The KPMG Advisory practice is at the forefront of transformation, offering excellent opportunities for individuals to advance their careers and expertise with KPMG. Looking ahead, we anticipate continued evolution and success within the practice, fostering both personal and professional development, thereby creating new pathways for growth. In this ever-changing market environment, our professionals must be adaptable and thrive in a collaborative, team-driven culture. At KPMG, our people are our number one priority. With a wealth of learning and career development opportunities, a world-class training facility, and leading market tools, we help our people continue to grow both professionally and personally. If you're looking for a firm with a strong team connection where you can be your whole self, have an impact, advance your skills, deepen your experiences, and have the flexibility and access to constantly find new areas of inspiration and expand your capabilities, then consider a career in Advisory.
KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Specialist to join our Federal Advisory practice.
Responsibilities:
- Utilize data wrangling tools and coding languages such as Python, PySpark, and SQL to extract valuable insights from data through analytics
- Assist in technical processes from ideation to delivery: Research, experiment, and utilizing data methodologies to build pipelines / scalable analytic tools using leading technologies
- Regularly conduct peer code reviews to ensure code quality and provide expert documentation / operating guidance for users
- Execute data operations essential for analysis, including tasks such as data cleansing, data integration, and data transformation
- Develop data engineering designs and translate efforts between business / technical stakeholders
- Monitor performance and reliability of data systems, identifying / resolving issues while proactively optimizing logic and model performance by code tuning, streamlining, resource allocation
Qualifications:
- A minimum of three years of technical data engineering experience; U.S. Federal government consulting experience preferred
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university
- Experience with programming languages (Python, PySpark, SQL)
- Experience with data quality management: Ability to ensure data integrity, accuracy, consistency through data validation, cleansing, and error handling techniques
- Experience with data processing / ETL knowledge: Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes and tools for data ingestion, integration, transformation
- Expertise with development tools / methodologies (Agile, git, test driven development, CI/CD release management)
- Proven ability to rapidly ingest, transform, engineer, and visualize data
- Ability to travel as required to support firm engagements
- Applicant must possess a U.S. Government Secret clearance
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