Description

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, the candidate will work with our electric utilities clients in the US to understand their grid modernization goals and help achieve them. Specifically in areas of Transmission and Distribution, Energy Management Systems (EMS), SCADA, Distribution Management Systems (DMS), Distributed Energy Management Systems (DERMS), Smart Meters (AMI), and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It will involve understanding utility processes in the context of implementing these technologies and platforms and performing Data work and analytics.

As a Data Engineer with Advanced Analytics expertise, you will specialize in formulating mathematical approaches to solve complex business problems and utilize predictive analytics tools to draw conclusions and present findings. You will design, build, and manage solutions that involve preparing data, performing statistical analysis, and deploying analysis results. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Design Advanced Analytics Solutions: Develop and implement mathematical optimization, discrete-event simulation, and rules programming approaches to address complex business challenges. This involves preparing data, performing statistical analysis, and deploying results.

• Build Predictive Models: Utilize predictive analytics tools like SPSS to analyze data, identify patterns, and draw meaningful conclusions that inform business decisions.

• Manage Data Engineering Projects: Oversee the preparation, collection, and mining of data to ensure seamless solution delivery and effective insights generation.

• Deploy Analysis Results: Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders, ensuring that insights are actionable and drive business value.

• Apply Data Engineering Principles: Ensure that all solutions adhere to data engineering principles, enabling efficient and scalable advanced analytics projects.

This role can be performed from anywhere in the US.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

None

Required technical and professional expertise

• Mathematical Optimization Expertise: Experience with mathematical optimization techniques, including developing and implementing approaches to address complex business challenges, and applying data engineering principles to ensure efficient and scalable solutions.

• Predictive Analytics Tools: Experience working with predictive analytics tools like SPSS to analyze data, identify patterns, and draw meaningful conclusions that inform business decisions.

• Data Engineering Principles: Experience in designing, building, and managing solutions that involve preparing data, performing statistical analysis, and deploying analysis results, with a strong understanding of data engineering principles.

• Statistical Analysis and Modeling: Experience with statistical analysis and modeling techniques, including data mining and text mining, to drive business insights and inform decision-making.

• Solution Delivery and Management: Experience in managing data engineering projects, overseeing the preparation, collection, and mining of data to ensure seamless solution delivery and effective insights generation.

Preferred technical and professional experience

•Utilities - electric operations and asset management experience is a plus - either as a utility employee or in a consulting services capacity.

Discrete-Event Simulation Expertise: Experience with discrete-event simulation techniques, including developing and implementing approaches to address complex business challenges. Ability to apply data engineering principles to ensure efficient and scalable solutions. • Rules Programming Knowledge: Exposure to rules programming approaches, including designing and implementing solutions that involve preparing data and performing statistical analysis. • Text Mining Techniques: Experience with text mining techniques, including data mining and statistical analysis to drive business insights and inform decision-making.

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 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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Job Title

Scaling Technical Lead

Date posted

24-Apr-2026

Job ID

111955

City / Township / Village

Houston

State / Province

Texas

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

116,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

216,000.00

Position type

Professional

Travel required

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

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No



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