City : Toronto

Category : Advisory

Industry : Finance

Employer : KPMG

At KPMG, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause: turning insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world.

The opportunity:

Video: Digital Opportunities  

Why KPMG Digital?

Transform. Innovate. Collaborate — KPMG Canada’s Center of Excellence for Data & Analytics + Intelligent Automation — applies data science to solve real-word business problems and operationalize AI. Join a diverse team which is always curious and learning, thinking independently and working collaboratively, has a passion to solve difficult problems and has fun doing it.

KPMG Digital Toronto has an exciting opportunity for a Data Engineer, Consultant to join our team! This role will be a rewarding experience for you if you:

• Thrive on challenges and work best in a fast-paced environment where each day is different
• Work well in a project team environment and have strong collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Have a permanent “figure it out” mindset

• Work closely with clients to understand key business issues.
• Gather and analyze requirements to develop impactful recommendations and solutions.
• Work in teams and individually to performance ETL (extract, transform and load) of data from a variety of databases, SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Neo4j, etc.
• Strong experience with large scale and/or distributed processing methodologies such as Storm, Spark or others.
• Review data quality and definitions and perform data cleansing and data management tasks.
• Work with the engagement team to translate business and analytics requirements into a data strategy for the engagement including ETL, data model and staging data for analysis
• Architect the data platform for scalability, repeatability and performance.
• Architect data pipelines to support streaming data, batch data, etc.
• Develop standards for data processes and automate routine tasks.
• Run queries for descriptive analytics and provide formatted result sets.
• Proactively contribute to the creation of presentation materials relating to data activities for stakeholder discussions.
• Support application testing and production implementation as required.
• Bridge the gap between technical platform needs and business issues.
• Enable overall solution and full-scope architecture design and build.
• Design software architecture following best practices after understanding customer enterprise environment requirements.

• University degree in computer engineering, mathematics, data science or related disciplines
• 2+ years of professional experience in a related field
• Strong experience working in teams to perform ETL (extract, transform and load) of data from a variety of databases from SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Neo4j, etc.
• Independent ability to review the data quality and data definitions, and perform data cleansing and data management tasks
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team to tack unstructured data processing problems across a diverse range of industries
• Experience in at least one major cloud service: AWS, MS Azure and GCP, microservices and serverless computing

Keys to your success:

KPMG individuals Deliver Impact | Seek Growth | Inspire Trust and understand that a diverse workforce enables us to deepen relationships and strengthen our business.

Providing you with the support you need to be at your best

For more information about KPMG in Canada’s Benefits and well-being, click here.

Integrity, we do what is right | Excellence, we never stop learning and improving | Courage, we think and act boldly | Together, we respect each other and draw strength from our differences | For Better, we do what matters

KPMG in Canada is a proud equal opportunities employer and we are committed to creating a respectful, inclusive and barrier-free workplace that allows all of our people to reach their full potential. A diverse workforce is key to our success and we believe in bringing your whole self to work. We welcome all qualified candidates to apply and hope you will choose KPMG in Canada as your employer of choice. For more information about Inclusion, Diversity & Equity in Recruitment, please click here.

For general recruitment-related inquiries, please contact the HR Delivery Centre at cafmcdnhrsthotline@kpmg.ca.

If you have a question about accessible employment at KPMG, or to begin a confidential conversation about your individual accessibility or accommodation needs through the recruitment process, we encourage you to contact us at cafmcdnhrsthotline@kpmg.ca or phone: 416-777-8002 or toll free 1-888-466-4778.