Introduction At IBM, technology creates value when it solves real business challenges. As an Entry-Level Technical Engineering Seller, you will work with clients and IBM technical experts to design, demonstrate, and deliver solutions across AI, hybrid cloud, automation, data, and security. This role combines technical problem-solving, customer engagement, and business consulting to help organizations achieve measurable outcomes while building the foundation for a career in technical sales and solution consulting.
Your Role and Responsibilities
- Participate in client discovery sessions to understand business objectives, technical requirements, success criteria, current environments, and opportunities to apply IBM technology.
- Design and validate technical solution approaches that address customer challenges, align with business goals, and demonstrate practical value across IBM software, AI, cloud, data, automation, and security capabilities.
- Build and deliver demonstrations, proofs of concept, workshops, and technical presentations that showcase solution functionality, technical feasibility, integration requirements, and business value.
- Translate technical concepts into explicit business value for technical and non-technical stakeholders through effective storytelling, documentation, and recommendations.
- Support customer adoption, expansion, and success by helping clients define use cases, remove technical barriers, identify deployment considerations, and realize measurable value from IBM solutions.
- Collaborate with sales, technical specialists, customer success teams, and partners to progress opportunities, identify growth areas, and support client engagement activities.
- Contribute innovative ideas, reusable assets, technical best practices, and emerging technology perspectives that help accelerate client success, technical readiness, and solution adoption.
- Present technical findings, solution recommendations, and next steps to both business and technical stakeholders.
Required Education High School Diploma/GED
Preferred Education Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Actively Enrolled: Registered undergraduate or graduate university student.
- Seeking a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Foundational knowledge of cloud computing, software development, AI, automation, data, or cybersecurity.
- Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Java, JavaScript, C++, or similar.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools to prototype, build, or troubleshoot applications.
- Solid analytical, problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively and communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and a passion for technology and client success.
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
- Internship, co-op, research, project, or extracurricular experience in technology, consulting, customer success, technical sales, or software development.
- Exposure to cloud platforms, AI, cybersecurity, automation, data technologies, or modern application development.
- Technical certifications or participation in technology-focused programs, hackathons, or case competitions.
- Leadership experience through student organizations, athletics, volunteer work, competitions, or community involvement.
- Knowledge of specific industries or business domains.
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 recent 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 every day,
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 ongoing 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 every day is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with the 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.
- This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.
- The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.
Locations - Calgary, Markham, Toronto, Ottawa, Ontario, Alberta, Canada
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