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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 seasoned Data Engineer with a passion for building and managing data pipelines in large-scale environments. Have good experience working with big data technologies, data integration frameworks, and cloud-based data platforms.
Have a strong foundation in Apache Spark, PySpark, Kafka, and SQL.What you’ll do: As a Data Engineer – Data Platform Services, your responsibilities include:
Data Ingestion & Processing
• Assisting in building and optimizing data pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
• Working with Kafka and Apache Spark to manage real-time and batch data ingestion.
• Supporting data integration using IBM CDC and Universal Data Mover (UDM).
Big Data & Data Lakehouse Management
• Managing and processing large datasets using PySpark and Iceberg tables.
• Assisting in migrating data workloads from IIAS to Cloudera Data Lake.
• Supporting data lineage tracking and metadata management for compliance.
Optimization & Performance Tuning
• Helping to optimize PySpark jobs for efficiency and scalability.
• Supporting data partitioning, indexing, and caching strategies.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting pipeline issues and performance bottlenecks.
Security & Compliance
• Implementing role-based access controls (RBAC) and encryption policies.
• Supporting data security and compliance efforts using Thales CipherTrust.
• Ensuring data governance best practices are followed.
Collaboration & Automation
• Working with Data Scientists, Analysts, and DevOps teams to enable seamless data access.
• Assisting in automation of data workflows using Apache Airflow.
• Supporting Denodo-based data virtualization for efficient data access.

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

 4-7 years of experience in big data engineering, data integration, and distributed computing.
• Strong skills in Apache Spark, PySpark, Kafka, SQL, and Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).
• Proficiency in Python or Scala for data processing.
• Experience with data pipeline orchestration tools (Apache Airflow, Stonebranch UDM).
• Understanding of data security, encryption, and compliance frameworks.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience in banking or financial services data platforms.
• Exposure to Denodo for data virtualization and DGraph for graph-based insights.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Certifications in Cloudera Data Engineering, IBM Data Engineering, or AWS Data Analytics.

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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