Lead Specialist, Federal Data Architect

KPMG

$90K — $120K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of Data Architecture or technical experience; preferred experience in U.S. Federal government consulting
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
  • Knowledge of Data Lake and Data Warehouse architecture, implementation, and dimensional modeling best practices
  • Understanding of data governance strategies including metadata and master data management
  • Proficient with data modeling tools like ERWin and IBM Data Architect
  • Strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational and distributed databases
  • Must possess a U.S. Government Secret clearance

Responsibilities

  • Drive the execution of data supply chain projects, ensuring risk management in data delivery processes
  • Facilitate workshops with clients and cross-functional teams to identify analytical opportunities
  • Collaborate with clients to discover and request data sources, managing ETL/ELT processes
  • Assist in developing analytics and machine learning models from inception through implementation
  • Monitor and report key business metrics for project success
  • Create and oversee reporting processes and dashboards for data analysis
  • Utilize modern big data tools to address complex business challenges

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental plans
  • Vision coverage and disability/life insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Personal well-being benefits, including mental health support
  • Personal Time Off (PTO) and holiday breaks
  • Flexible work environment with a focus on work-life balance
Full Job Description
Responsibilities:
  • Support the delivery of data supply chain projects, including definition of objectives / key deliverables while managing and mitigating risks in data, modeling, validation, and delivery
  • Support workshops and innovation sessions with clients, multi-disciplinary, and cross-functional teams to identify business opportunities, define problem statements, and design high level analytical solutions
  • Engage with clients to discover data sources and create data requests; Engage in data discovery and ETL/ELT processes to ingest structured data and annotation processes to enrich unstructured data leveraging a variety of data sources (social media, news, internal / external documents, financial data, operational data)
  • Support the creation of analytics and machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation
  • Define, monitor, and report key business metrics
  • Design, implement, and manage various reporting processes and dashboards
  • Leverage a variety of modern big data tools and approaches to solve complex business objectives

Qualifications:
  • A minimum of five years of Data Architecture / technical experience; U.S. Federal government consulting experience preferred
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university
  • Familiarity with Data Lake / Data Warehouse architecture, design, implementation, dimensional modeling, data profiling, and source to target mapping best practices
  • Familiarity with data governance and management strategies, including data standards, data policies, metadata management, master data management
  • Experience utilizing data modeling tools such as ERWin, ER Studio, Power Designer, IBM Data Architect
  • Strong SQL skills and working knowledge of relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL; knowledge of distributed databases such as Netezza, Teradata, Amazon Redshift etc.
  • Ability to travel as required to support firm engagements
  • Initial project will be located in the St. Louis, MO region, requires daily on-site presence
  • Applicant must possess a U.S. Government Secret clearance


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