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. With a strong focus on cloud technology, Accenture has completed 34,000 cloud projects and has consolidated its cloud teams into a single business practice called Accenture Cloud First. As part of the Data & AI group, you will lead technological innovation for clients through the delivery of world-class solutions. The role offers opportunities to work on exciting client initiatives in a collaborative environment, covering various roles such as Data Scientist, Data Engineer, or Chief Data Officer, and addressing aspects of 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.
- Advise client teams on best practices for CP4D 4.8 and later based on their needs and requirements.
- Review CP4D 4.8 configuration and architecture in Dev, Test, and Production environments and advise clients accordingly.
- Collaborate with client architects to advise 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.
