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KPMG US · 6 hours ago

Lead Specialist, Federal Data Architect

St Louis, MO

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

KPMG is currently seeking a Lead Specialist to join their Federal Advisory practice. The role involves supporting the delivery of data and AI engagements, managing risks, and designing analytical solutions while collaborating with clients and cross-functional teams.

Financial Services

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Support the delivery of data / AI engagements, 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

Qualification

Data ArchitectureData Lake/WarehouseData GovernanceSQLData Modeling ToolsRelational DatabasesSoft Skills

Required

A minimum of five years of Data Architecture / technical experience

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