Data Engineer

IBM
IBM

Software Engineering, Data Science

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Jun 3, 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 Data Engineer specializing in Google's data platforms, you will design, build, and maintain data engineering solutions on Google's Cloud ecosystem. This role requires expertise in utilizing various Google services for batch and real-time data pipelines, data migration, and data layer design.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Design Data Pipelines: Design and develop batch and real-time data pipelines for Data Warehouse and Datalake using Google services such as DataProc, DataFlow, PubSub, BigQuery, and Big Table.

• Develop Data Engineering Solutions: Utilize Google Cloud Storage, BigTable, BigQuery DataProc with Spark and Hadoop, and Google DataFlow with Apache Beam or Python to build and maintain data engineering solutions.

• Manage Data Platforms: Schedule and manage the data platform using Google Cloud Scheduler and Cloud Composer (Airflow), ensuring efficient data pipeline operations.

• Implement Data Migration: Develop and implement data migration solutions using Google services, ensuring seamless data transfer between systems.

• Optimize Data Layer: Design and optimize the data layer using Google services such as BigQuery, Big Table, and Cloud Spanner, ensuring efficient data storage and retrieval.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• 3 to 4 years of experience in data engineering

• Strong fundamentals in data engineering, including data modeling, ETL/ELT design patterns, best practices, and data pipeline performance tuning and optimization.

• Knowledge of data governance and security principles.

• Advanced SQL skills with a focus on query performance and optimization.

• Solid Python programming skills for data processing, automation, and scripting.

• Familiarity with distributed data processing frameworks such as Spark, Beam, Flink, or similar technologies.

• Good understanding of DevOps and data quality practices, including CI/CD for data workflows, version control, and testing frameworks for pipelines and transformations.

Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Gemini or similar technologies that support code generation, refactoring, or workflow automation.

• Advanced spoken English (B2 Level)

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience working with cloud platforms for data engineering (for example, AWS, GCP, or Azure).

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.

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