What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Associate, Data Engineer position at KPMG?
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KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Associate, Data Engineer to join our Growth and Strategy organization.
Responsibilities:
- Assess, capture, and translate complex business issues and solution requirements into structured technical tasks for the data engineering team, including rapid learning of industry standards and development of effective work stream plans
- Work on the development of big data analytics and cloud-based applications to facilitate the work of data scientists and application developers
- Design, build, launch, optimize and extend full-stack data and business intelligence solutions spanning extraction, storage, complex transformation, and visualization layers
- Support build of big data environments that enable analytics solutions on a variety of big data platforms, including assessing the usefulness of new technologies and advocating for their adoption
- Serve as the primary point of contact for question and escalations related to data architecture and solutions applicable to business problems or use cases
Qualifications:
- Minimum three years of recent experience working as a Data Engineer
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university in a numerate subject such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, or Science, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience creating and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines that operate on a variety of sources, such as APIs, FTP sites, cloud-based blob stores, databases (relational and non-relational), unstructured data and GIS
- Prior experience working with operational programming tasks, such as version control, CI/CD, testing and quality assurance
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future
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