Introduction
At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We Offer
- Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
- Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
- Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
- Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
- A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
- Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
- Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
- More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
Your Role And Responsibilities
Full Stack Developers designs and build cloud‑native applications across both front‑end and back‑end components. The role includes creating modern user interfaces, developing scalable microservices, working with event‑driven architectures, and deploying solutions on AWS or Azure. Depending on experience, responsibilities may include delivering features, coordinating development work, or owning key technical components.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop full‑stack cloud‑native applications using microservices, APIs, and modern UI frameworks.
- Build front‑end applications using React or Angular (SPA or microfrontends).
- Develop scalable back‑end services following 12‑factor principles and event‑driven patterns through Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
- Design Relational SQL and NoSQL data models for cloud‑hosted applications.
- Build applications using languages such as Java, .NET, Node.js, or Python.
- Deploy and manage containerised or serverless workloads using AWS or Azure cloud services.
- Work with event‑driven tools such as Kafka and cloud messaging services.
- Apply cloud‑native CI/CD, DevSecOps practices, and Test‑Driven Development.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams and support high‑quality delivery across the stack.
- Depending on experience, guide other developers or lead technical components.
Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- Front‑end development (React or Angular)
- Back‑end development using microservices and APIs
- Relational SQL and NoSQL data modelling , AWS Javascript Containers
- Cloud runtimes (Java, .NET, Node.js, Python)
- Spring Boot and/or other modern frameworks
- Event‑driven development (Kafka, cloud messaging)
- AWS or Azure cloud services (compute, storage, routing, databases)
- Containerisation (Docker), Kubernetes, serverless architectures
- CI/CD and DevSecOps (Git-based workflows, pipelines, automation)
- Test‑Driven Development (TDD)
- Problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills
- Able to mentor/lead juniors
As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- CloudFormation
- VueJS
- Cypress
- Openshift
- Python
