IT Data Engineering Manager

BDO USA, P.C.•Grand Rapids, MI

About The Position

The IT Data Engineering Manager is expected to use their strong business acumen and leadership skills to effectively guide the Data Engineering team to work with business partners to understand their data needs and develop technical designs and requirements to meet those needs. This role manages the Data Engineering team to take the lead in helping to identify, organize and report on the Firm’s valuable data assets to achieve better operational efficiencies, and provide better services to its clients through data-driven insights and actions. This role, in collaboration with data architects and other IT teams (such as, Business Analysts and Project Managers), will help develop standard processes, procedures, and guidelines to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of sustainable data solutions based on timely provision of requirements, following design standards/best practices, and appropriate IT and user testing. Finally, this role provides support in developing strategies, policies, and governance models to ensure data remains accurate, timely, and relevant to the Firm’s goals.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED, required
Demonstrable proficiency in successfully leading other developers in delivering complex data integration solutions, (required)
Six (6) or more years working as a data engineer, analyst, or extract/transform/load (ETL) developer, required
Three (3) or more years working with PowerBI, Tableau, or similar data visualization products, required
Demonstrable proficiency in developing and understanding custom, and ad-hoc SQL queries, required
Strong proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office suite, specifically Excel, required
Strong ability to mentor and coach data engineers in their development and support activities
Ability to effectively negotiate work request priorities with business requesters while maintaining good working relationships
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
Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment, while handling multiple complex projects/tasks simultaneously with a focus on details
Ability to work well under pressure while dealing with unexpected issues in a professional manner
Ability to work after hours and weekends as needed
Ability to travel as needed

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Management, Mathematics, or Statistics, preferred
Three (3) or more years working within commercial cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Azure, preferred
Experience working within a large, complex enterprise with significant regulatory and compliance requirements, preferred
Professional service firm experience, preferred

Responsibilities

Ensures Data Engineering team is working effectively with stakeholders and data architects to appropriately define and design data solutions to support the Firm’s data initiatives
Continually increases maturation of Data Engineering practices and processes to ensure proper level of planning, controls, documentation, and monitoring is in place to deliver high quality, sustainable work products
Collaborates with project managers to provide effort estimates, and provides technical leadership in solution design and requirements
Acts as a subject matter expert 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 line of business customers to gain a better understanding of their business processes and of the customer's evolving data needs in order to 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
Ensures data governance principles are followed through the course of day-to-day data usage, and solution design
Identifies and executes continuous improvement efforts regarding data operations 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