 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.

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

As a Salesforce Consultant or Developer at IBM, you will bridge the gap between complex business strategy and high-performance technical execution. You will design, develop, and integrate custom Salesforce solutions using Declarative tools, Apex, LWC, and modern integration patterns to solve the most pressing challenges for global visionaries. Beyond writing clean, scalable code, you will act as a technical advisor—guiding clients from initial discovery and business analysis through to system architecture, Agile development, and successful user adoption. In this role, you are empowered to challenge legacy thinking and leverage IBM’s elite partner ecosystem to build 'groundbreaking' CRM platforms that drive measurable profit and shareholder value. Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Assist with Solution Design: Learn to develop tailored solutions to address clients' business needs by understanding their unique challenges and leveraging Salesforce's extensive offerings.
  • Support System Testing: Participate in executing system testing, user acceptance, and change management to ensure a successful implementation and long-term user adoption.
  • Engage in Client-Facing Activities: Observe and learn from interactions with clients to understand their needs and preferences.
  • Explore Methodologies: Familiarize yourself with Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies to support a smooth software development lifecycle.
  • Contribute to Training Programs: Assist with developing and delivering training programs to ensure successful user adoption.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Bachelor’s or expected Master's degree (in Mathematics, Computer science, Information Technology, Engineering)

  • Attitude and interest in an IT Engineer/ Specialist / Consultant career
  • Adaptability, Communication, Creative, Problem Solving, Taking Ownership, Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Ability to make decisions, take on responsibilities and have the ability to adapt, change and re-prioritize your plans in a dynamic and fast paced environment
  • English is a must
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Business Analysis: Act as a bridge between business objectives and technical execution, translating complex requirements into scalable solutions.
  • Creative Problem Solving: consultant’s mindset to challenge legacy processes and design innovative, data-driven solutions.
  • Integration Knowledge: Exposure to integrating CRM solutions with other systems and applications is beneficial. Familiarity with APIs, data migration, and integration tools can be an asset in this role.
  • Salesforce Features: Interest in exploring advanced Salesforce features, such as Einstein, Agentforce, Salesforce Portals, or Salesforce CPQ, can be advantageous in designing and implementing tailored solutions.
  • DevOps: Additional exposure to development methodologies, such as Kanban or Lean, can help ensure a smooth software development lifecycle.

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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

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