Senior Data Engineer — Advanced Analytics & AI Pipelines

IBM; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Sabbatical

Parental leave

Private medical

Dental & optical

25 days holiday

EAP

Pension via salary sacrifice

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is recruiting a senior data engineer to design, build, and optimise data pipelines for analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads. You’ll develop scalable data solutions across structured and unstructured data environments and engineer datasets for Data Science, AI, reporting, and operational decision making.

You will collaborate with Architects, Data Scientists, AI Engineers, and business stakeholders, translating complex business requirements into scalable

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience designing and building data engineering solutions in enterprise environments.
• Experience with modern data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, Synapse).
• Exposure to analytics, ML, or AI-enabled data workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimise data pipelines for analytics, ML, and AI workloads.
• Develop scalable data solutions across structured and unstructured data environments.
• Engineer datasets and analytical products for Data Science, AI, reporting, and decision making.

Skills

Python

SQL

Pandas

NumPy

PySpark

Dask

Spark

Data modelling

Data governance

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Snowflake

Synapse

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is recruiting a senior data engineer to design, build, and optimise data pipelines for analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads. You’ll develop scalable data solutions across structured and unstructured data environments and engineer datasets for Data Science, AI, reporting, and operational decision making.

You will collaborate with Architects, Data Scientists, AI Engineers, and business stakeholders, translating complex business requirements into scalable