Remote AI & Data Engineer Consultant: Snowflake & LLMs

IBM Computing; Armonk (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking a Consultant, AI and Data Engineer to join a growing team that builds Snowflake data foundations and AI solutions for enterprise clients. You will design data pipelines, model data for analytics, and deploy LLM-based and ML applications in a fast-paced consulting environment.

You will collaborate with solution architects, data analysts, and data scientists to deliver production-grade solutions across multiple client engagements, while ensuring governance, security, and

Qualifications

• Strong SQL and Python skills for data engineering and AI workloads (ETL/ELT, modeling, governance).
• Experience building LLM-based applications including prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, and orchestration.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (Snowflake preferred) and data governance practices.

Responsibilities

• Data Pipeline Development: Design, build, and operate ETL / ELT pipelines and data warehouse models on Snowflake.
• AI Solution Development: Build and deploy LLM-based apps, RAG, agents, document intelligence, and classical ML models.
• AI-Ready Data Engineering: Prepare and govern data for AI consumption, including vector search and semantic layers.
• Snowflake AI Platform: Implement solutions using Snowflake Cortex, Snowpark, and related services.
• Evaluation and Reliability: Define evaluation datasets and metrics, implement testing, observability, and guardrails.
• Implementation and Deployment: Deploy solutions to cloud environments with CI/CD and IaC.
• Client Engagement: Understand requirements and present technical options; integrate data/AI into business processes.
• Governance and Security: Apply data governance and privacy across data pipelines and AI systems.
• Documentation and Knowledge Transfer: Produce clear docs for pipelines, models, prompts, and architectures.
• Continuous Learning: Track Snowflake and AI ecosystem developments.

Skills

Strong SQL and Python

LLM-based applications

Git-based version control

Tools

dbt

Spark

Snowpark

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Job description

IBM Consulting is seeking a Consultant, AI and Data Engineer to join a growing team that builds Snowflake data foundations and AI solutions for enterprise clients. You will design data pipelines, model data for analytics, and deploy LLM-based and ML applications in a fast-paced consulting environment.

You will collaborate with solution architects, data analysts, and data scientists to deliver production-grade solutions across multiple client engagements, while ensuring governance, security, and