The Team
At KPMG our Data Team focuses on enabling our Financial Services clients to optimise the use of their data to deliver on their business strategy.
As an Assistant Manager, you will be joining a collaborative and energetic team. Our team covers a broad range of data Capabilities including Data Visualisation, Data Management, Data Migration, Data Architecture, Data Integration and Data Modelling.
You will work across all our capabilities but will specialise and become an SME within Data Engineering. We are looking for a proactive individual who is passionate about data, working with clients, has a thirst to learn and is excited to support us in growing our team.
The Person
Our Data team is growing at a fast pace and as this continues, we want to ensure we are fostering an enjoyable and supportive place to work. Therefore, we are seeking people with high energy who can:
cover a vast range of data work in the team. For example:
- Build lasting client relationships with client stakeholders, actively building a network and range of experience to help address client needs.
- Build constructive working relationships within KPMG and the industry across different teams, functions and countries at all levels.
- Work with subject matter experts and project teams to identify, define, collate, document and communicate the data requirements.
- Support the growth of the practice through internal initiatives and support winning new business through developing bid responses.
- Inspire change and make an impact within the team and in a client organisation.
- Coach and develop junior colleagues.
- Prior consulting experience is desirable, but not essentialFrom a technology point of view, we are looking for people who have demonstrable experience in data ingestion and who possess the following data skills:
- Demonstrable experience in optimising integration pipes
- SQL knowledge and database experience working on relational, dimensional and no-SQL techniques.
- Data Analysis experience such as data mapping between various source systems and target systems and defining the data transformation rules.
- Experience in Data Integration technologies and techniques like ETL, Unix scripting, real time data ingestion and API based integration.
- Experience in data modelling, including exposure to Kimball dimensional modelling
- Experience in Data Storage, to include Hadoop based technologies such as Hortonworks and Cloudera.
- Good understanding of Cloud platforms including AWS, Azure and Google. Since it will be a consulting role, you will be expected to demonstrate:
- In-depth current sector experience in either Banking, Capital Markets or Insurance with knowledge of key business drivers and key regulations in the industry (e.g. GDPR, BCBS 239, IFRS, AML, MiFID II, and Solvency II).
- Work with stakeholders to assess scope, develop business cases for data change and deliver benefits by leveraging industry insights.
- Support in developing the strategy, scoping, planning, implementation and execution of a data solution where you are expected to operate with minimum supervision.
- Build constructive working relationships within KPMG and the industry across different teams, functions and countries at all levels.
- Maintain an up-to-date view of industry trends and tools to enhance the delivery of data migration projects.
At KPMG, your long-term future is every bit as important to us as it is to you. That's why our aim is to give you experiences that will stay with you for a lifetime. Whether it's great training and development, mobility opportunities or corporate responsibility volunteering activities - you'll gain a wealth of experiences on which to build a rewarding career. We're a firm that encourages you to be yourself, values your contribution, and inspires you to act as a role model, always focused on doing the right thing for each other, our clients and our communities.
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While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a balanced lifestyle. We offer part time roles with flexible working arrangements which could include, annualised hours, early or late starts to fit around other commitments, shorter working days etc. We are happy to discuss your own requirements and our range of flexible working arrangements in more detail, should that be of interest and, as part of the recruitment process, we can put you in touch with people who work flexibly.
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