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Data Engineer - Data Integration [AWS, SQL Server, PostgreSQL]

IBM

Software Engineering, Data Science

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Mar 19, 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.

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 Database Engineer specializing in Enterprise Data Platforms, you will design, implement, and optimize robust database environments to support mission‑critical workloads and modernization initiatives. You will work across on‑premise and cloud ecosystems, ensuring availability, performance, and secure data management. Your primary responsibilities will include:

Design and Optimize Database Architectures: Develop and manage high‑availability and scalable database solutions leveraging Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL in enterprise environments.
Lead Performance Tuning and Administration: Execute advanced tuning, capacity management, and administration activities to ensure optimal performance and resilience of database systems.
Work with AWS Cloud Services: Apply consolidated experience with AWS Cloud to design and manage cloud‑based data platforms aligned with architectural and security best practices.
Manage AWS RDS Environments: Oversee AWS RDS instances, including high availability setups, backup strategies, security configurations, and performance optimization.
Drive Complex Data Migrations: Utilize AWS DMS to lead data migration initiatives and modernization strategies, ensuring accurate, efficient, and low‑disruption data movement across heterogeneous systems.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

In this role, you will build deep expertise in enterprise‑grade database engineering, contributing to the design, optimization, and modernization of mission‑critical data platforms across hybrid and cloud environments. You will work with advanced database technologies and AWS cloud services to ensure resilient, secure, and high‑performance data ecosystems. Your primary responsibilities will include:

Advanced RDBMS Proficiency: Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL in enterprise environments, with the ability to quickly adopt adjacent tooling to support reliability and scale.
High‑Availability Design & Tuning: Design, performance tuning, and administration of highly available and scalable database platforms, applying best practices for resiliency, continuity, and throughput.
AWS Cloud Experience: Consolidated experience operating data platforms on AWS, aligning with security, scalability, and operational excellence standards.
AWS RDS Administration: Advanced management of AWS RDS (SQL Server/PostgreSQL), including HA configurations, backup and recovery, security hardening, and performance optimization.
Data Migration & Modernization with AWS DMS: Execute complex migrations and modernization strategies using AWS DMS, including data mapping/validation and low‑downtime cutovers across heterogeneous systems.

Preferred technical and professional experience

AWS Certified Database – Specialty
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional
Microsoft DP‑300 (Administering Relational Databases)
PostgreSQL professional certifications

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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

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