Kafka Data Engineer

3+ months ago• Manila, Philippines (+1 more)
Cebu City, Philippines

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IBM researches, develops, manufactures, and markets technology products ranging from mainframe computers to cognitive solutions, always with a core drive to innovate and explore new fields.
Size: 10000+ employees

Industry: Technology

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted in 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. You will 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 centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

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

A Data Engineer specializing in Data Platforms is responsible for building applications using Big Data technologies, with a strong emphasis on API development. The role demands expertise in traditional application development, analytics libraries, open-source NLP tools, and statistical computing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor development teams, ensuring quality and resolving technical challenges.
• Design and implement integration solutions using

Confluent Kafka,SOAP, and REST APIs.

• Collaborate across teams for seamless platform integration.
• Develop and test components throughout the software lifecycle.
• Work with both on-premise and cloud environments(e.g., Open Shift).
• Optimize performance through logging and monitoring.
• Actively participate in

Agile processes and continuous improvement efforts.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

We are seeking a highly skilled Integration Developer with leadership experience to join our team in delivering enterprise-grade solutions. This role involves hands-on development, team guidance, and integration of complex systems using modern frameworks and technologies. If you have a strong background in API development, Kafka, and cloud/on-premise solutions-and experience in the energy & utility industry-this is a great opportunity to make a significant impact.

• Required Professional and Technical Expertise
• 2-4 years of experience leading technical teams and reviewing work products.
• 2-5 years of hands-on development experience using Confluent Kafka.
• Strong experience with integration frameworks and API development (REST & SOAP).
• Proficiency in Python, Open Shift, and database technologies.
• Solid understanding of asynchronous messaging, logging, and middleware.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Ability to support testing teams and troubleshoot integration issues.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise:

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• Experience with CI/CD workflows, DevOps practices, and cloud-native development.
• Familiarity with performance tuning and scalable architecture design.

Nice-to-have:

• 5+ years of experience in the energy & utility industry.

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

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

Client-provided location(s): Manila, Philippines, Cebu City, Philippines

Job ID: IBM-57895

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-10T18:50:25
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