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KPMG is currently seeking a Lead Specialist to join our Federal Advisory practice.
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
Qualifications:
- A minimum of five years of Data Architecture / technical experience; U.S. Federal government consulting experience preferred
- 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
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