Internship Ibm Data Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA (NOW HIRING)

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.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior Data Engineer within Data & Analytics Platforms, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable, reliable data engineering solutions that underpin analytics, data science, and AI use cases across client environments. You will work across modern data platforms, integrations, and pipelines, supporting a wide range of analytical and AI driven projects.

This role focuses on building the data foundations required for advanced analytics and AI, working closely with data scientists and client stakeholders to ensure data is accessible, trusted, and fit for purpose.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of robust data pipelines and data platforms to support analytics and AI workloads
• Build and maintain batch and streaming data solutions, including ingestion, transformation, and orchestration
• Design appropriate data models using relational, dimensional, or other modelling techniques, selecting approaches based on the requirements of analytics, reporting, and data science use
• Collaborate across multiple teams and client stakeholders to design and deliver end to end data and AI solutions within the wider client technology
• Work across cloud based data platforms and services (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Design and deliver data solutions that are functionally correct and fit for purpose, while meeting non functional requirements such as security, performance, resilience, and maintainability
• Support and guide junior engineers through technical leadership and mentoring
• Contribute to platform and engineering standards, best practices, and continuous improvement across engagements

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong experience with Python, SQL, and data engineering frameworks or tools
• Proven experience designing and delivering data pipelines and data platforms in a professional environment
• Hands on experience with cloud data services (e.g. Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, AWS Glue, Redshift, BigQuery, or equivalents)
• Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases
• Solid understanding of data modelling, integration patterns, and data quality principles
• Strong problem solving and communication skills, with experience working in multidisciplinary delivery teams

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Familiarity with data pipeline orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Luigi).
• Knowledge of data quality and metadata management practices.
• Understanding of data virtualisation and data federation techniques.
• Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark).
• Experience supporting analytics, data science, or machine learning use cases
• Exposure to streaming or event driven architectures (e.g. Kafka or equivalent)
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, or platform automation
• Background delivering solutions in regulated or security constrained environments such as public sector or financial services

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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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.

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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.

Job Title

Job ID

114161

City / Township / Village

State / Province

Hampshire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Data & Analytics

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?