**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 Software and Red Hat. 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. **Your role and responsibilities** As a Software Developer you'll participate in many aspects of the software development lifecycle, such as design, code implementation, testing, and support. You will create software that enables your clients' hybrid-cloud and AI journeys. Your primary responsibilities include: Comprehensive Feature Development and Issue Resolution: Working on the end to end feature development and solving challenges faced in the implementation. Stakeholder Collaboration and Issue Resolution: Collaborate with key stakeholders, internal and external, to understand the problems, issues with the product and features and solve the issues as per SLAs defined. Continuous Learning and Technology Integration: Being eager to learn new technologies and implementing the same in feature development. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Minimum of 10 years of experience as an SAP Basis Consultant/SAP Technical Lead/SAP Technical Architect, 3 full implementation life cycles in SAP Technical teams. * Consultative skills. Ability to define and articulate customer value propositions for products, technologies and solutions in support of SAP implementations, migrations, etc. (e.g. ERP 6.0, CRM 2007, Netweaver 7.4, BI, BOBJ, etc.) * Deep, broad tech knowledge of SAP products and solutions on NetWeaver 7.5, HANA, S4 HANA, SAP Cloud (HEC), SAP On-Premise solutions, SAP Cloud Solutions, SAP Hybrid Cloud Solutions * Knowledgeable in implementing SAP within a production Data Centre and interfacing with IT best practices and standards. * Ability to lead technical teams or work independently as an integral team member or virtually, as required. * Needs to have a good knowledge of the leading trends in the Insurance Industry space (Big Data; Integration, Cloud, API ++) and experience of driving this for clients. * Experience with Insurance Architecture Consulting good to have. Participation in International forums in the Technology space will be useful Must be located or relocate to Bedford, Nova Scotia **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Knowledge of competitive environment and alternative tech solutions / approaches. * Experience and knowledge with SAP systems and network management and knowledge with SAP’s System integration and implementation techniques. * Experience and knowledge in Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning. * Understanding of SAP implementations on Virtualisation technologies (e.g. VMware, PowerVM, etc.) * Experience and knowledge with Clustering and High Availability solutions. * Experience and knowledge with ERP 6.0 Implementations on Windows, Linux and other operating systems * Experience and knowledge with Databases such as Oracle, DB2, etc. IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.