Data Engineer (m/w/d)

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long‑term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll 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 in IBM Consulting. In this role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in groundbreaking impact for a wide network of clients.

Your Role And Responsibilities

As a Data Engineer – Data Platforms, you will develop, maintain, evaluate, and test data/AI solutions. You will be involved in data engineering activities like creating pipelines/workflows for source to target and implementing solutions that tackle the client’s needs.

Your Primary Responsibilities Include

• Stand up and operate cloud data/AI platforms (e.g. Databricks, Azure ML) with policies for security, access, backup/restore.
• Implement platform automation, cost controls, and environment management (dev/test/prod).
• Integrate platform telemetry into organization‑wide monitoring and dashboards.
• Design and implement ETL/ELT pipelines for AI training, validation, and inference use cases.
• Automate data refresh and quality checks; implement lineage and auditability.
• Collaborate on schema evolution, partitioning, cost/performance tuning.

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Strong fundamentals in Computer Science.
• Several years of experience in:
  • SQL, Python, Spark; Databricks notebooks/jobs; Delta Lake/Parquet.
  • Data quality tooling, orchestration (e.g. ADF, Airflow), and secure data access patterns.
  • Databricks administration, workspaces/jobs/compute; cloud IAM; network/security basics.
  • Scripting (Python/Bash), IaC (Terraform/ARM or equivalent).
• Flexible and adaptable with an aptitude for quick learning and applying new technologies.
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills, able to liaise effectively with different team members.
• Strong technical and analytical abilities, and a knack for driving impact and growth.
• Great at solving problems by looking at things differently, debugging, troubleshooting, and designing & implementing solutions to complex technical issues.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent verbal and written German (C1) and English (B2) language skills.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

• Information Technology
• IT Services and IT Consulting

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