Job Summary:
The Lead Data Engineer is expected to be an expert at effectively working with
business partners to understand their data needs and develop technical designs
and requirements to meet those needs. This role is the team leader in helping
extract, transform, and store the Firm’s valuable data assets to achieve better
operational efficiencies and provide better services to its clients through
modern data movement pipelines. This role, in collaboration with other data
engineers, data architects, and other IT teams, will operationalize and document
data extraction and ingestion platforms. This role is the team’s leader for
developing strategies, policies, and governance models to ensure the Firm’s data
remains accurate, timely and relevant to the Firm’s goals. This role will
provide guidance and mentorship to junior data engineers, as well as helping
delegate work items and tickets across the Data Engineering team.
Job Duties:
Works with stakeholders and data architects to define and design data
solutions to support the Firm’s data initiatives
Understands and locates where data assets exist within the Firm’s systems and
design solutions integrating disparate data sources to solve problems and
provide business value
Collaborates with project managers to provide effort estimates and provides
technical leadership in solution design and requirements
Works closely with data governance to ensure principles are followed through
the course of day-to-day data usage and solution design
Prepares mock-up solution designs, visualizations and reports to effectively
demonstrate proposed solutions and deliverables
Acts as a subject matter expert, evangelist and catalyst to educate on the
Firm’s data platforms and best practices as they relate to the usage and
hygiene of the Firm’s data assets
Meets regularly with business line customers to gain a better understanding
of their business processes and of the customer's evolving data needs to help
identify potential data-related projects
Works with data scientists and developers to use emerging and advanced
technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify
and extrapolate hidden patterns and trends, increasing the value of the
Firm’s data
Builds and maintains constructive working relationships with project team
members, vendors and other departments involved with projects, systems, and
IT strategies
Serves as a technical expert and lead to other team members, reviewing
proposed solution designs, conducting code reviews, and troubleshooting
advanced technical issues
Identifies and executes continuous improvement efforts to ensure the Firm’s
data remains accurate and timely
Works closely with the Information Security and Compliance teams to ensure
the firm’s data strategy and technologies meet or exceed both internal
policies and external regulatory requirements
Collaborates with BDO Global and other BDO member firms to ensure standards
between organizations are followed in support of reusable models and rapid
deployment of shared technology
Understands and follows Project Management basics and Project Management
Office policies and procedures
Other duties as required
Supervisory Responsibilities:
N/A
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Education:
High School Diploma or GED, required
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Management, Mathematics,
or Statistics, preferred
Experience:
Eight (8) or more years working as a data engineer, data analyst or similar
analyst/engineer roles, required
Eight (8) or more years working with PowerBI, Tableau or similar data
visualization products, required
Five (5) or more years working within commercial cloud platforms such as
Microsoft Azure, AWS, or GCP, required
Three (3) or more years using version control tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub),
required
Demonstrable proficiency in developing and understanding custom and ad-hoc
SQL queries, required
Experience working within a large, complex enterprise with significant
regulatory and compliance requirements, preferred
Experience using a modern scripting language such as Python, Scala, R, or
Java, preferred
Professional service firm experience, preferred
Software:
Strong proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office suite, specifically Excel,
required
Strong proficiency in the use of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), or
similar, required
Strong proficiency in the use of PowerBI, Tableau, Looker, Qlik, or similar,
required
Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Strong analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills
Excellent written communication skills, maintaining accurate documentation
and technical authorship of complex documents
Ability to facilitate meetings efficiently and effectively
Ability to follow an issue through to its logical conclusion, and escalate as
necessary
Ability to work independently as well as part of a team, including providing
technical leadership to less experienced colleagues
Excellent interpersonal and customer relationship skills
Capable of working in a deadline-driven environment, while handling multiple
complex projects/tasks simultaneously with a focus on details
Capable of working well under pressure while dealing with unexpected issues
in a professional manner
Ability to work after hours and weekends as needed
Capacity to travel as needed
Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after
consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate’s
qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.
National Range: $138,000 - $170,000
Maryland Range: $138,000 - $170,000
NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $138,000 - $170,000
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