**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting embraces 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 IBM 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** The Software Engineer within the Business Unit "Digital Solutions" is responsible for planning of micro service architectures for applications in the cloud and the development of applications and systems that provide the required functionality for IT services. The Software Engineer always exists in a highly heterogeneous environment that includes legacy services, mobile devices and IOT. The task includes the design and communications of architectures for components or systems, development, testing and maintenance of custom software applications as well as the customization of standard software. Your Role and Responsibilities: * Planning of micro service architectures for applications in the cloud * Design and communications of architectures for components or systems * Development of software * Optimization of software and the development process * Code review * Documentation of software and processes **Required technical and professional expertise** * At least 5 years professional expertise in Java Enterprise development * Professional experience in agile development * Skills in: * Java * JPA/Hibernate * Spring * REST, XML * SQL (PostgreSQL, Oracle) * Microservices * Docker * Kafka * Fluent Business English (written and spoken) **Preferred technical and professional experience** Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise * Kotlin * JavaScript * Angular, CSS, HTML5 * Test Containers * Kubernetes