SENIOR DATA STRATEGIST

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Must Have

• 4-6+ years in data-focused roles (analytics engineering, data engineering, data architecture, or technical product management)
• Direct hands-on work with cloud billing data from AWS, Azure or GCP
• Experience building or maintaining data models used by downstream analytics or reporting systems
• Track record solving complex data quality or normalization challenges

Technical Skills

• SQL expertise - Strong ability to write complex queries, investigate data quality issues, and understand query performance
• Data modeling - Deep understanding of dimensional modeling, normalization techniques, and schema design for analytics
• Data warehouse knowledge - Working experience with modern data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks)

Strategic & Business Skills

• Strategic thinking - Ability to define multi-year vision for data architecture and anticipate future needs
• Problem decomposition - Break down ambiguous problems into structured, actionable technical requirements
• Business acumen - Understand how data decisions impact customer value and business outcomes; prioritize based on impact
• Requirements translation - Convert business needs into clear data model specifications

Collaboration Skills

• Cross-functional partnership - Work effectively with engineering, product, and data science teams
• Clear communication - Explain complex data concepts to non-technical stakeholders; write clear documentation
• Influence without authority - Drive technical decisions and alignment across teams
• Comfort with ambiguity - Thrive in situations where ownership boundaries aren't perfectly clear.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Strong Preference For

• Experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, or observability platforms
• Multi-cloud environment experience-practical understanding of challenges unifying AWS/Azure/GCP data
• Exposure to data quality monitoring, schema evolution, or data testing frameworks

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with FOCUS (FinOps Cost and Usage Specification) schema
• Experience with AI/ML data pipelines
• Background in FinOps practices or FinOps Foundation certification
• Understanding of cloud APIs and billing APIs (AWS Cost Explorer API, Azure Consumption API, GCP Cloud Billing API)
• Knowledge of CSP government cloud billing structures

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Client-provided location(s): Texarkana, AR

Job ID: IBM-76111

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-11-27T18:50:39