SaT-DnA-Data Engineer-Assistant Director

The opportunity

We're looking for Assistant Director - Data Engineering. The main objective of the role is to support cloud and on-prem platform analytics and data engineering projects initiated across engagement teams. The role will primarily involve conceptualizing, designing, developing, deploying and maintaining complex technology solutions which help EY solve business problems for the clients. This role will work closelywith technical architects, product and business subject matter experts (SMEs), back-end developersand other solution architects and is also on-shore facing.

This role will be instrumental in designing, developing, and evolving the modern data warehousing solutions and data integration build-outs using cutting edge tools and platforms for both on-prem and cloud architectures. In this role you will be coming 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

Skills and attributes for success

• 12-14 years of total experience with 8+ years in Data warehousing/ Business Intelligence field
• Solid hands-on 8+ 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)
• 5+ years experience in Azure database offerings [ Relational, NoSQL, Datawarehouse]
• 5+ 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 8 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
• 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
• Strong project and people management skills with experience in serving global clients

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or equivalent work experience.
• Fact driven and analytically minded with excellent attention to details
• Hands-on experience with data engineering tasks such as building analytical data records and experience manipulating and analysing large volumes of data
• Relevant work experience of minimum 12 to 14 years in a big 4 or technology/ consulting set up
• Help incubate new finance analytic products by executing Pilot, Proof of Concept projects to establish capabilities and credibility with users and clients. This may entail working either as an independent SME or as part of a larger team

Ideally, you'll also have

• Ability to think strategically/end-to-end with result-oriented mindset
• Ability to build rapport within the firm and win the trust of the clients
• Willingness to travel extensively and to work on client sites / practice office locations
• Strong experience in SQL server and MS Excel plus atleast one other SQL dialect e.g. MS AccessPostgresqlOracle PLSQLMySQLStrong in Data Structures & Algorithm
• Experience of interfacing with databases such as Azure databases, SQL server, Oracle, Teradata etc
• Preferred exposure to JSON, Cloud Foundry, Pivotal, MatLab, Spark, Greenplum, Cassandra, Amazon Web Services,Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Informatica, Angular JS, Python, etc.
• Experience with Snowflake