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Associate Data Scientist 2026

IBM, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290

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In this role, you will join IBM Consulting via our world‑class Associates Program for university hires. As an Associate Data Scientist at IBM Consulting, you will 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.

Your Role And Responsibilities

Implementing and validating predictive and prescriptive models, creating and maintaining statistical models with a focus on big data and incorporating machine learning techniques in your projects.

Writing programs to cleanse and integrate data in an efficient and reusable manner.

Working in an Agile, collaborative environment, partnering with other data scientists, engineers, consultants, and database administrators of all backgrounds and disciplines to bring analytical rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of predicting behaviors.

Communicating with internal and external clients to understand and define business needs and appropriate modeling techniques to provide analytical solutions.

Evaluating modeling results and communicating the results to technical and non‑technical audiences.

Locations

Atlanta, GA

Austin, TX

Chicago, IL

Houston, TX

New York, NY

Preferred Education Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

Strong fundamentals in Mathematics and Computer Science (algorithms)

Proficiency in at least one statistical programming language (R, Python, Scala, SAS, SPSS, Matlab)

Basic understanding or experience with predictive/prescriptive modeling skills

Strong technical and analytical abilities, a knack for driving impact and growth, and experience with programming/scripting in Java or Python

Great at solving problems by looking at things differently, debugging, troubleshooting, and designing and implementing solutions to complex technical issues

Willingness to travel up to 100%

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Thrives on teamwork and has excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Basic understanding of Cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.)

Familiarity with constructing usable data sets from multiple structured and unstructured data sources.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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