Senior Manager, Data Solutions Engineering – Tax & Accounting

<p><strong>About us</strong></p>

<p>Itero Group is a Women-Owned Small Business focused on simplifying complex transformations. We empower clients in the private and government sectors to become more optimized, digitally enabled, and data-driven organizations through our comprehensive business consulting and innovative delivery solutions.<br><br>Itero Group's dedicated team members are experienced thought leaders, tenacious workers, and creative thinkers. We hire people who are passionate about being catalysts for change - in our company, for our clients, throughout our career- and we empower people to express their ideas, create better practices, innovate better products, and become better professionals.<br><br>We have been named a Great Place to Work for six years, and offer a competitive salary and benefits package.&nbsp;</p><p>Itero Group is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Data Solutions Engineering - Tax &amp; Accounting to&nbsp;support&nbsp;enterprise&nbsp;data&nbsp;modernization&nbsp;initiatives&nbsp;for&nbsp;leading&nbsp;Financial&nbsp;Services&nbsp;clients.&nbsp;This&nbsp;individual&nbsp;will&nbsp;serve&nbsp;as&nbsp;a&nbsp;<strong>hands-on&nbsp;technical&nbsp;lead</strong>,&nbsp;designing&nbsp;and&nbsp;optimizing&nbsp;cloud-based&nbsp;data&nbsp;solutions&nbsp;while&nbsp;providing&nbsp;day-to-day&nbsp;leadership,&nbsp;mentoring&nbsp;engineers,&nbsp;and&nbsp;helping&nbsp;drive&nbsp;successful&nbsp;delivery&nbsp;across&nbsp;complex&nbsp;client&nbsp;engagements.</p>

<p>The ideal candidate combines deep hands- on experience with&nbsp;<strong>Snowflake,&nbsp;Databricks,&nbsp;SQL,&nbsp;Python,&nbsp;and&nbsp;enterprise&nbsp;data&nbsp;engineering</strong>&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;ability&nbsp;to&nbsp;<strong>lead&nbsp;and&nbsp;mentor&nbsp;technical&nbsp;teams,&nbsp;manage&nbsp;priorities&nbsp;and&nbsp;deliverables,&nbsp;and&nbsp;work&nbsp;directly&nbsp;with&nbsp;client&nbsp;stakeholders</strong>.&nbsp;Experience&nbsp;with&nbsp;accounting,&nbsp;tax,&nbsp;finance,&nbsp;or&nbsp;related&nbsp;enterprise&nbsp;platforms&nbsp;is&nbsp;highly&nbsp;desirable.</p>

<p>Key&nbsp;Responsibilities</p>

<ul>

<li>Lead&nbsp;the&nbsp;design,&nbsp;development,&nbsp;and&nbsp;implementation&nbsp;of&nbsp;client&nbsp;solutions&nbsp;using&nbsp;Snowflake&nbsp;and&nbsp;Databricks.</li>

<li>Serve&nbsp;as&nbsp;a&nbsp;hands-on&nbsp;technical&nbsp;lead,&nbsp;contributing&nbsp;directly&nbsp;to&nbsp;development&nbsp;while&nbsp;providing&nbsp;technical&nbsp;direction,&nbsp;guidance&nbsp;and&nbsp;mentoring&nbsp;to&nbsp;other&nbsp;team&nbsp;members&nbsp;including&nbsp;engineers.</li>

<li><strong>Lead,&nbsp;mentor,&nbsp;and&nbsp;coach&nbsp;data&nbsp;engineers</strong>,&nbsp;providing&nbsp;guidance&nbsp;on&nbsp;solution&nbsp;design,&nbsp;development&nbsp;standards,&nbsp;troubleshooting,&nbsp;and&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;best&nbsp;practices.</li>

<li>Help&nbsp;manage&nbsp;team&nbsp;priorities,&nbsp;technical&nbsp;assignments,&nbsp;deliverables,&nbsp;and&nbsp;dependencies&nbsp;to&nbsp;ensure&nbsp;work&nbsp;is&nbsp;completed&nbsp;efficiently&nbsp;and&nbsp;on&nbsp;schedule.</li>

<li>Review&nbsp;code&nbsp;and&nbsp;technical&nbsp;designs&nbsp;and&nbsp;provide&nbsp;constructive&nbsp;feedback&nbsp;to&nbsp;improve&nbsp;quality,&nbsp;scalability,&nbsp;and&nbsp;maintainability.</li>

<li>Build&nbsp;and&nbsp;optimize&nbsp;ELT/ETL&nbsp;processes&nbsp;to&nbsp;ingest&nbsp;and&nbsp;transform&nbsp;data&nbsp;from&nbsp;multiple&nbsp;complex&nbsp;enterprise&nbsp;systems.</li>

<li>Work&nbsp;with&nbsp;large&nbsp;volumes&nbsp;of&nbsp;complex&nbsp;structured,&nbsp;semi-structured,&nbsp;and&nbsp;log&nbsp;data&nbsp;to&nbsp;identify&nbsp;patterns,&nbsp;troubleshoot&nbsp;issues,&nbsp;determine&nbsp;root&nbsp;causes,&nbsp;and&nbsp;develop&nbsp;faster&nbsp;and&nbsp;more&nbsp;efficient&nbsp;solutions.</li>

<li>Proactively&nbsp;identify&nbsp;performance&nbsp;bottlenecks&nbsp;and&nbsp;inefficient&nbsp;processes&nbsp;and&nbsp;recommend&nbsp;opportunities&nbsp;for&nbsp;automation,&nbsp;optimization,&nbsp;and&nbsp;improved&nbsp;processing&nbsp;speed.</li>

<li>Develop&nbsp;dimensional&nbsp;data&nbsp;models,&nbsp;data&nbsp;marts,&nbsp;and&nbsp;curated&nbsp;analytical&nbsp;datasets.</li>

<li>Optimize&nbsp;Snowflake&nbsp;and&nbsp;Databricks&nbsp;solutions&nbsp;for&nbsp;performance,&nbsp;scalability,&nbsp;reliability,&nbsp;and&nbsp;cost.</li>

<li>Implement&nbsp;data&nbsp;quality,&nbsp;lineage,&nbsp;governance,&nbsp;and&nbsp;security&nbsp;best&nbsp;practices.</li>

<li>Develop&nbsp;solutions&nbsp;utilizing&nbsp;Snowpark,&nbsp;stored&nbsp;procedures,&nbsp;streams,&nbsp;tasks,&nbsp;and&nbsp;dynamic&nbsp;tables&nbsp;where&nbsp;appropriate.</li>

<li>Partner&nbsp;directly&nbsp;with&nbsp;business&nbsp;and&nbsp;technology&nbsp;stakeholders&nbsp;to&nbsp;understand&nbsp;complex&nbsp;reporting,&nbsp;accounting,&nbsp;tax,&nbsp;and&nbsp;analytical&nbsp;requirements&nbsp;and&nbsp;translate&nbsp;them&nbsp;into&nbsp;scalable&nbsp;technical&nbsp;solutions.</li>

<li>Build&nbsp;reusable&nbsp;data&nbsp;frameworks&nbsp;supporting&nbsp;Accounting,&nbsp;Tax,&nbsp;Finance,&nbsp;Risk,&nbsp;Compliance,&nbsp;Treasury,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Regulatory&nbsp;Reporting.</li>

<li>Develop&nbsp;automated&nbsp;orchestration&nbsp;using&nbsp;Airflow,&nbsp;Azure&nbsp;Data&nbsp;Factory,&nbsp;AWS&nbsp;Glue,&nbsp;or&nbsp;similar&nbsp;technologies.</li>

<li>Lead&nbsp;or&nbsp;actively&nbsp;participate&nbsp;in&nbsp;solution&nbsp;design&nbsp;sessions,&nbsp;sprint&nbsp;planning,&nbsp;backlog&nbsp;grooming,&nbsp;technical&nbsp;reviews,&nbsp;and&nbsp;other&nbsp;Agile&nbsp;ceremonies.</li>

<li>Communicate&nbsp;technical&nbsp;issues,&nbsp;risks,&nbsp;recommendations,&nbsp;and&nbsp;delivery&nbsp;status&nbsp;clearly&nbsp;to&nbsp;both&nbsp;technical&nbsp;and&nbsp;non-technical&nbsp;stakeholders.</li>

</ul>

<p><strong>Required&nbsp;Qualifications</strong></p>

<ul>

<li>8+&nbsp;years&nbsp;of&nbsp;Data&nbsp;Engineering&nbsp;experience,&nbsp;with&nbsp;demonstrated&nbsp;progression&nbsp;into&nbsp;a&nbsp;technical&nbsp;lead,&nbsp;team&nbsp;lead,&nbsp;or&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;management&nbsp;role.</li>

<li>4+&nbsp;years&nbsp;of&nbsp;hands-on&nbsp;Snowflake&nbsp;development&nbsp;experience.</li>

<li>Hands-on&nbsp;experience&nbsp;developing&nbsp;and&nbsp;supporting&nbsp;Databricks&nbsp;solutions.</li>

<li>Demonstrated&nbsp;experience&nbsp;leading&nbsp;and&nbsp;mentoring&nbsp;data&nbsp;engineers&nbsp;or&nbsp;technical&nbsp;delivery&nbsp;teams.</li>

<li>Experience&nbsp;managing&nbsp;technical&nbsp;workstreams,&nbsp;including&nbsp;priorities,&nbsp;assignments,&nbsp;dependencies,&nbsp;deliverables,&nbsp;and&nbsp;technical&nbsp;quality.</li>

<li>Ability&nbsp;to&nbsp;remain&nbsp;hands-on&nbsp;technically&nbsp;while&nbsp;providing&nbsp;leadership&nbsp;and&nbsp;oversight&nbsp;to&nbsp;a&nbsp;team.</li>

<li>Strong&nbsp;SQL&nbsp;expertise,&nbsp;including&nbsp;complex&nbsp;query&nbsp;development&nbsp;and&nbsp;optimization.</li>

<li>Strong&nbsp;Python&nbsp;development&nbsp;experience.</li>

<li>Experience&nbsp;building&nbsp;enterprise&nbsp;ELT/ETL&nbsp;pipelines.</li>

<li>Demonstrated&nbsp;experience&nbsp;analyzing&nbsp;and&nbsp;troubleshooting&nbsp;large,&nbsp;complex&nbsp;datasets&nbsp;and&nbsp;application/system&nbsp;logs.</li>

<li>Strong&nbsp;ability&nbsp;to&nbsp;identify&nbsp;root&nbsp;causes,&nbsp;performance&nbsp;bottlenecks,&nbsp;and&nbsp;opportunities&nbsp;to&nbsp;develop&nbsp;faster,&nbsp;more&nbsp;efficient&nbsp;data&nbsp;solutions.</li>

<li>Experience&nbsp;with&nbsp;cloud&nbsp;platforms&nbsp;including&nbsp;Azure&nbsp;and/or&nbsp;AWS;&nbsp;GCP&nbsp;experience&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;plus.</li>

<li>Experience&nbsp;with&nbsp;dbt,&nbsp;Airflow,&nbsp;Git,&nbsp;and&nbsp;CI/CD;&nbsp;Terraform&nbsp;experience&nbsp;preferred.</li>

<li>Experience&nbsp;working&nbsp;with&nbsp;structured&nbsp;and&nbsp;semi-structured&nbsp;data.</li>

<li>Strong&nbsp;knowledge&nbsp;of&nbsp;data&nbsp;modeling,&nbsp;including&nbsp;Star&nbsp;Schema,&nbsp;Snowflake&nbsp;Schema,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Kimball&nbsp;methodologies.</li>

<li>Experience&nbsp;with&nbsp;REST&nbsp;APIs&nbsp;and&nbsp;enterprise&nbsp;data&nbsp;integration.</li>

<li>Strong&nbsp;troubleshooting,&nbsp;performance&nbsp;tuning,&nbsp;and&nbsp;problem-solving&nbsp;skills.</li>

<li>Experience&nbsp;working&nbsp;with&nbsp;accounting,&nbsp;tax,&nbsp;finance,&nbsp;or&nbsp;related&nbsp;enterprise&nbsp;platforms&nbsp;and&nbsp;datasets&nbsp;strongly&nbsp;preferred.</li>

</ul>

<p>Financial&nbsp;Services&nbsp;Experience</p>

<p>Candidates&nbsp;should&nbsp;possess&nbsp;experience&nbsp;supporting&nbsp;one&nbsp;or&nbsp;more&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;following:</p>

<ul>

<li>Banking</li>

<li>Commercial&nbsp;or&nbsp;Investment&nbsp;Banking</li>

<li>Capital&nbsp;Markets</li>

<li>Asset&nbsp;or&nbsp;Wealth&nbsp;Management</li>

<li>Insurance</li>

<li>FinTech</li>

</ul>

<p>Experience&nbsp;supporting&nbsp;<strong>Accounting,&nbsp;Tax,&nbsp;Finance,&nbsp;Treasury,&nbsp;Risk,&nbsp;or&nbsp;Regulatory&nbsp;Reporting&nbsp;platforms&nbsp;and&nbsp;processes</strong>within&nbsp;complex&nbsp;enterprise&nbsp;environments&nbsp;is&nbsp;highly&nbsp;desirable.</p>

<p>Leadership&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Management&nbsp;Experience</p>

<ul>

<li>Demonstrated&nbsp;experience&nbsp;leading,&nbsp;mentoring,&nbsp;and&nbsp;developing&nbsp;technical&nbsp;team&nbsp;members.</li>

<li>Ability&nbsp;to&nbsp;provide&nbsp;technical&nbsp;direction&nbsp;while&nbsp;empowering&nbsp;engineers&nbsp;to&nbsp;independently&nbsp;solve&nbsp;problems.</li>

<li>Experience&nbsp;managing&nbsp;multiple&nbsp;priorities&nbsp;and&nbsp;coordinating&nbsp;work&nbsp;across&nbsp;technical&nbsp;teams.</li>

<li>Ability&nbsp;to&nbsp;identify&nbsp;skills&nbsp;gaps,&nbsp;provide&nbsp;coaching,&nbsp;and&nbsp;raise&nbsp;the&nbsp;overall&nbsp;technical&nbsp;capabilities&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;team.</li>

<li>Experience&nbsp;reviewing&nbsp;technical&nbsp;designs&nbsp;and&nbsp;code&nbsp;and&nbsp;establishing&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;standards&nbsp;and&nbsp;best&nbsp;practices.</li>

<li>Ability&nbsp;to&nbsp;manage&nbsp;delivery&nbsp;expectations,&nbsp;escalate&nbsp;risks&nbsp;appropriately,&nbsp;and&nbsp;help&nbsp;keep&nbsp;projects&nbsp;on&nbsp;schedule.</li>

<li>Comfortable&nbsp;operating&nbsp;as&nbsp;both&nbsp;a&nbsp;technical&nbsp;leader&nbsp;and&nbsp;hands-on&nbsp;engineer.</li>

</ul>

<p>Consulting&nbsp;Experience</p>

<ul>

<li>Experience&nbsp;working&nbsp;within&nbsp;a&nbsp;Big&nbsp;Four&nbsp;or&nbsp;similar&nbsp;consulting&nbsp;environment&nbsp;strongly&nbsp;preferred.</li>

<li>Demonstrated&nbsp;ability&nbsp;to&nbsp;lead&nbsp;technical&nbsp;workstreams&nbsp;within&nbsp;complex&nbsp;client&nbsp;engagements.</li>

<li>Experience&nbsp;working&nbsp;directly&nbsp;with&nbsp;client&nbsp;stakeholders&nbsp;and&nbsp;senior&nbsp;leadership.</li>

<li>Ability&nbsp;to&nbsp;gather&nbsp;requirements&nbsp;from&nbsp;business&nbsp;stakeholders,&nbsp;including&nbsp;accounting,&nbsp;tax,&nbsp;finance,&nbsp;and&nbsp;technology&nbsp;teams.</li>

<li>Experience&nbsp;leading&nbsp;client&nbsp;workshops&nbsp;and&nbsp;solution&nbsp;design&nbsp;sessions.</li>

<li>Ability&nbsp;to&nbsp;translate&nbsp;complex&nbsp;business&nbsp;and&nbsp;data&nbsp;challenges&nbsp;into&nbsp;practical,&nbsp;scalable&nbsp;technology&nbsp;solutions.</li>

<li>Excellent&nbsp;verbal&nbsp;and&nbsp;written&nbsp;com</li></ul>