Senior Associate, Federal Data Engineer

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KPMG is currently seeking an Senior Associate in Federal Digital Lighthouse for our Federal Advisory practice. 

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary and cross-functional tams to provide data analytics support for our federal client in the development and operation of program integrity and financial oversight functions of the government marketplaces and marketplace-related premium stabilization programs . The engagement includes assistance with quality assurance, data quality analysis and compliance reviews
• Work with clients and team leads to discover data sources in client cloud environment, create data requests; utilize the ETL process to ingest and enrich structured and unstructured data; design, implement, ad test data processing pipelines, and data mining/data science algorithms on a variety of hosted settings
• Rapidly learn and understand client business processes by reviewing technical documentation, business catalogs, white papers and deep dive into KPMG's client data to better understand the relationship between datasets, client systems and data sources
• Design tools and services useful in cloud DevOps environments such as performance monitoring, security monitoring, deployment/configuration, continuous integration/build servers, and cloud resource creation scripts
• Help drive the process for pursing innovations, target solutions, and extendable platforms for KPMG and clients; participate in developing and presenting thought leadership and help to ensure that the Lighthouse technology stack incorporates and its optimized for using specific technologies

Qualifications:

• Minimum three years of experience in developing high-quality scripts and queries, data pipelines, ETL, visualizations, and visualization dashboards
• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree from an accredited college/university 
• Proficiency with programming languages such as Python, and Scala and their open source packages/libraries
• Market-leading fluency in Linux/Unix tools, Shell Script/Bash and Job schedulers such as Cron job
• Hands-on experience in using data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, QlikView, PowerBI) and ability to design and create sophisticated interactive reports and dashboards
• Experience maintaining production data environment (database migrations, artifacts infrastructure and code deployment)
• Familiarity with cloud and distributed systems principles (load balancing network, scaling, in-memory vs disk, etc.)
• Familiarity with big data open source tools such as Spark, Hadoop, Kubernetes is a plus
• U.S. citizenship required and an active U.S. Federal government Top Secret security clearance

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