Data & Analytics Senior Federal Data Engineer Washington, US

Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting-Federal 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.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Senior 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 maintaining 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.
• Working 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.
• Building teams or writing programs to cleanse and integrate data in an efficient and reusable manner, developing predictive or prescriptive models, and evaluating modeling results.

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We have positions open in this location:

• Washington, DC

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Candidates must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Federal security clearance while in IBM Consulting-Federal.

The below requirements are a guideline. If you have transferable skills we encourage you to apply to this role.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Federal security clearance while in IBM Consulting – Federal.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• MA, MBA, MPA, MPP or MS at time of start.
• Availability to start in 2025.
• Relocation to the Washington, DC Metro Area.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 100%. While most projects are local to the DC Metro area, our portfolio of projects span across the U.S. Our Senior Consultants are not able to refuse assignments based on travel.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in pursuing your master’s degree with concentrations in one of the following areas:
  • Masters in Data Science, Data Engineering, Computer Science or similar field.
• Prior consulting and/or relevant work experience in one of the following industries: Federal, State & Local Government.
• A passion for the Federal Sector, coupled with the ability to understand challenges that governments and their workers face and the ability to provide solutions that will provide long term value to the citizens of this country.
• Capacity and eagerness to learn new assignments, systems, and tools.
• Aptitude for technology tools and applications.
• Experience or certification working in the Agile method and/or Six Sigma.
• Developing business cases.