IFS - Data Analytics & Technology - Data Engineer Manager

Job Description

Employment: Full Time Line of ServiceInternal Firm ServicesSpecialismIFS - Information Technology (IT)Management LevelManager& SummaryA career in our Information Strategy, Architecture, and Governance practice, within Data and Analytics Technology services, will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations uncover enterprise insights and drive business results using smarter data analytics. We focus on a collection of organisational technology capabilities, including business intelligence, data management, and data assurance that help our clients drive innovation, growth, and change within their organisations in order to keep up with the changing nature of customers and technology. Youll make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge.Our team focuses on helping clients understand, plan for, and realise the strategic business opportunities presented by information technology. In joining, youll help us to bridge the gaps between business units and the Information Technology departments and unite them around a shared vision that powers the business by aligning Information Technology Strategy to business strategy, goals and strategic priorities.A career in our Analytics Technology practice, within Data and Analytics Technology services, will provide you with the opportunity to help organizations uncover enterprise insights and drive business results using smarter data analytics. We focus on a collection of organizational technology capabilities, including business intelligence, data management, and data assurance that help our clients drive innovation, growth, and change within their organizations in order to keep up with the changing nature of customers and technology. Youll make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge.Our team helps clients navigate various analytics applications to get the most value out of their technology investment and foster confidence in their business intelligence. As part of our team, youll help our clientsimplement enterprise content and data management applications that improve operational effectiveness and provide impactful data analytics and insights.Primary duties and responsibilitiesAs the Lead Data Scientist your responsibilities will include:- Lead an agile DevSecOps software team to create innovative applications.- Lead a team in data-science and machine-learning efforts in- Support of PwC clients.- Responsible for management, oversight and day-to-day tasks for the Data Team- Oversee exploratory data analysis of sample data sets to advise the the Data Lab leads on the incorporation of AI into their labs and applications.- Analyze requirements, estimate production time, design solutions, code solutions, test solutions, and document work.- Assist in the definition of application architecture.- Mentor team of data scientists and provides algorithmic recommendations depending on the data set, acting as SME.- Ensure adherence to best practices, management processes, and technical constraints.- Design and conduct training on AI/ML, NPL techniques.- Assist in the drafting of business cases, project plans, test reports, risk assessments, and other project specific documentation.- Acts as client liaison in the development of application functional documentation, including technical specs document, technical data sheets, operational manuals, and training materials.- Must be functional in a coach/player role. REQUIREMENTS: To be successful in this role, your background will include the following:- Bachelors degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or similar engineering discipline.- Minimum 5+ years of relevant work experience in agile/scrum software development, data science settings with a focus on developing projects using AI/ML technologies, DevSecOps and cloud environments (e.g. Azure, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean).- Strong experience with NoSQL, Relational, Multimodal and Graph databases.- Strong experience with Machine Learning algorithms, techniques and tools.- Strong system architecture and design experience to include deploying production enterprise applications in cloud environments that use AI/ML.- Experience with Amazon Web Services deployments.- Experience with scripting and programming languages in Python, R and Java.- Experience in Design Thinking workshops and all related activities, designing solutions that balance user needs, commercial interests, and technological constraints, and including design strategy, service design, design research.- Experience planning and executing customer design projects through holistic understanding of problem areas, iterative solution design, executive stakeholder management, and integration of business and technical experts.- Experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research and synthesizing to provide insights, identify opportunities, and generate conceptual frameworks.- Experience with opensource development tools (GitHub, GitLab, etc.).- Experience coordinating activities to scope and schedule work and providing accurate work estimates for the deployment of new features.- Experience disseminating tasks and reviewing work outputs of lower level data scientists.- Ability to explain highly technical concepts to non-technical staff.- Experience with Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to present concepts, ideas, and results to team members and clients.Preferred REQUIREMENTS:- Masters degree in Data Science- Architectural design, sequence diagrams.- Data science and governance.- Wireframe software tools.- Software quality analysis.- Experience with Jira, Confluence, Visio, MS DevOps, and MS Project.

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