Platform Developer

IBM

IBM

Software Engineering

Toronto, ON, Canada

Posted on Apr 11, 2026
Introduction

At IBM Global Sales, we bring together innovation, collaboration, and expertise to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. Working across industries and geographies, you’ll partner with colleagues, clients, and partners to co-create solutions that drive digital transformation and lasting impact. Success in Global Sales is built on curiosity, empathy, and collaboration. You’ll connect technical understanding with strong people skills, building trusted relationships and shaping solutions that improve business and society. With world-class onboarding, continuous learning, and a supportive culture, IBM offers the tools and opportunities to grow your career. Join us and be part of a global team that’s passionate about driving innovation and making a difference.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Platform Developer on the Client Engineering team you'll be a key player in a multi-disciplinary team made up of Architects, AI Specialists and Designers that deliver co-creation of Proofs of Value (PoV) jointly with our client's to demonstrate the business impact of IBM’s Automation, Data/AI and Hybrid Cloud solutions.

Your primary responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

  • Solution and Technical Proof Points Expertise - contribute to the design of viable client solutions by leveraging IBM product capabilities and deliver a technical proof point that removes technical inhibitors and gains the client's confidence of how IBM's innovative automation, data and hybrid cloud products and solutions can meet their business needs and accelerate their transformation.
  • Cloud Expertise Leverage contemporary hybrid cloud skills (e.g,. AI, analytics, DevOps, DevSecOps, IaC, security, networking, and storage) with deep industry expertise and understanding of your clients' businesses to help identify opportunities where IBM’s Technology can accelerate customers’ success. Clearly articulate the related architecture, technology, and solution guidance across hybrid multi-cloud platforms define how IBM's solutions can fit within their target environment to ease path to deployment.
  • Value Communication: Define, demonstrate and communicate the differentiated value of IBM's technology both technically and commercially.
  • Solution Support: identifying requirements to make technical decisions that impact the business case. Support the solutions architecture plan and be a hands-on "builder" in client-facing engagements. Advise on solution architecture to align with platform best practices and focus on our clients’ target environment to ease transition to deployment.
  • Transition to Deployment: Provide a seamless transition to our clients by transitioning platform assets and information.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

  • Confidence to engage customers and to work directly with them to co-create an elevated technical experience to showcase IBM's Automation, Data/AI and Hybrid Cloud solutions can meet their specific business needs.
  • Motivation to achieve sales, business objectives and high client satisfaction.
  • Strong analytic, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills combined with an agile process.
  • Embrace curiosity and a growth mindset.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Experience in delivering customer-facing technical solutions in automation or data domain (e.g., identifying requirements to meet the clients' business needs, defining the architecture, delivery of complex application modernization solutions).
  • Experienced in participating in technical or architecture discussions with client's and ability to connect them to the customers’ business challenges and context.
  • Working knowledge in at least one common cloud native programming language (Java, Python, HCL, Rust, Ansible, or language in similar discipline.)
  • Strong team collaboration and ability to navigate different communication styles.
  • Excellent communication skills: Possess verbal, written, and interpersonal skills that are engaging, compelling and influential.
  • Growth mindset, motivated to work with clients, able to balance multiple priorities and can lead projects independently.
  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent technical degree/experience

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience in being hands-on with automation software, platforms and products. Examples includes application development, application integration, network management, IT automation and observability, and/or asset lifecycle management
  • Experience in deploying and operating solutions on cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or IBM Cloud, and their respective services, including compute, storage, and networking.
  • Relevant technical certifications (e.. CNCF, AWS, IBM Cloud, Azure, Google Cloud, DevOps).
  • Experience working with DevOps and MLOps practices, including continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous monitoring, to deploy strategic software across a hybrid cloud.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company’s Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM’s global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients’ growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

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

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship. For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

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