About the position
Accenture is a global professional services company and a leading partner to the world's major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google. As part of our Data & AI group, you will lead technological innovation for our clients through robust delivery of world-class solutions. The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are unlimited in the ever-changing technology landscape. You will be part of a highly collaborative and growing network of technology and data experts, who are taking on today's biggest, most complex business challenges using the latest data and analytics technologies. You will have an opportunity to work in roles such as Data Scientist, Data Engineer, or Chief Data Officer covering all aspects of Data including Data Management, Data Governance, Data Intelligence, Knowledge Graphs, and IoT.
Responsibilities
- Function as the designated subject matter expert (SME) and Lead analytics developer responsible for providing data warehouse and analytic solutions.
- Work with the client team to advise them on best practices for CP4D 4.8 and later (DB2 Warehouse Gen 3, CP4D DataStage, and Watson Query) based on their needs and requirements.
- Review CP4D 4.8 configuration, and architecture in Dev, Test, and Production environments and advise client accordingly.
- Collaborate with the client team's architects to advise them on hardware decisions, platform configuration, documentation of best practices, and troubleshooting initiatives.
- Drive towards key architectural decisions and engage with multiple teams to contribute to key decisions.
- Provide solutions to problems that apply across multiple teams.
- Advise the client architecture team on upcoming patches/version changes for CP4D.
- Act as an effective liaison between client and Accenture teams.
- Open, manage and track trouble tickets with IBM technical support and product team when required.
Requirements
- Minimum 3 Years experience in design, development and deployment with CP4D solutions, including DataStage.
- Minimum 5 years' experience working on analytics platforms (Cognos, DB2 Warehouse).
- Minimum 7 years' experience working in data warehousing environments.
- Minimum 7 years' experience in team leadership and project management.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience).
- Strong troubleshooting skills.
- Effective written and verbal communication.
- Strong presentation skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Certifications in IBM Cognos and/or Cloud Pack for Data (CP4D) are highly desirable.
- Certifications in APIs/data integration or cloud technologies is optional.
- IBM Watson Analytics proficiency, and IBM Cognos Analytics proficiency at the master level will be advantageous.
- OpenShift proficiency at the master level will be advantageous.
- AWS Gov Cloud preferred proficiency at the master level will be advantageous.
