Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IBM Consulting helps organizations across industries shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys through technology and business transformation services. The Senior Managing Consultant serves as the hands-on technical driver for projects, translating ambiguous business needs into ML/AI solutions, leading implementation, managing delivery risks, and guiding a small team. The role also focuses on communicating results, enabling data-driven decisions, leveraging modern LLMs, and designing scalable ML platforms.
Responsibilities
- Turn needs into Machine Learning / AI Solutions:Take high ambiguity from the business and define the problem worth solving. Design and implement systems and models to solve complex business problems, selecting relevant features and algorithms to achieve desired outcomes
- Set the engineering bar by example: establish standards for code quality, testing/validation, version control, and reproducibility — and hold them by writing to that bar yourself. You take on the pieces where getting the details right matters most
- Be the technical point of contact: translate business needs into the build and report progress to stakeholders on the solution
- Guide a small team: lead a team of 2–4. Assign and review work, unblock people, and grow them while building alongside them, not above them
- Own delivery of the solution: own the plan and sequencing, manage the technical risk, and keep the solution on track
- Communicate Results: Clearly articulate the results of Machine Learning initiatives, providing actionable insights and recommendations to drive business outcomes
- Drive Informed Decision-Making: Collaborate with stakeholders to integrate Machine Learning insights into business decision-making processes, driving informed strategic choices
- Leverage Agentic AI & Modern LLMs: Claude, Copilot, LLM agents, prompt engineering, intelligent pipelines
- Design Scalable ML Platforms: MLOps infrastructure, enterprise integration
- Mentor & Collaborate: Cross-functional partnerships, team building
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree
- Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)
- This job can be performed from anywhere in the US
- **Deep software-engineering discipline**: sets testing/validation and reproducibility standards for a team and lives them in the code; known for rigor and correctness
- **Technical leadership of a small team**: has guided a small team's technical work, owning the approach and reviewing others, while remaining a primary builder
- **Delivery ownership**: credible at planning and sequencing a solution and managing its technical risk to delivery
- **Advanced ML/AI**: broad command of ML/AI methods and modern AI/LLM/agentic approaches; sound judgment on where each applies
- **Communication & bridging business and technology**: the primary bridge between business and engineering for the solution. Comfortable being the technical point of contact, translating business needs into the build and technical reality back into decisions stakeholders can act on
- IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship
- Master's Degree
Benefits
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- 401(k)
- Cash balance pension plan
- The IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial counseling
- Life insurance
- Short & long-term disability coverage
- Opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- 12 holidays
- Minimum 56 hours sick time
- 120 hours vacation
- 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy
- Other Paid Care Leave programs
- Paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform
- Industry-recognized certifications
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups
- Giving & volunteer opportunities
- Discounts on retail products, services & experiences
- Hybrid work arrangement
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