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Data Engineer with Python

IBM

Software Engineering, Data Science

Zagreb, Croatia

Posted on Mar 9, 2026

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Data Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high‑performing data pipelines and processing solutions in cloud environments. You will work extensively with Python, SQL, and distributed processing frameworks such as Spark to enable reliable data ingestion, transformation, and delivery for analytics, reporting, and data science use cases. You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to understand data needs, modernize data architectures, and implement best practices in data engineering, testing, and automation.

This role is cloud‑agnostic but requires strong practical experience with cloud‑native data platforms, orchestration tools, and containerized deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain batch and real‑time data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and delivery

• Develop scalable data processing solutions using Python, SQL, and distributed compute frameworks such as Spark

• Implement robust unit, integration, and data‑quality testing for all pipelines

• Optimize data workflows for performance, cost efficiency, and reliability

• Design and operate data layers for analytics, data warehouses, and data lakes or lakehouses

• Build and maintain orchestration workflows using tools such as Airflow or similar schedulers

• Develop APIs or integration components when required for data movement or data services

• Containerize and deploy data solutions using Docker and work with orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes

• Follow best practices for data governance, metadata management, data security, and compliance

• Collaborate closely with data analysts, data scientists, architects, and business stakeholders

• Maintain clear technical documentation including data flow diagrams, pipeline specifications, and operational guides

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Required Technical and Professional Experience

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related technical roles

• Strong proficiency in Python for data processing, automation, and application development

• Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with relational and NoSQL databases

• Hands‑on experience developing and operating data pipelines in a cloud environment

• Solid experience with Spark or similar distributed compute frameworks

• Proficiency with containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes

• Experience implementing unit and integration testing for data pipelines

• Knowledge of data modeling, ETL and ELT patterns, and pipeline performance tuning

• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or Prefect

• Understanding of cloud security fundamentals and data protection best practices

• Experience working in Agile or Scrum teams

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with lakehouse architecture concepts

• Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Kafka or equivalent

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

• Experience with metadata and data catalog solutions

• Familiarity with infrastructure‑as‑code concepts or tools

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills

• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical audiences

• Strong sense of ownership and commitment to delivering high‑quality solutions

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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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