Senior Data Analyst

Job description:
Senior Data Scientist & Analyst
The Senior Data Scientist & Analyst role is very important to the KPMG Lighthouse Center of Excellence at KPMG Sweden, and plays always a central role in every project team in small as well as large projects and programs.

The Senior Data Scientist & Analyst has deep knowledge in digitalization, advanced analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence as well as in cloud solution architecture and has the skills to drive high priority customer’s initiatives on the Microsoft Azure Platform and other cloud platforms, in collaboration with different specialist teams within Audit, Tax and Advisory/Management consulting, as well as with the sales and customer executives.

This is a customer – external as well as internal customers/clients - facing role that manage digital innovative business development projects for new services and products, owning the overall technical relationship between the customers/clients’ needs and the specific digital data platform and solutions based on advanced analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and digital transformation.

Responsibilities

The role will have the responsibility for the digital architecture, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence solutions in customer engagements including but not limited to: architectural design for advanced analytics solutions, digital development(R, Python, Graph database etc), data mining, mathematical and statistical analytics and presales engagements with pilot solutions and/or PoC:s.

The role is customer-facing – internal as well as external - and drive deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, enterprise architects, IT management and developers in different kinds of digital transformation engagements, and will manage and develop advanced analytics and artificial intelligence solutions.

Key Responsibilities Include
Understand customers’ overall data estate, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions using advanced analytics and artificial intelligence,
Apply technical knowledge to architect solutions that meet business and IT needs, create AA/AI roadmaps, and ensure long term technical viability of new deployments, infusing key analytics and AI technologies where appropriate (e.g. Azure ML, ML Server, BOT framework, Cognitive Services, Azure Databricks, etc.),
Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers and drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates,
Maintain and advance deep technical skills and knowledge, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights, and share within the technical community,
Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices with KPMG specialists in Audit, Tax and Advisory, and connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers,
Be an Cloud Platform evangelist with customers, partners and both internal and external communities,
Assess the Customers' knowledge of Azure and other cloud platforms and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners.

Qualifications
Experiences Required: Education, Key Experiences, Knowledge and Skills:
Technical Degree: minimum of Bachelors in Computer Science or adjacent fields,
Deep understanding of machine learning & AI, data platform technologies, BI/Datawarehouse technologies, with the technical aptitude and experience to learn new technologies and understand relevant digital and advanced analytical trends.
Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth in two or more of the following areas: Digital Strategy and Transformation, Business Intelligence, Big Data, Data Governance, Data Science, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence,
5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects) required,
Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives and growing data services in large or highly strategic accounts,
Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills,
Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management and developers),

· Have good knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Python, R, Java, C #, .NET, Git, Spark, SAS, MATLAB Scala, SQL, Azure, Neo4j, NoSQL, MapReduce and Hadoop.
· Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, SalesForce, VMware, Google, IBM, Avanade, T-Systems, Wipro, CSC, HP, Infosys, ServiceNow, Dell, TCS,
· Travel required: 20-30%,
· Fluent English and Swedish.

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