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Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by 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 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.

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

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer with over five years of expertise in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and architectures. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring data reliability, accessibility, and security for our organization.

 

Responsibilities:

  1. Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to support data-driven applications and analytics.
  2. Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
  3. Develop and manage data storage solutions, including data warehouses and data lakes, using technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, or cloud-based platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
  4. Design and implement data governance policies, data quality checks, and metadata management practices.
  5. Ensure data security, privacy, and compliance with relevant regulations and standards.
  6. Monitor and optimize data processing performance and scalability.
  7. Stay current with emerging trends and best practices in big data technologies and data engineering.
  8. Mentor junior data engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team.

Required education

Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Qualifications:

  1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
  2. Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in data engineering.
  3. In-depth knowledge of data modeling, database design, and SQL.
  4. Proficiency in big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Flink).
  5. Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and related data services.
  6. Familiarity with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Snowflake).
  7. Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python, Scala, or Shell.
  8. Experience with data orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Luigi, Prefect).
  9. Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  10. Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams.
  11. Professional certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty, Google Professional Data Engineer) are a plus.

Preferred technical and professional experience

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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 50 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,
neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also
committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding
citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.