Consulting Associate Data Engineer - Entry Level Bedford, CA

At IBM, we know technology. But technology is only as good as the results it delivers. Are you interested and adept in application development methodology and tools? The IBM Client Innovation Centre (CIC) : Halifax occupies a unique position in the IT marketplace – at the intersection of business and technology.

In this role, you'll work in our IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. These delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

As a member of our team, you will help IBM clients solve some of their most challenging business problems, capitalize on market opportunities and achieve real value in today’s tough economy.

We’re looking for passionate, original thinkers who want to drive progress, grow their network, and further their careers. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning, who believes no problem is too big to solve, and who wants to unleash their potential, an Associate role is for you.

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

Participate in data ingestion processes from diverse sources such as Snowflakes and ProsOD3, cleansing, transforming, curating, validating, partitioning, and storing data in delta formats.

Assist in developing and optimizing SQL queries using PL / SQL, integrating them with front‑end applications.

Support Data Scientists by providing model input in the required format, collaboratively working towards creating predictive models.

Contribute to the creation of PowerBI reports based on business requirements, learning from senior team members.

Participate in root cause analysis of production issues, contributing in bug resolution, automation, change assessment, and implementing / deploying change requests.

Collaborate closely with stakeholders and business users to gather requirements and plan work during Sprint planning, gaining insights into project scope and objectives.

Work alongside DevOps engineers on Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI / CD) deployments and code repositories, learning about best practices and infrastructure management.

Document application workflows and activities.

Required education

Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred education

Master’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

You have the ability to work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand requirements, design, code and test innovative applications, and support those applications for our highly valued customers.

You are great at solving problems, debugging, troubleshooting, designing and implementing solutions to complex technical issues.

You have experience coding and using databases.

You have basic knowledge or hands on coding experience in one or more of the following technology areas : Azure Databricks, Spark, Python, Snowflake, Delta Lake architecture, Azure Data Lake Gen2, Azure Data Factory, and SQL Server.

Basic skills in PowerBI for report generation.

Introduction to Azure DevOps and Agile methodologies.

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

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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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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

Job Title

Associate Data Engineer - Entry Level

Job ID

64432

City / Township / Village

Bedford

State / Province

Nova Scotia

Country

Canada

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Consulting

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Position type

Entry Level

Up to 20% or 1 day a week

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

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