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Application Developer-Application Modernization

IBM

2 - 5 years

Mangalore

Posted: 18/05/2026

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Job Description

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 Client Innovation Centers (Delivery 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 Application Modernization, you will transform legacy applications into modern, scalable, and cloud-ready solutions, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and business objectives. This role involves hands-on development using contemporary technologies and frameworks. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Develop and Refactor Applications: Develop and refactor applications using modern programming languages such as Java, .NET, Python, Node.js, and JavaScript, to meet business requirements and align with architectural standards. • Implement Microservices Architectures: Implement microservices architectures and containerized solutions using Docker and Kubernetes to enable seamless integration across systems. • Integrate with Cloud Platforms: Integrate applications with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud to support scalability and modernization. • Apply DevOps Practices: Apply DevOps practices and tooling to support continuous integration, delivery, and monitoring, ensuring efficient and reliable solution delivery. • Collaborate with Architects: Collaborate with architects and consultants to execute modernization strategies and ensure technical feasibility, driving solution delivery and meeting business objectives.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Modern Programming Languages: Experience with modern programming languages such as Java, .NET, Python, Node.js, and JavaScript, including hands-on development and refactoring of applications. • Microservices and Containerization: Exposure to implementing microservices architectures and containerized solutions using Docker and Kubernetes to enable seamless integration across systems. • Cloud Platform Integration: Experience with integrating applications with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud to support scalability and modernization. • DevOps Practices and Tooling: Exposure to applying DevOps practices and tooling to support continuous integration, delivery, and monitoring, ensuring efficient and reliable solution delivery. • Database Solution Design: Experience with designing and implementing secure, scalable, and maintainable database solutions to support application modernization.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Generative AI Capabilities: Exposure to incorporating generative AI capabilities (Watson, Azure OpenAI, Bedrock, Vertex AI) into application workflows to enhance modernization strategies. • Legacy Code Migration: Experience with migrating legacy codebases (e.g., COBOL, RPG, C++) to modern platforms and languages, enabling seamless integration and scalability. • RESTful API Development: Exposure to building and consuming RESTful APIs and OpenAPI specifications to facilitate integration across systems.

Years of Experience:
6 - 8

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.

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About Company

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is a leading global technology and consulting company, headquartered in Armonk, New York. With over a century of innovation, IBM provides a wide range of technology solutions and professional services. The company specializes in cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, quantum computing, and cybersecurity, helping organizations digitally transform their operations. IBM’s flagship AI platform, Watson, and its hybrid cloud capabilities are widely used across industries such as healthcare, finance, government, and manufacturing. IBM is known for its strong commitment to research and development, and it consistently ranks among the top organizations for U.S. patents.

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