At IBM CIC, we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, whom may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long‑term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer:
- Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry‑recognized certifications
- Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
- Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
- Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
- A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
- Internal recognition programs for peer‑to‑peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
- 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), online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5 % of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
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
We’re seeking a Data Engineer to significantly contribute to our data integration efforts. In this role, you’ll lead smaller projects, guide junior engineers, and shape our technical direction in data integration practices. You will actively participate in the entire data integration lifecycle, focusing on extracting, transforming, and loading data from diverse sources into our data warehouse using modern data integration tools and methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Project Leadership: Lead smaller projects from design through deployment, showcasing strong technical and project management skills.
- Mentorship: Guide and support Junior Data Engineers, fostering their growth and development.
- Technical Leadership: Contribute to the definition of our data integration practices and the technical vision of our data warehouse.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure all ETL processes meet high standards for reliability, maintainability, and performance.
- Complex Problem Solving: Tackle and resolve intricate technical challenges, applying your deep expertise in data integration.
Required education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor’s Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Technical Expertise: Advanced knowledge of databases, data modelling, and SQL, along with experience with data integration tools (e.g., Informatica, Talend, Pentaho).
- Leadership: Demonstrated leadership qualities, with a proven track record of guiding teams and delivering projects.
- Problem‑Solving: Exceptional problem‑solving capabilities, with a history of effectively addressing and resolving complex engineering challenges in data integration.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Security: Understanding of data security principles in data integration and experience with data governance practices.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Experience with cloud‑based data storage and processing (e.g., AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse Analytics).
- Familiarity with data pipeline orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Luigi).
- Knowledge of data quality and metadata management practices.
- Understanding of data virtualisation and data federation techniques.
- Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark).
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.
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.
Job Title
Job ID
65631
City / Township / Village
State / Province
Country
United Kingdom
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Area of work
Infrastructure & Technology
Employment type
Regular
Position type
Professional
Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)
Company
Shift
General (daytime)
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