Data & Cloud Data Platforms Solution Lead Associate

**Company Description **KPMG Data & Cloud **is a team with a passion for helping our clients solve their business challenges. We achieve this through business solutions that unlock insights and value from data. Leveraging the "One KPMG" approach, our team works collaboratively with the wider KPMG service lines to provide our clients with industry-specific, tailored proposals that result in highly differentiated business transformation outcomes. **Job Description **The Data Platforms Solution Lead takes responsibility for the architecture and design of the data components that form our technological solutions. You will work proactively to: - Understand and interpret business objectives and requirements to design and develop the Data architecture and component designs and perform software vendor assessments. - Deliver new and complex solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements or desired business outcomes. - Be responsible for solution design throughout the development lifecycle, from solution conception, through to successful implementation and iteration. - Develop level of effort estimates and resource skill requirements for solution development, testing and deployment. - Lead technical solution delivery to ensure that the development, testing and deployment align with architectural intent. - Contribute to the definition and enhancement of technical disciplines within the practice. **How are you extraordinary? **You bring to the role: - Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, with a knack for distilling complex and/or technical problems in environments that are often ambiguous. - An understanding of tailoring the solutions we build for the owners of the solutions (our clients) - A disciplined approach to problem solving and an ability to critically assess a range of information to differentiate true business needs as opposed to user requests. - Experience with a range of technical skills that could include: - Knowledge of architecting and engineering cloud-based data solutions with the following products - Snowflake - Cloud platforms with a focus on Paas or Serverless: - AWS: Redshift/RDS, S3, EC2, Lambda, step, EMR, Glue, DynamoDB, Athena, Kinesis, Cloudwatch, SQS, SNS, fargate - OR Azure: Blob storage, Synapse, Data Factory, Functions, CosmosDB, Databricks, log analytics, Event hub, Azure Kubernetes Service - Programming languages such as Java, Node, C#, Go, Python, Scala, SAS, R. - Experience with DevOps principles and tools, including: - Agile enterprise development environments, CICD implementation, continuous testing, Cloud resource management (CloudFormation, terraform, ARM templates, pulumi etc..), automation of environment deployment. - Continuous Integration/Delivery tools such as Jenkins, AWS code, Azure DevOps or other similar industry tools - Version control and development processes for data, low-level hardware and software configurations, and the code and configuration specific to each tool in the chain. - A proven ability to: - Build resilient, tested, data pipelines with statistical data quality monitoring embedded (DataOps) - Work with an existing lifecycle management framework to collect metadata, follow coding standards, use version control, complete documentation and write and execute unit tests. - Appropriately communicate discovered information to consumers, clearly using visual variables shape, colour, hue, orientation, etc. - Experience with SQL-based technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL and MySQL) and NoSQL technologies (e.g. Cassandra and MongoDB) - Experience of Data lake and Data warehousing solutions and architectures and low-level design principles **Additional Information KPMG is one of the most trusted and respected global professional services firms. We partner with clients across an array of industries to solve complex challenges, steer change, drive disruption, and enable growth. Our people are what make KPMG the thriving workplace that it is and what sets us apart is that we know great minds think differently. Collaborate with a team of passionate, highly skilled professionals who've got your back. You'll build relationships with unique and diverse colleagues who will provide you with the support you need to be your best and produce meaningful and impactful work in an inclusive, equitable culture. At KPMG, you'll take control over how you work. We're embracing a new way of working in many ways, from offering flexible hours and locations to generous paid parental leave and career breaks. Our people enjoy a variety of exciting perks, including retail discounts, health and wellbeing initiatives, learning and growth opportunities, salary packaging options and more. **At KPMG every career is different, and we look forward to seeing how you grow with us.