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BDO USA, LLP

Senior Data Visualization Specialist

BDO USA, LLP, Oak Brook, Illinois, United States, 60523

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Job Summary This position will work with cutting edge technology, deliver high quality solutions across various industries, and collaborate with teams on engagements that range in size and scope. This position will receive continuous career development opportunities. This role will perform hands-on delivery management of data analytics projects, contribute to the development and unit testing of solutions, and design architecture and develop components where needed. This position owns client consulting relationships across multiple clients and technologies.

Job Duties

Designs and implements actionable data visualization solutions, semantic layers and models, and visualization of streaming data for end-to-end data analytics solutions on cloud analytics platforms such as Azure and AWS

Explores large data sets and relational databases, performs analyses, and identifies unique storytelling opportunities

Creates effective and compelling presentations to describe the business value of solutions

Builds visualizations that simplify complex information to enable insights and better business decisions

Listens to client needs to align solutions with business requirements, data availability, and prioritization

Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with broad impact

Implements programs and best practices to ensure data literacy and maturity within organizations

Creates written functional, architectural, and technical designs

Creates prototypes to validate functional requirements before scalable implementation

Participates in project status and stand-up meetings, and assists with providing aggregated project status for project and program managers

Assists with SLA compliance and performs performance tuning and optimization of solutions

Takes branding standards into account and makes intentional design choices for data assets

Implements modern data visualization methodologies and maintains up-to-date knowledge of data visualization strategies

Imports, transforms, and analyzes large data sets from disparate data sources

Creates relationships between data and develops data models

Creates complex DAX measures to support data analysis needs of visualizations

Maps data models to source systems and tracks data lineage

Creates data model documentation explaining algorithms, parameters, models, and relationships

Collaborates with data engineers in ingesting and warehousing data to support data models

Guides clients in estimating and sizing their visualization solution licensing based on user base and performance needs

Manages workspaces, user permissions, deploys apps, and maintains the security and health of visualization tools and platforms

Designs and supports complex Row Level Security (RLS) within visualization solutions

Assists project managers with work breakdown structure creation, project estimation, resource staffing, and workload planning

Assists clients with licensing, security, and cost estimation of solutions

Performs code reviews to ensure adherence to standards

Works directly with clients and team members to establish secure data visualization platforms and infrastructure

Contributes to successful deployments and integration of DevOps tools

Maintains a broad understanding of data visualization and data analytics strategies, cloud platforms, methodologies, and tools

Builds client relationships during project execution, acting as a trusted advisor

Participates in support activities for existing software solutions

Works with the Data & AI team to perform pre-sales engineering and scoping to assist with closing new opportunities

Other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities

Supervises the day-to-day workload of Associates on assigned engagements to ensure that timelines and deliverables are met, and reviews work product

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Education:

High School Diploma or GED equivalent, required

Bachelor's degree preferred; focus in Information Systems, Data Science or Computer Science preferred

Experience:

Five (5) or more years of experience within Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, or Application Development, required

One (1) or more years of experience technically leading development projects, preferred

One (1) or more years of consulting experience or implementation of cloud-based data visualization solutions, preferred

Software:

Strong SQL skills including DDL, DML, views, functions, stored procedures, or performance tuning, required

Experience with visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, Looker, required

Experience with Data Modeling, Semantic Model Definition or Star Schema Construction, required

Hands-on delivery experience of data visualization solutions within Azure or AWS, preferred

Experience with Git and DevOps deployment technologies, preferred

Experience with one or more of the following, preferred:

Wireframe mockup tools

Process documentation tools such as Visio

AI Algorithms/Machine Learning

Automation tools such as UiPath, Alteryx, etc.

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Project management and client relationship management skills

Ability to work with a high degree of professionalism and autonomy

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Solid organizational skills, especially the ability to meet project deadlines with a focus on details

Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a group environment

Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment, and handle multiple projects simultaneously

Ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the Firm

Ability to interact with a team of professionals and delegate work as needed

Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and client personnel

Able to encourage a team environment on engagements and contribute to the professional development of assigned personnel

Professional presence

Keywords:

Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Decision Intelligence, BI, Data Architect, Synapse, Machine Learning, Microsoft, SQL Server, Tableau, .Net, C#, Qlik, Power BI, Data Modeling, Azure, DAX, API, RLS, Row Level Security, Application Programming Interface, Data Analysis Expression

Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

Illinois Range: $90,000 - $115,000

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