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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At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.
You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands‑on experience with cutting‑edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high‑profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.
We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in‑demand skills development, and long‑term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.
We offer:
Tools and policies to support your work‑life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.
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.
Our role and responsibilities
As an Associate Data Engineer, you’ll design and build the systems that let organisations turn raw data into real insight. You’ll work with modern tools, cloud platforms, and big‑data technologies to create pipelines, storage solutions, and architectures that keep data flowing smoothly and securely.
Your work will help data scientists, analysts, and business teams access clean, reliable, and scalable data — forming the foundation for dashboards, automation, and machine‑learning models. If you’re curious, analytical, and excited to solve real‑world problems, this role is built for you.
What You’ll Work on as an Associate Data Engineer:
- Design, build, and maintain data integration pipelines that connect multiple systems and data sources
- Work with super agents such as IBM Consulting Advantage & IBM BoB to responsibly use AI to augment your data engineering responsibilities
- Work with data transformation tools to extract, transform, and load data for reporting, AI, agentic & digital use cases
- Collaborate with a hybrid organisational hierarchy across both humans and agents that are cross functional, operating in a multidisciplinary team, including data scientists, platform engineers and business analysts to achieve project goals
- Physicalise data into a variety of different data platform technologies & formats including embedding data into vector databases to support generative or agentic ai use cases
- Support data modelling, data mapping, and documentation for integration workflows
- Troubleshoot pipeline issues, improve performance, and optimise processes
- Work with APIs, streaming data platforms, and batch workflows depending on project needsHelp implement data governance practices, including metadata, lineage, and quality checks
- Support cloud‑based data integration and automation using tools such as Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Google Dataflow, IBM watsonx.data integration, or similar platforms
Required education
Bachelor’s Degree
Preferred education
Master’s Degree
Required technical and professional expertiseRequired Technical Experience
- Experience with agentic data engineering patterns and principles
- Significant experience in prompt engineering and especially using responsible AI & agentic tools to accelerate the Data Development Lifecycle (DDLC)
- Experience with at least one programming/scripting language such as Python, SQL, or Scala
- Understanding of ETL/ELT concepts, data warehousing, and integration patterns
- Exposure to cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud)
- Familiarity with data modelling, database structures, and APIs
- Problem‑solving skills in debugging data quality, transformation, and pipeline issues
- Knowledge of tools such as DataStage, Informatica, Talend, dbt, Airflow, or similar (if applicable)
- Understanding of batch vs. real‑time data processing
- Capable of authoring data assets that are both human and machine readable. (appropriate documentation and metadata tagging etc)
Required Professional Skills
- Strong analytical approach to problem solving
- Ability to communicate the impact of data in general, engineering & integration to those around you, including & especially those who are not technical
- Capable of managing a data engineering agentic organisational hierarchy
- Capable of constructing a complex prompt to instruct and guide an agent’s behaviour
- A quantified intellectual curiosity and a capability of adapting to new technologies, practices & frameworks for data engineering
- Strong communication skills and comfort explaining technical concepts clearly
- Ability to prioritise tasks and work in fast‑moving environments
- Growth mindset and willingness to learn quickly
Required Education Qualifications
Predicted a 2:1 Bachelor’s Degree or achieved in a STEM, Economics, Statistical degree or similar.
As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, all applicants must hold British Nationality, UK work permit, or indefinite leave to remain. We do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so and cannot take applications using the 2‑year UK Graduate Visa.
Due to client requirements, we need candidates to have a minimum of 5 years UK continuous residency.
This role is subject to pre‑employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS).
Application Deadline
The closing date for applications is Sunday, 12th April 2026. Please note, however, that we may close this role earlier if the volume of applications reaches our capacity. We highly recommend submitting your application before this date to avoid disappointment.
Assessment Availability Requirements
Assessment Centres are scheduled for the week commencing 11th May. Your availability for this week is critical as Assessment Centre attendance is mandatory and there will be no option to choose your date. Spots are limited, so please ensure your calendar is clear.
In the event you progress to the Final Interview stage, these will take place during the week commencing Monday, 18th May. Again, your attendance is mandatory and there will be no flexibility in scheduling. You will be allocated a slot, so please make sure your schedule is free for this week.
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
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.
IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
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