Data & Analytics Associate Data Engineer 2027 Multiple Cities

Ready to think boldly, work with some of the world's most recognized brands, andkick-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'llhave 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 meansyou'llhave 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.

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'llplayan important rolein deciding the most suitable data management systems andidentifyingthe crucial data required for insightful analysis. As a Data Engineer,you'lltackle 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.

• 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.

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree

• 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 Bachelor’s degree in a related field (Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Math, MIS, Engineering).
• Preferred Skills/Tech: SQL, Python,dbt, Snowflake,Big Query, Airflow, data modeling, CI/CD basics.
• General skills:
  GenAI literacy - prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, and evaluation of generative models.

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