Data Engineer - Advanced Analytics | Active eSC/eDV Required

IBM
IBM

Software Engineering, Data Science

tri-city, or, usa

Posted on Oct 2, 2026
Introduction

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.

You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.

We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We offer:

  • Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
  • More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Data Engineer specialising in Advanced Analytics, you'll help clients turn complex data into actionable insight, AI capabilities, and intelligent decision-making platforms.

Working within IBM Consulting's Hybrid Cloud & Data practice, you'll design and deliver modern data solutions that support advanced analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and Generative AI use cases across Public Sector, Financial Services, Defence, and other regulated industries.

You'll collaborate with Data Scientists, AI Engineers, Architects, Product Owners, and stakeholders to build scalable data products and analytical solutions that solve real business challenges.

Core Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and optimise data pipelines supporting analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads.
  • Develop scalable data solutions across structured and unstructured data environments.
  • Engineer datasets and analytical products that enable Data Science, AI, reporting, and operational decision-making.
  • Build and maintain data processing frameworks, transformation pipelines, and integration patterns.
  • Support advanced analytics, predictive modelling, and AI initiatives through high-quality data engineering.
  • Collaborate with Architects, Data Scientists, AI Engineers, and business stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.
  • Translate business requirements into scalable and maintainable technical solutions.
  • Contribute to modern data platform design, data governance, and engineering best practices.
  • Mentor junior practitioners and help develop team capability.
  • Continuously explore emerging technologies and approaches across Data Engineering, Analytics, and AI.
Required education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Strong experience designing and building data engineering solutions within enterprise environments.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Experience working with modern data processing libraries and frameworks such as:

- Pandas

- NumPy

- PySpark

- Dask

  • Experience developing ETL / ELT pipelines and data transformation solutions.
  • Exposure to analytics, machine learning, or AI-enabled data workloads.
  • Experience working with cloud-based analytics and data platforms.
  • Strong understanding of data modelling, data quality, and data governance principles.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
  • Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Additional National Security Vetting (NSV) requirements may apply, including Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience with modern data platforms such as:

- Databricks

- Microsoft Fabric

- Snowflake

- Synapse

  • Exposure to machine learning, AI, or Generative AI delivery.
  • Experience supporting predictive analytics, recommendation systems, or AI-enabled products.
  • Familiarity with cloud services across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Experience working with Spark, distributed data processing, or large-scale analytics platforms.
  • Experience delivering solutions within Public Sector, Defence, Financial Services, or other regulated environments.
  • Consulting experience or exposure to client-facing delivery.
  • Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading technical workstreams.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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 your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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