Data Engineer - Data Platforms

Data Engineer - Data Platforms

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Introduction

In this role, you will join one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), helping deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients. You will be part of a team that accelerates innovation and adoption of emerging technologies across hybrid cloud and AI ecosystems.

You will work with experts across multiple industries to shape and improve data platforms for some of the most impactful and innovative organizations in the world. Our partnerships with leading technology providers, combined with IBM’s own software and Red Hat capabilities, will empower you to deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure data solutions.

A mindset driven by curiosity, engineering excellence, and continuous learning will be essential. You will be encouraged to explore ideas beyond your direct responsibilities, embrace modern engineering practices, and contribute to transformative client outcomes.

Your Role And Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technical and business teams to understand data requirements, integration needs, and platform constraints.
• Build, maintain, and optimize data ingestion pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows across heterogeneous systems.
• Support the orchestration of data workflows, ensuring reliability, monitoring, and scalability.
• Contribute to the deployment and operational management of data and AI solutions in cloud-based environments.
• Assist in troubleshooting data quality issues, ingestion failures, and infrastructure-related incidents.
• Work closely with architects and senior engineers to enable MLOps practices, ensuring smooth integration between data pipelines, model deployment, and cloud services.
• Help document technical designs, configuration details, and operational procedures.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Minimum 2 years of experience working in data engineering, data platform development, or data integration.
• Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, and optionally Java for distributed processing or backend components.
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and ingestion frameworks.
• Knowledge of workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, IBM DataStage Flow Designer, Prefect, Luigi).
• Understanding of cloud environments, ideally IBM Cloud, including object storage, compute, IAM, and networking fundamentals.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Exposure to MLOps concepts, CI/CD, or automation pipelines supporting ML lifecycle operations.
• Solid understanding of database principles, data modeling concepts, and best practices for data quality and reliability.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Agile mindset—ability to adapt quickly, learn continuously, and use critical thinking to solve engineering challenges.
• Experience with data governance, metadata management, or cataloging tools.
• Exposure to logging, monitoring, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry).
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, serverless functions, or distributed data processing (Spark, Flink, etc.).
• Interest in pursuing cloud, DevOps, or MLOps certifications (IBM Cloud, Red Hat, AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Availability to travel when required.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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