Chief Data Engineering Specialist

Job Opportunity

At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we're counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too.

About The Role

We're looking for an Associate Manager - Data Engineering to support cloud and on-prem platform analytics and data engineering projects initiated across engagement teams. This role will involve conceptualizing, designing, developing, deploying and maintaining complex technology solutions which help clients solve business problems. You'll work closely with technical architects, product and business subject matter experts (SMEs), back-end developers and other solution architects.
This role will be instrumental in designing, developing, and evolving modern data warehousing solutions and data integration build-outs using cutting-edge tools and platforms for both on-prem and cloud architectures. You will come up with design specifications, documentation, and development of data migration mappings and transformations for a modern Data Warehouse set up/data mart creation and define robust ETL processing to collect and scrub both structured and unstructured data providing self-serve capabilities (OLAP) in order to create impactful decision analytics reporting.

Your Key Responsibilities

- Evaluating and selecting data warehousing tools for business intelligence, data population, data management, metadata management and warehouse administration for both on-prem and cloud based engagements
- Strong working knowledge across the technology stack including ETL, ELT, data analysis, metadata, data quality, audit and design
- Design, develop, and test in ETL tool environment (GUI/canvas driven tools to create workflows)
- Experience in design documentation (data mapping, technical specifications, production support, data dictionaries, test cases, etc.)
- Provides technical leadership to a team of data warehouse and business intelligence developers
- Coordinate with other technology users to design and implement matters of data governance, data harvesting, cloud implementation strategy, privacy, and security
- Adhere to ETL/Data Warehouse development Best Practices
- Responsible for Data orchestration, ingestion, ETL and reporting architecture for both on-prem and cloud (MS Azure/AWS/GCP)
- Assisting the team with performance tuning for ETL and database processes

Required Skills and Qualifications

- Minimum of 7 years of total experience with 3+ years in Data warehousing/ Business Intelligence field
- Solid hands-on 3+ years of professional experience with creation and implementation of data warehouses on client engagements and helping create enhancements to a data warehouse
- Strong knowledge of data architecture for staging and reporting schemas ,data models and cutover strategies using industry standard tools and technologies
- Architecture design and implementation experience with medium to complex on-prem to cloud migrations with any of the major cloud platforms (preferably AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Minimum 3+ years experience in Azure database offerings [Relational, NoSQL, Datawarehouse]
- 2+ years hands-on experience in various Azure services preferred - Azure Data Factory,Kafka, Azure Data Explorer, Storage, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics ,Azure Analysis Services & Databricks
- Minimum of 3 years of hands-on database design, modeling and integration experience with relational data sources, such as SQL Server databases ,Oracle/MySQL, Azure SQL and Azure Synapse
- Strong in PySpark, SparkSQL
- Knowledge and direct experience using business intelligence reporting tools (Power BI, Alteryx, OBIEE, Business Objects, Cognos, Tableau, MicroStrategy, SSAS Cubes etc.)
- Strong creative instincts related to data analysis and visualization.
- Aggressive curiosity to learn the business methodology, data model and user personas.
- Strong understanding of BI and DWH best practices, analysis, visualization, and latest trends.
- Experience with the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and principles of product development such as installation, upgrade and namespace management
- Willingness to mentor team members
- Solid analytical, technical and problem solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

- Support, coaching and feedback from engaging colleagues
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
- The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you

About Working at EY

At EY, we're dedicated to helping our clients, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies - and the work we do with them is as varied as they are. You get to work with inspiring and meaningful projects. Our focus is education and coaching alongside practical experience to ensure your personal development. We value our employees and you will be able to control your own development with an individual progression plan.

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