EY GDS – Data and Analytics (D&A) – Delivery Program Senior Manager

EY GDS – Data and Analytics (D&A) – Delivery Program Manager

As part of our EY-GDS D&A (Data and Analytics) team, we help our clients solve complex business challenges with the help of data and technology. We dive deep into data to extract the greatest value and discover opportunities in key business and functions like Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Retail, Manufacturing and Auto, Supply Chain, and Finance.

The opportunity

We’re looking for Delivery Program Manager with strong technology and data understanding having proven delivery capability in delivery. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a leading firm as well as a part of a growing Data and Analytics team.

Your key responsibilities

• Manage a delivery team to ensure timely and accurate customer deliveries.
• Oversee daily activities of delivery team and provide direction and guidance as needed. Experience of managing large teams.
• Develop standardized practices for delivering new products and capabilities using Big Data technologies, including data acquisition, transformation, and analysis.
• Define and develop client specific best practices around data management within a Hadoop environment or cloud environment
• Recommend design alternatives for data ingestion, processing and provisioning layers
• Design and develop data ingestion programs to process large data sets in Batch mode using HIVE, Pig and Sqoop, Spark
• Interact with senior client technology leaders, understand their business goals, create, architect, propose, develop and deliver technology solutions
• Perform resource allocations and workload assignments according to delivery requirements.
• Ensure that team maintains high level of competence and operational excellence.
• Evaluate the performance of team members and determine training needs.
• Serve as primary contact for customer inquiries and concerns.
• Analyse customer orders, set delivery priorities and make schedule adjustments to meet timely delivery goals.
• Perform customer negotiations for delivery rates.
• Develop process improvements to achieve cost effectiveness and time saving.
• Make critical business decisions to meet customer expectations.
• Develop scope and budget for delivery projects
• Develop standardized practices for delivering new products and capabilities
• Report delivery status to customers and develop required delivery documentations.

Skills and attributes for success

• 12+ years of experience with strong understanding & familiarity with project management techniques
• Established experience with project management programs, SCRUM, and different variants of AGILE techniques, along with familiarity with code management and Continuous Integration/Delivery Implementation (CI/DI).
• Familiar with tools like JIRA, Trello, Azure Devops etc.
• Familiarity with all Big Data and Cloud fundamentals.
• Familiarity with cloud services like AWS, and/or Microsoft Azure
• Strong understanding of underlying Hadoop Architectural concepts and distributed computing paradigms
• Experience in the development of Hadoop APIs and MapReduce jobs for large scale data processing
• Hands on experience with major components like Hive, PIG, Spark, MapReduce
• Experience working with NoSQL in at least one of the data stores - HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB
• Experienced in Hadoop clustering and Auto scaling.
• Good knowledge in apache Kafka & Apache Flume
• Knowledge of Spark and Kafka integration with multiple Spark jobs to consume messages from multiple Kafka partitions
• Knowledge of Apache Oozie based workflow
• Knowledge in Big data architecture patterns [Lambda, Kappa]
• Experience in performance bench marking enterprise applications
• Experience in Data security [on the move, at rest]
• Experience with BI, and data analytics databases