Senior Data Engineer

Ranked among the largest accounting and consulting firms in the country and consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work, Cherry Bekaert delivers innovative advisory, assurance and tax services to our clients. We are proud to foster a collaborative environment focused on enabling your career growth and continuous professional development. Our team is looking for a Senior Data Engineer. The Senior Data Engineer will have the opportunity to work remotely from within the United States.

Cherry Bekaert is one of the country’s top public accounting firms and based on our growth and is looking for a Data Engineer on our Application and Analytics team. This position can be based either in Richmond, VA or Raleigh, NC, Tampa, FL with an ability to work remotely. This is an exciting opportunity to help drive the plan, model, build, and management of our data solutions and data quality initiatives.

If you enjoy executing a daily checklist of tasks as part of a defined routine – this likely isn’t the role for you. But, if you prefer variety in your work and the challenge of establishing something new, keep reading. Do you want to collaborate directly with our Executive team and business leaders in Operations, HR, Finance, and Marketing? The best decisions are made with the best information. You will be asked to work independently on data architecture and integration, while collaborating with your peers and business partners to design best in class data platforms. If you’re ready to spearhead the delivery of data that leads to effective and visually appealing reports and dashboards to empower decision making - we’re ready to hear from you.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will: 

• Data Architecture – Support our data architecture, data engineering, DBA and data integration specialists to ensure the enterprise data lakehouse is built to best support reporting and analytics requirements, both now and for future capabilities. Includes data modeling to support the architecture and designs.
•  Responsible for defining data to facilitate easier integration, effective retrieval of data for both internal applications and external communication.
•  Data modeling – working closely with data architects and data engineers to build and maintain our enterprise data lake and employ data models to be consumed for analytics.
•  Master data and transaction data management - Design and Maintenance
• Planning & Solution Delivery – Work with the department manager and IT project management to define the scope and schedule for delivering data integration solutions. Proactively monitor delivery risks and issues.  Strive to deliver work packages to agreed upon schedule and budget. Contribute to the overall application development team plan.
•  Data Transformations/Transfer (ETL), Enterprise applications interfaces and data Integration, Cloud Integrations. csv file delivery, Data delivery, and System data integration
•  Data and Integration Architecture – Bring your expertise to help us create best in class solutions using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and APIs to integrate data from a variety of hosted and on-premises enterprise solutions supporting Operations, HR, Finance, Marketing, etc. into our internal environment for data warehousing, reporting, and analytics. 
• Database implementation and administration, SQL Server Administration/ Installation, Database backups and restores
• Requirements Gathering – Work directly with our business partners to identify, understand, and translate key metrics into high quality analytics solutions designed to enhance and improve critical business processes.
• Provide operational support to numerous areas of the firm in assisting with their needs in data integration and necessary metrics to support their reporting needs.
• Standards & guidelines, policies and procedures, iterative solutioning supporting business analytics teams and thorough documentation.\
• Governance – Work with subject matter experts to build solutions developing and using approved calculations and data elements, emphasizing proper data governance.  
• Risk & Compliance – Ensure that all BI solutions are designed and built to comply with, and at all times, adhere to Cherry Bekaert security, data privacy and other risk & compliance policies, procedures and controls.

What you bring to the table: 

• 3+ years working with enterprise-wide data and analytics solutions
• Experience with SQL and Python preferred
• Databricks, Azure platform preferred
• Alteryx experience a plus
• Experience with ETL/Development tools (Azure Data Factory preferred) necessary
• Experience working with APIs for Cloud and SaaS solutions

What you can expect from us:

• Our shared values that foster inclusion and belonging including uncompromising integrity, collaboration, trust, and mutual respect
• The opportunity to innovate and do work that motivates and engages you
• A collaborative environment focused on enabling you to further your career growth and continuous professional development
• Competitive compensation and a total rewards package that focuses on all aspects of your wellbeing
• Flexibility to do impactful work and the time to enjoy your life outside of work
• Opportunities to connect and learn from professionals from different backgrounds and with different cultures

Cherry Bekaert cares about our people. We offer competitive compensation packages based on performance that recognize the value our people bring to our clients and our Firm. The salary range for this position is included below. Individual salaries within this range are determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, education, knowledge, skills, and geographic location. In addition, we offer a comprehensive, high-quality benefits program which includes annual bonus, medical, dental, and vision care; disability and life insurance; generous Paid Time Off; retirement plans; Paid Care Leave; and other programs that are dedicated to enhancing your personal and work life and providing you and your family with a measure of financial protection

Pay Range:

$86,350 to $140,000

About Cherry Bekaert

Cherry Bekaert, ranked among the largest assurance, tax and advisory firms in the U.S., serves clients across industries in all 50 U.S. states and internationally. For more details, visit https://www.cbh.com/disclosure/

Cherry Bekaert provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. https://careers.cbh.com/legal-disclosures/ contains further information regarding the firm's compliance with federal, state and local recruitment and hiring laws.

This role is expected to accept applications for at least five calendar days and may continue to be posted until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.  

Candidates must demonstrate eligibility to work in the United States. Cherry Bekaert will not provide work sponsorship for this position.

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