IBM Entry level - PeopleSoft Consultant Halifax 

Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax 

102299918

As an Application Package Specialist, you’ll help clients in the selection, implementation, and production support of application packaged solutions. You’ll gain in-depth consulting skills, business knowledge, and packaged solution expertise to effectively integrate packaged technology into the clients’ business environment. Join us and start your path as a key player to achieve client expected business results and become the expert you want to be.
Your Role and Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll work in our IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world.​ These delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

We’re looking for passionate, original thinkers who want to drive progress, grow their network, and further their careers. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning, who believes no problem is too big to solve, and who wants to unleash their potential, an Associate role is for you.

Candidates must:

• Have graduated no earlier than 2022, and will be graduating no later than 2024
• Have an Associate’s Degree, College Diploma, Bachelor’s Degree, or Master’s Degree by date of employment
• Exception: This program does not accept MBA or PhD candidates/graduates
• Have no more than 2 years of full-time professional related work experience
• Be eligible to work in Canada without current or future needs for visa sponsorship
• Be willing and able to live and work in Nova Scotia, with minimal travel anticipated
• Must be eligible for clearance and have lived in Canada for 5 – 10 years

Functional career path(s) include:

Functional Analyst Roles and Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for maintaining system administration tasks on the PeopleSoft application
• You will be supporting accounting, payroll & HR tasks on the PeopleSoft ERP application
• You will be working with large databases from the client

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• You have the ability to work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand requirements, design, code and test innovative applications, and support those applications for our highly valued customers
• You have strong excel skills and enjoy making meaningful evaluations of a given set of data (tables, excel files etc.)
• You enjoy working in a team environment with team members of a diverse background and skill set along with being comfortable working on your own to complete individual assigned tasks
• You enjoy working with the public and have demonstrated excellent customer experience skills
• You will have demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to communicate with multiple levels of management and executives
• You have the ability to learn new processes, coach and direct team members
• You enjoy problem solving and delivering innovative solutions to complex problems that address client needs
• You are great at solving problems, debugging, troubleshooting, designing and implementing solutions to complex technical issues
• You have experience coding and using databases
• You have basic knowledge or hands on coding experience in one or more of the following technology areas:

  • C++, C, Java, JavaScript, Angular, React, Python, SQL, ASP .NET

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Must be eligible for clearance and have lived in Canada for 5 – 10 years