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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

Role Overview

 

We are looking for a Data Engineer with strong hands-on Databricks experience who will design and optimize scalable data pipelines, work with Delta Lakehouse architectures, and enable advanced analytics across Azure or AWS platforms.

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

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop ETL/ELT pipelines in Databricks using PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake.
  • Use Delta Live Tables for simplified pipeline orchestration.
  • Implement Databricks Auto Loader for real-time/batch data ingestion.
  • Build Databricks SQL dashboards and queries for reporting and analytics.
  • Manage Databricks clusters, jobs, and workflows ensuring cost efficiency.
  • Work with cloud-native services (ADF, Synapse, ADLS or AWS Glue, S3, Redshift) for data integration.
  • Apply Unity Catalog for role-based access and lineage tracking.

Collaborate with data scientists to support ML workloads using MLflow

Preferred technical and professional experience

Mandatory Skills

  • Strong Databricks expertise: PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake (ACID, schema evolution, time travel).
  • Exposure to Delta Live Tables, Auto Loader, Unity Catalog, MLflow.
  • Hands-on with Azure or AWS data services.
  • Strong SQL and Python programming for data pipelines.
  • Knowledge of data modeling (star/snowflake, lakehouse).

Good to Have

 

  • Streaming data experience (Kafka, Event Hub, Kinesis).
  • Familiarity with Databricks REST APIs.
  • Certification: Databricks Data Engineer Associate, Azure DP-203 / AWS Analytics Specialty.

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

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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.

 

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ABOUT IBM

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