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. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
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Your role and responsibilities
We're seeking a skilled and innovative Senior Data Engineer/Scientist to join our team onsite in Omaha, Nebraska. This role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining robust data infrastructure, as well as leveraging advanced analytics to drive business value. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data modeling, ETL processes, and database management, with a knack for continuous improvement and adaptation.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Modeling and Prediction: Implement novel mechanisms for behavior modeling and prediction, enhancing our data-driven decision-making capabilities.
2. Collaborative Data Mart Development: Work closely with cross-functional teams to design, maintain, and optimize data marts, ensuring a stable and efficient reporting infrastructure.
3. Research and Improvement: Lead research projects aimed at refining data processing workflows and machine learning frameworks utilized by the team.
4. Data Engineering and Governance Support: Provide comprehensive engineering services for database design, implementation, maintenance, optimization, and security across diverse environments (development, testing, production).
5. Database Management: Develop, build, and deploy MS SQL, MySQL, and Oracle databases, ensuring accurate implementation following blueprints or specifications.
6. Architectural Support: Deliver rapid data pivoting and support for mission-critical and business systems databases, enabling swift adaptation to evolving requirements.
7. Enterprise Data Model Administration: Utilize data modeling tools to manage, administer, and evolve the Enterprise Data Model (EDM), delivering complete data definition language, physical, and logical model objects.
8. Technical Leadership: Serve as a technical expert across multiple projects, providing guidance, mentorship, and architectural support to team members.
9. Supervisory Responsibilities: Oversee the work of junior team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
10. Deliverables: Produce and maintain high-quality deliverables, including technical documentation, database schemas, and analytical models, in alignment with project timelines and quality standards.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Proven experience as a Data Engineer/Scientist, with a strong background in data modeling, ETL, and database administration.
- Expertise in SQL, PL/SQL, and NoSQL databases, with experience in MS SQL, MySQL, and Oracle.
- Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and maintain data processing pipelines and machine learning frameworks.
- Experience in administrating Enterprise Data Models (EDMs) and data modeling tools.
- Track record of driving continuous improvement in data infrastructure and analytical processes.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with experience in mentoring or supervising junior team members.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
Location: Onsite in Omaha, NE, 5 days per week.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Data Engineering Proficiency: Strong experience in data wrangling, transformation, and pipeline development, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the data engineering lifecycle.
Certifications:
- 8140 Certification: Level 421 - Intermediate certification is required.
- Cloud Computing: Cloud+ certification or equivalent (e.g., CompTIA Cloud+, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner).
- Information Security: Either SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner), Security+ certification, or GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC).
- Alternatively, an applicable degree from an ABET-accredited institution or a CAE-designated program may be considered in lieu of specific certifications.
Clearance: Active TS/SCI - Candidates must possess a Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance or TS/SCI Eligible.
Preferred technical and professional experience
Data Governance and Quality: Understanding of data governance best practices, data lineage, metadata management, and data quality assurance.
Collaboration and Communication: Strong collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with data scientists, data analysts, and other stakeholders.
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.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
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 50 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.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
IBM offers a competitive benefits program which may include medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, mental health & well being, 8 paid holidays, minimum 56 hours paid sick time, 80 hours paid vacation, life insurance, 401(k), financial counseling, and the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan. IBM offers paid family medical leave and disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
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.