Sr. Associate, Data Engineer - PySpark

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 Sr. Associate, Data Science Engineer to join our Consulting practice.Responsibilities:Translate advanced business analytics problems into technical approaches that yield actionable recommendations, in diverse domains. Communicate technical details of solution, including mathematical formulations, alternatives, and impact on modeling approach to business stakeholders across industries (technology, financial services, emerging tech, government agencies - federal, state and local, and utilities).Plan engagement objectives, key deliverables, and deliver on engagement milestones by following analytics processes; Work with clients to discover, retrieve, prepare, and process a variety of data sources (social media, news, internal/external documents, emails, financial, and operational).Work internally within KPMG's other areas within Tax, Audit and Advisory to advance the client understanding of Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Advanced Analytics; Work very closely with emerging technologies group within AI service providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) to provide a first-in-market solution approaches to complex business problems. Utilize structured approaches to solving problems, managing risks, and multiple responsibilities using structured approaches for operational excellence; Communicate results to executive level audiences.Leverage deep technical knowledge to build, review, and quality control code to prepare, extract, and enrich data sources, working with the business to understand available resources and constraints around data. Lead team in exploratory data analysis, generating and testing working hypotheses, and uncovering interesting trends and relationships. Provide expert oversight for teams building machine learning algorithms and data science solutions.Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environmentQualifications:Minimum of three years of experience in requirements gathering, and quality management using analytics and software development processes for natural language processing, machine learning on unstructured data, and/or information retrieval; Multidisciplinary backgrounds.Master's degree from an accredited college/university in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Engineering, or related fields; PhD from an accredited college/university is preferredProven experience delivering end-to-end analytics and data engineering solutions, including data discovery, cleansing, model development, validation, deployment, and MLOps, with hands-on expertise in Python, PySpark, SQL, Databricks, and Snowflake, while partnering with clients and cross-functional teams to solve complex business challenges and drive measurable outcomes.Ability to apply artificial intelligence techniques to achieve concrete business goals; ability to work with the business to understand available resources and constraints around data (sources, integrity, and definitions), processing platforms, and security; Provide assistance, and resolve problems, using solid problem-solving skills and strong verbal/written communication.Ability to utilize a diverse array of technologies and tools as needed, to deliver insights, such as fluency in Python or R; Experience with SQL and cloud technology preferred; Experience with command-line scripting, data structures, and algorithms; Ability to work in Linux and/or cloud environments; Ability to write production level code.Ability to travel Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. 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