In this role you will join IBM Consulting via our world-class Associates Program for university hires. As an Associate Consultant at IBM Consulting you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of clients worldwide. Our clients' technical and business needs are constantly evolving. We're hiring inspired talented individuals who believe no problem is too big to solve.
We focus on your professional development through ongoing learning mentorship development of technical skills and continuous personal growth all grounded in a culture of coaching and career advancement. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning and who wants to unleash your potential the IBM Consulting Associates Program is for you.
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted in 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 for 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 that result 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.
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.
As an entry level Data Engineer at IBM you will harness the power of data to unveil captivating stories and intricate patterns. You'll contribute to data gathering storage and both batch and real-time processing.
Collaborating closely with diverse teams you'll play an important role in deciding the most suitable data management systems and identifying the crucial data required for insightful analysis. As a Data Engineer you'll tackle obstacles related to database integration and untangle complex unstructured data sets.
In this role your responsibilities may include:
•   Implementing and validating predictive models as well as creating and maintain statistical models with a focus on big data incorporating a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques
•   Designing and implementing various enterprise search applications such as Elasticsearch and Splunk for client requirements
•   Work in an Agile collaborative environment partnering with other scientists engineers consultants and database administrators of all backgrounds and disciplines to bring analytical rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of predicting behaviors.
•   Build teams or writing programs to cleanse and integrate data in an efficient and reusable manner developing predictive or prescriptive models and evaluating modeling results.
These positions are anticipated to start in 2026. We have positions opened in the Buffalo New York Client Innovation Center.
•   Ability to incorporate a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques
•   Basic understanding of Cloud (AWSAzure etc)
•   Ability to use programming languages like Java Python Scala etc. to build pipelines to extract and transform data from a repository to a data consumer
•   Ability to use Extract Transform and Load (ETL) tools and/or data integration or federation tools to prepare and transform data as needed.
•   Ability to use leading edge tools such as Linux SQL Python Spark Hadoop and Java
Required work location:
- Must be local to your assigned Client Innovation Center location or willing to relocate prior to your start date at your own expense
- Average onsite work requirement of 3 days per week
- Willingness to travel up to 100% as needed per project assignment requirements.
•   Basic understanding or experience with predictive/prescriptive modeling skills
•   You thrive on teamwork and have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
•   Ability to communicate with internal and external clients to understand and define business needs providing analytical solutions
•   Ability to ask business and industry questions to identify appropriate modeling techniques
•   Ability to communicate results to technical and non-technical audiences