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.
As a Senior Application Developer at IBM, you’ll provide technical support and maintenance by applying knowledge of application functionality and related technical design/interfaces with other systems/applications, responsible for running applications in a trouble‑free manner, knowledge of integrated development and test environments, tools, infrastructure and managed support services to support complex solutions. You will also be responsible for developing a strong understanding of the solutions and their capabilities to be able to design, build, and test new capabilities into existing applications and systems.
To be eligible for employment in this role, you must be a Canadian citizen or Canadian Permanent Resident. If you hold dual or third nationality, in addition to being either a Canadian citizen or Canadian Permanent Resident, the nationality must be from one of the below approved countries to be eligible for employment in this role: Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg,



Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, United Kingdom, United States.
Security Clearance
NATO and Controlled Goods Clearances will be required once Secret Clearance is proven/obtained.
Bachelor’s Degree
Master’s Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

- Located in Ottawa, ON (all work will be done on site at the IBM office)
- 8 years of Low‑Level Programming and embedded Systems: programming languages C/C++; Python, bitwise operations and memory management, device drivers & firmware development
- Networking and communications protocols, industrial and avionics protocols.
- Integration and interoperability bridging old and current technologies, middleware development (API gateways, event brokers, service mesh, event mesh).
- Be able to work with the Solution Architect to plan and execute the work required (features, new capabilities) by leading a team of developers and testers.
- Takes the initiative to make informed decisions regarding project direction, resource allocation, and timelines with limited supervision.
- Streamlines complex workflows by simplifying task management and improving interdepartmental coordination, leading to faster project completion.
- Excellent verbal, written communication and Quality control

Preferred technical and professional experience
Experience in leading and mentoring junior developers in best practices and design patterns.

📌 Senior Lead Application Developer (Ottawa)
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