IBM is a leading technology company dedicated to solving some of the world's most challenging problems. They are seeking a Data Engineer to design, build, and implement complex Data & Analytics Solutions primarily on Microsoft Azure, while providing technical leadership and engaging with customers throughout the project lifecycle.
Responsibilities:
- Provide vision and leadership through the process of gathering business requirements and recommending solution architectures on Microsoft Azure, on premise or hybrid cloud implementations as necessary
- Continue to drive best practices throughout design, development, testing and final implementation with a project team
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship for all team members both onshore and offshore as needed
- Ensure the team is following standard best practices in the areas of data warehouse architecture, data transformation and processing (ELT,ETL), varied data load and management strategies, tabular model development and reporting
- Partner with customers, build relationships and drive a positive engagement experience that is fruitful for both our customers and the project team
- Resolve issues as necessary and set expectations to maintain a healthy work environment
- Leverage Neudesic’s Intellectual Property on implementations and become a thought leader on how we can continue to improve our capabilities resulting in efficient and consistent delivery for our customers
- Learn the customer’s business, becoming a thought leader on how to apply technology to solve business problems and opportunities
- Identify opportunities to provide additional services for customers in general and beyond the data & analytics domain as necessary
- Engage and help to drive the sales process with new and existing customers
- Identify scope, requirements and then build a vision of the solution including architecture, deliverables, resources, timeline and costs to deliver
Requirements:
- A minimum of 10 years' experience in consulting or contracting to deliver Data & Analytics solutions
- A solid technical foundation in a variety of technologies that support the delivery of Data & Analytics solutions on the Microsoft platform and more importantly now on Microsoft Azure
- Demonstrate an ability to architect Enterprise Data & Analytics Solutions on the Azure platform following recommended strategies and approaches to deliver in a fact paced environment for customers
- Experience working in a sales support role, creating a vision for best fit solutions based on customer requirements and then drafting estimates, proposals and Statements of Work to execute a project successfully
- Excellent oral, written and presentation skills
- Azure Implementation Experience including: Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse / Azure SQL / Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Analysis Services, Databricks, Azure Automation, Azure Key Vault, Azure Logic Apps, Azure AutoML PowerShell, Power BI
- Azure DevOps, Continuous Integration / Development pipelines
- On Premise: SQL Server, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Analysis, SQL Server Reporting Services. Fewer implementations today, but experienced candidates have a solid foundation in the Microsoft BI stack
- Bachelor's Degree
- Microsoft Azure Certified – Azure Data Engineer
- Experience with Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Experience with front-end tool implementations (Tableau, Qlik, Spotfire, etc.)
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP)