Introduction
Your role and responsibilities
As an Associate Data Engineer at IBM you will harness the power of data to unveil captivating stories and intricate patterns. You'll contribute to data gathering, storage, and both batch and real-time processing.
Collaborating closely with diverse teams, you'll play an important role in deciding the most suitable data management systems and identifying the crucial data required for insightful analysis. As a Data Engineer, you'll tackle obstacles related to database integration and untangle complex, unstructured data sets.
These positions are anticipated to start in 2027.
Key Responsibilities may include: - Assisting in designing and implementing scalable data architecture and management systems tailored for modern cloud environments.
- Work on optimizing existing data pipelines and processes for improved performance.
- Work with ETL/ELT ingestion pipelines.
- Collect and analyze data to identify trends, providing clients with actionable insights to enhance marketing, operational, and business practices.
- Participate in troubleshooting data-related issues, working to solve challenges and data inconsistencies.
- Create visually compelling and user-friendly data visualizations, dashboards, and reports to effectively communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ensure the integrity, accuracy, and reliability of data through rigorous data cleaning, validation, and preprocessing procedures.
- Work with the project team to prioritize and translate Client requirements and define current and future operational scenarios (processes, models, use cases, plans, and solutions). Work collaboratively with the Client and the Architect to ensure proper translation of business requirements to solution requirements.
- Present analytical findings and recommendations clearly and concisely, demonstrating the value of data-driven decision-making to clients.
Consulting Skills: - Advocates business process transformation by analyzing application portfolios across the ecosystem to identify process optimization and automation opportunities, leveraging planning, project management, and Agile methodologies to drive effective solutions.
- Demonstrates strong communication, problem-solving, adaptability, and teamwork skills, with a collaborative mindset, curiosity to learn, and the ability to clearly articulate ideas, ask insightful questions, and recommend solutions.
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Ability to incorporate a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques.
- Basic understanding of Cloud (AWS,Azure,etc).
- Ability to use programming languages like Java, Python, Scala, etc., to build pipelines to extract and transform data from a repository to a data consumer.
- Ability to use Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) tools and/or data integration, or federation tools to prepare and transform data as needed.
- Ability to use leading edge tools such as Linux, SQL, Python, Spark,Hadoopand Java.
- Exposure to ETL/ELT projects, data warehouse design, analytics pipelines, capstone data engineering
- Willingness to travel up to 100%, based on project requirements.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Preferred Bachelor's degree in a related field (Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Math, MIS, Engineering).
- Preferred Skills/Tech: SQL, Python,dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Airflow, data modeling, CI/CD basics.
- Preferred Certifications: SnowProCore, Databricks Data Engineer Associate, Google Associate Cloud Engineer or Data Engineer coursework.
- General skills: GenAI literacy - prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, and evaluation of generative models.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILSIBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
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.
The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
