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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.

Your role and responsibilities

Who you are: A highly skilled Data Engineer specializing in Data Modeling with experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing data structures that support the storage, retrieval and processing of data for large-scale enterprise environments. Having expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling, along with a deep understanding of ETL processes, data lake architectures, and modern data platforms.

Proficient in ERwin, PostgreSQL, Apache Iceberg, Cloudera Data Platform, and Denodo. Possess ability to work with cross-functional teams, data architects, and business stakeholders ensures that data models align with enterprise data strategies and support analytical use cases effectively.

What you’ll do: As a Data Engineer – Data Modeling, you will be responsible for:

Data Modeling & Architecture

• Designing and developing conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support data migration from IIAS to Cloudera Data Lake.

• Creating and optimizing data models for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data stored in Apache Iceberg tables on Cloudera.

• Establishing data lineage and metadata management for the new data platform.

• Implementing Denodo-based data virtualization models to ensure seamless data access across multiple sources.

Data Governance & Quality

• Ensuring data integrity, consistency, and compliance with regulatory standards, including Banking/regulatory guidelines.

• Implementing Talend Data Quality (DQ) solutions to maintain high data accuracy.

• Defining and enforcing naming conventions, data definitions, and business rules for structured and semi-structured data.

ETL & Data Pipeline Optimization

• Supporting the migration of ETL workflows from IBM DataStage to PySpark, ensuring models align with the new ingestion framework.

• Collaborating with data engineers to define schema evolution strategies for Iceberg tables.

• Ensuring performance optimization for large-scale data processing on Cloudera.

Collaboration & Documentation

• Working closely with business analysts, architects, and developers to translate business requirements into scalable data models.

• Documenting data dictionary, entity relationships, and mapping specifications for data migration.

• Supporting reporting and analytics teams (Qlik Sense/Tableau) by providing well-structured data models.

 

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

4-7 years of experience in data modeling, database design, and data engineering.
• Hands-on experience with ERwin Data Modeler for creating and managing data models.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL) and big data platforms (Cloudera, Apache Iceberg).
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL database concepts.
• Understanding of data governance, metadata management, and data security principles.
• Familiarity with ETL processes and data pipeline optimization.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience working on Cloudera migration projects.
• Exposure to Denodo for data virtualization and Talend DQ for data quality management.
• Knowledge of Kafka, Airflow, and PySpark for data processing.
• Familiarity with GitLab, Sonatype Nexus, and CheckMarx for CI/CD and security compliance.
• Certifications in Data Modeling, Cloudera Data Engineering, or IBM Data Solutions.

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.


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