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 p