Consulting Graduate Data Consultant MELBOURNE, AU

2 weeks ago


Ballarat, Victoria, Australia International Business Machines Corporation Full time
In this role you will join IBM Consulting via our world class Associate Program for university hires. As an Associate 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 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 groundbreaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your role and responsibilities

Kick-start your career as a Data Consultant, where you'll design, build and optimize the systems and platforms that power modern data-driven business solutions. You'll work on real-world projects with the latest technologies that help our clients ingest, store, process and most importantly make sense of vast amounts of data.

As part of a collaborative high-performance team, you'll learn how to:

- Design and implement data pipelines for batch and real-time processing
- Build and maintain data models, integration processes and data quality and governance frameworks
- Work with relational and non-relational databases
- Leverage tools such as IBM's Watsonx, Data, Python, SQL, Spark, Kafka and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) to deliver scalable and AI-ready data solutions
- Apply data governance and security principles to ensure data is trusted and well-managed.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

- Be an Australian Citizen/Permanent Resident.
- Satisfy an AU Gov client Pre-Engagement Integrity Check
- Permanent Residents: Must have been an Australian resident for the past five (5) years.
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering or a related data field
- Strong problem-solving skills and an eagerness to learn new tools and technologies
- Basic programming experience in Python, Java, or similar
- Understanding of databases, data modelling and parallel data transformation concepts
- A collaborative mindset and strong communication skills are a must.

Preferred technical and professional experience

- Highly motivated, with clear evidence of drive and significant achievements
- A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view
- Drive to overcome the most challenging or difficult obstacles and look for ways to improve results
- Strong quantitative analysis skills and the ability to derive recommendations informed by data and insights
- Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently and meet deadlines, while maintaining focus in an environment with conflicting demands

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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 50 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 qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Job Title

Graduate Data Consultant

Job ID

52492

City / Township / Village

MELBOURNE

State / Province

Victoria

Country

Australia

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Consulting

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Entry Level

Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company

(0008) IBM Australia Limited

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

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