Associate System Engineer
IBM — Hyderabad, Telangana
₹4–8 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · Entry level · Freshers eligible · Full-time · hybrid
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Quick answer: An entry-level consulting delivery role in Hyderabad, turning client process definitions into automations built on Watsonx and Watson APIs. The whole technical list is pitched at exposure level, so a fresher with one related project or internship can meet it.
From IBM's job posting
Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
Your role and responsibilities
As an Application Developer specializing in Cognitive Process Automation, you will convert process definitions into optimized cognitive solutions. You will collaborate with clients, Automation Project Managers, and RPA Architects to deliver end-to-end solutions that optimize service delivery.
Your primary responsibilities will include
- Deliver Cognitive Solutions: Convert process definitions into optimized cognitive solutions using Watson APIs, Watsonx products, and Cognitive Assistance accelerators such as Agent Assist and User Assist.
- Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with clients, Automation Project Managers, and RPA Architects to ensure successful end-to-end solution delivery.
- Utilize IDCP and IBM Consulting Advantage Platform: Leverage IDCP and IBM Consulting Advantage platform, including Methodx, assets, and assistants, to support solution development.
- Implement Cognitive Process Automation: Apply expertise in Cognitive Process Automation to design and implement optimized solutions that meet client needs.
- Support Solution Delivery: Ensure high-quality solution delivery by collaborating with the project team and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Required technical and professional expertise
- Exposure to Cognitive Process Automation: Familiarity with converting process definitions into optimized cognitive solutions using Watson APIs and Watsonx products.
- Experience working with Watsonx Orchestrate and Watsonx Assistant: Understanding of how to leverage these tools to design and implement optimized cognitive solutions.
- Knowledge of Cognitive Assistance Accelerators: Acquaintance with Agent Assist and User Assist, and their application in cognitive solution development.
- Familiarity with IDCP and IBM Consulting Advantage Platform: Basic understanding of how to utilize IDCP, Methodx, assets, and assistants to support solution development.
- Exposure to Solution Delivery: Experience working collaboratively with project teams and stakeholders to ensure high-quality solution delivery.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Deep Understanding of Watson APIs: Familiarity with leveraging Watson APIs to design and implement optimized cognitive solutions.
- Exposure to IDCP Assets: Basic understanding of utilizing IDCP assets to support solution development.
- Knowledge of Cognitive Assistance Tools: Acquaintance with additional Cognitive Assistance accelerators beyond Agent Assist and User Assist.
Years of Experience:0 - 1
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
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 everyday, 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 on-going 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 everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with 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
When applying to jobs of your interest, we recommend that you do so for those that match your experience and expertise. Our recruiters advise that you apply to not more than 3 roles in a year for the best candidate experience. For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
Job ID
133734
Company
(0063) IBM India Private Limited
General (daytime)
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HireSetu's note
Where the real bar sits
The only hard filters are a bachelor's degree and 0 to 1 years of experience. Every technical line is soft: exposure to cognitive process automation, experience with Watsonx Orchestrate and Watsonx Assistant, acquaintance with Agent Assist and User Assist, basic understanding of IDCP and Methodx. Those verbs matter. Nobody expects you to have shipped a client automation.
The preferred list asks for deeper Watson API knowledge and more accelerators, which is what someone a year or two in would carry. Before an interview, get clear on what Watson Assistant and Orchestrate are for: intents, entities, dialog flow, and how a bot hands off to a person. Same for RPA basics, since you'll sit beside RPA architects.
Configuration-heavy automation work
As an application developer here, you take a process definition and turn it into a working automation using Watsonx products and prebuilt assistants. The IBM Consulting Advantage platform carries Methodx and reusable assets, so much of the job is assembling and configuring those, then getting them to behave for a client.
You're in delivery, working with clients, project managers and architects, not on a product team releasing features. Deadlines come from a project rather than a sprint you own. Freshers who enjoy untangling a business process with a toolkit settle in faster than those hunting for pure code work.
Hybrid in Hyderabad, day shift
The base is one of IBM's FutureNow delivery centres in Hyderabad, hybrid, general daytime hours, no travel. Local presence counts for more than the word hybrid suggests, since these centres exist to put skills close to the client.
One detail buried in the listing: IBM's recruiters advise no more than three applications a year on its portal, so choose the roles you actually fit. Ask the recruiter which account you'd join and how many days a week are onsite. Those two answers shape the job more than the title does.
Drafted with AI from IBM's job posting and checked by Prashanth Jakkula before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.
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