Data Engineer - Data Platforms

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 are looking for motivated and tech-passionate individuals to join our Data Engineering & AI Delivery teams and contribute to the design, development, and operation of modern data platforms.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with technical and business teams to understand data requirements, integration needs, and platform constraints.
• Build, maintain, and optimize data ingestion pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows across heterogeneous systems.
• Support the orchestration of data workflows, ensuring reliability, monitoring, and scalability.
• Contribute to the deployment and operational management of data and AI solutions in cloud-based environments.
• Assist in troubleshooting data quality issues, ingestion failures, and infrastructure-related incidents.
• Work closely with architects and senior engineers to enable MLOps practices, ensuring smooth integration between data pipelines, model deployment, and cloud services.
• Help document technical designs, configuration details, and operational procedures.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Minimum 2 years of experience working in data engineering, data platform development, or data integration.
• Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, and optionally Java for distributed processing or backend components.
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and ingestion frameworks.
• Knowledge of workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, IBM DataStage Flow Designer, Prefect, Luigi).
• Understanding of cloud environments, ideally IBM Cloud, including object storage, compute, IAM, and networking fundamentals.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Exposure to MLOps concepts, CI/CD, or automation pipelines supporting ML lifecycle operations.
• Solid understanding of database principles, data modeling concepts, and best practices for data quality and reliability.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Agile mindset-ability to adapt quickly, learn continuously, and use critical thinking to solve engineering challenges.
• Experience with data governance, metadata management, or cataloging tools.
• Exposure to logging, monitoring, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry).
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, serverless functions, or distributed data processing (Spark, Flink, etc.).
• Interest in pursuing cloud, DevOps, or MLOps certifications (IBM Cloud, Red Hat, AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Availability to travel when required.

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.

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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.

Client-provided location(s): Bari, Italy

Job ID: IBM-76317

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-11-26T18:51:55