Data & Analytics AWS Data Engineer Professional Leicester, GB

A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• 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 personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

In this role, you will 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:

• Design and implement robust batch and real-time data pipelines using AWS Glue, EMR and Kinesis.
• Develop and maintain data layers across Redshift, Aurora and DynamoDB.
• Optimise data performance and ensure compliance with AWS security standards.
• Automate data workflows using Lambda and orchestration tools like Airflow or dbt.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts and architects to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Required education: None

Preferred education: Bachelor’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise:

• Strong proficiency in AWS data ecosystem (Glue, Redshift, EMR, Kinesis, S3).
• Expertise in Python, SQL or Scala for data processing.
• Knowledge of data warehouse and data lake architecture.
• Understanding of data security, compliance and performance tuning on AWS.
• Excellent communication and Agile collaboration skills.
• Data Reporting and Visualization.
• Scripting and Programming (SQL, Python etc.).
• Data Security and Compliance (AWS-specific).
• Monitoring and Logging (AWS-specific).
• Performance Optimization (AWS-specific).
• Collaboration and Communication.
• Agile Methodologies.

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.

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. 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.