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IT Lead Data Engineer

BDO

$138,000 - $170,000
Oct 10, 2025
Grand Rapids, MI, US
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The Firm's valuable data assets need to be extracted, transformed, and stored to achieve better operational efficiencies and provide better services to its clients through modern data movement pipelines. The Firm's data needs to remain accurate, timely, and relevant to the Firm's goals, requiring strategies, policies, and governance models.

Requirements

  • Eight (8) or more years working as a data engineer, data analyst or similar analyst/engineer roles, required
  • Eight (8) or more years working with PowerBI, Tableau or similar data visualization products, required
  • Five (5) or more years working within commercial cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or GCP, required
  • Three (3) or more years using version control tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub), required
  • Demonstrable proficiency in developing and understanding custom and ad-hoc SQL queries, required
  • Experience using a modern scripting language such as Python, Scala, R, or Java, preferred
  • Strong proficiency in the use of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), or similar, required

Responsibilities

  • Works with stakeholders and data architects to define and design data solutions to support the Firm’s data initiatives
  • Understands and locates where data assets exist within the Firm’s systems and design solutions integrating disparate data sources to solve problems and provide business value
  • Prepares mock-up solution designs, visualizations and reports to effectively demonstrate proposed solutions and deliverables
  • Works with data scientists and developers to use emerging and advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify and extrapolate hidden patterns and trends, increasing the value of the Firm’s data
  • Serves as a technical expert and lead to other team members, reviewing proposed solution designs, conducting code reviews, and troubleshooting advanced technical issues
  • Identifies and executes continuous improvement efforts to ensure the Firm’s data remains accurate and timely
  • Collaborates with BDO Global and other BDO member firms to ensure standards between organizations are followed in support of reusable models and rapid deployment of shared technology

Other

  • This role is the team leader in helping extract, transform, and store the Firm’s valuable data assets
  • This role, in collaboration with other data engineers, data architects, and other IT teams, will operationalize and document data extraction and ingestion platforms.
  • This role is the team’s leader for developing strategies, policies, and governance models to ensure the Firm’s data remains accurate, timely and relevant to the Firm’s goals.
  • This role will provide guidance and mentorship to junior data engineers, as well as helping delegate work items and tickets across the Data Engineering team.
  • Ability to work after hours and weekends as needed