About this role

IBM is hiring a mid-level Professional Services Consultant based in Tokyo, Japan. The posting calls out experience with System Design, Security, Data Analytics.

Role: Professional Services Consultant
Function: services
Level: mid
Track: Individual contributor
Employment: Full-time
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Department: Consulting

Job description

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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.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Industry Consultant you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who sells, leads and implements expert services utilizing the breadth of IBM's offerings and technologies. A successful Consultant is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions used to solve the most challenging business problems.

You will work on projects that help clients integrate strategy, process, technology, and information to increase effectiveness, reduce costs and improve profit and shareholder value. You can take advantage of opportunities to master new skills, work across different disciplines, move into new challenges and develop a robust understanding of different industries.

Required technical and professional expertise

1.Relevant Professional Experience in the Financial Services Industry

•Proven consulting experience in the financial industry, covering various domains such as business strategy, transformation, data analysis, and IT solutions, preferably at a consulting firm.

•Hands-on experience in IT vendor or systems integrator (SIer) roles, managing and driving IT solution projects for the financial sector.

•Expertise in business planning, transformation, or strategic reform within the IT or corporate planning departments of financial institutions, including banks

•Experience in digital asset and Web3–related domains (e.g., crypto-asset exchange businesses), encompassing both practical involvement and participation in business design, including operations, security frameworks, and regulatory or compliance-related considerations.

2. Fluent Japanese language proficiency (JLPT N1 or equivalent).

Preferred technical and professional experience

•Proven experience in managing large-scale projects for financial institutions, ensuring timely delivery and quality outcomes.

•Extensive involvement in mission-critical system projects for financial institutions, covering all phases from requirements definition through development, testing, and final implementation.

•Experience leading or participating in international projects for financial institutions, ensuring seamless coordination across regions.

•Experience leading and hands-on contributing to AI adoption projects for financial institutions, including conceptual planning, solution design, and implementation, as well as stakeholder coordination to integrate AI initiatives into existing systems and operations.

•Experience delivering cybersecurity-related projects for financial institutions, addressing risk management, regulatory requirements, and secure system design.

•Practical experience in digital asset and Web3–related projects for financial institutions, with hands-on involvement in areas such as system design, implementation, operations, and evaluation of related technologies and use cases.