Associate Data Engineer 2027

Job description

Introduction Come forge the future like an IBMer Ready to think boldly, work with some of the world's most recognized brands, and kick-start your career? Welcome to the IBM's Associate Program for university hires. From day one, you'll collaborate with global clients and contribute to projects that help organizations solve their toughest challenges across digital transformation, cloud strategy, AI adoption, and process redesign - working alongside a global cohort of diverse, ambitious peers. As an Associate, you'll have access to industry-recognized certifications, digital badges, and a minimum of 40 hours of structured learning per year on IBM's AI-driven learning platform - supported by coaches, mentors, and thriving professional communities across practices. IBM's culture of internal mobility means you'll have the freedom to explore new technologies, industries, and career paths as your interests evolve. Bring your curiosity. Grow your skills. Build what's next - like an IBMer. To give yourself the best opportunity for success, we advise applying only to roles that align with your skills and experience, rather than applying broadly across all entry-level positions. You'll receive a status update email for each application, so be sure to check your IBM Careers account regularly — it's the best way to get a centralized view of which roles you have active applications against. Your role and responsibilities As an Associate Data Engineer at IBM you will harness the power of data to unveil captivating stories and intricate patterns. You'll contribute to data gathering, storage, and both batch and real-time processing. Collaborating closely with diverse teams, you'll play an important role in deciding the most suitable data management systems and identifying the crucial data required for insightful analysis. As a Data Engineer, you'll tackle obstacles related to database integration and untangle complex, unstructured data sets. These positions are anticipated to start in 2027. Key Responsibilities may include: Assist in designing and implementing scalable data architecture and management systems tailored for modern cloud environments. Work on optimizing existing data pipelines and processes for improved performance. Work with ETL/ELT ingestion pipelines. Collect and analyze data to identify trends, providing clients with actionable insights to enhance marketing, operational, and business practices. Participate in troubleshooting data-related issues, working to solve challenges and data inconsistencies. Create visually compelling and user-friendly data visualizations, dashboards, and reports to effectively communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Ensure the integrity, accuracy, and reliability of data through rigorous data cleaning, validation, and preprocessing procedures. Work with the project team to prioritize and translate Client requirements and define current and future operational scenarios (processes, models, use cases, plans and solutions). Work collaboratively with Client and the Architect to ensure proper translation of business requirements to solution requirements. Present analytical findings and recommendations clearly and concisely, demonstrating the value of data-driven decision-making to clients. Consulting Skills: Advocates business process transformation by analyzing application portfolios across the ecosystem to identify process optimization and automation opportunities, leveraging planning, project management, and Agile methodologies to drive effective solutions. Demonstrates strong communication, problem-solving, adaptability, and teamwork skills, with a collaborative mindset, curiosity to learn, and the ability to clearly articulate ideas, ask insightful questions, and recommend solutions. Required education High School Diploma/GED Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise Ability to incorporate a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques. Basic understanding of Cloud (AWS,Azure,etc). Ability to use programming languages like Java, Python, Scala, etc., to build pipelines to extract and transform data from a repository to a data consumer. Ability to use Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) tools and/or data integration, or federation tools to prepare and transform data as needed. Ability to use leading edge tools such as Linux, SQL, Python, Spark,Hadoopand Java. Exposure to ETL/ELT projects, data warehouse design, analytics pipelines, capstone data engineering Willingness to travel up to 100%, based on project requirements. Preferred technical and professional experience Preferred Bachelor’s degree in a related field (Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Math, MIS, Engineering). Preferred Skills/Tech: SQL, Python,dbt, Snowflake,BigQuery, Airflow, data modeling, CI/CD basics. Preferred Certifications: SnowProCore, Databricks Data Engineer Associate, Google Associate Cloud Engineer or Data Engineer coursework General skills: GenAI literacy - prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, and evaluation of generative models. 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. 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 yo