Job description

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all. **Technology Consulting** **Title: Manager II, Data Engineering** EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Technology is at the heart of what we do and deliver at EY. Technology solutions are integrated in the client services we deliver and are key to our innovation as an organization. Fueled by strategic investment in technology and innovation, Client Technology seeks to drive growth opportunities and solve complex business problems for our clients through building a robust platform for business and powerful product engine that are vital to innovation at scale. As part of Client Technology, you’ll work with technologists and business experts, blending EY’s deep industry knowledge and innovative ideas with our platforms, capabilities, and technical expertise. As a catalyst for change and growth, you’ll be at the forefront of integrating emerging technologies from AI to Data Analytics into every corner of what we do at EY. That means more growth for you, exciting learning opportunities, career choices, and the chance to make a real impact. **EY Technology:** Technology has always been at the heart of what we do and deliver at EY. We need technology to keep an organization the size of ours working efficiently. We have 250,000 people in more than 140 countries, all of whom rely on secure technology to be able to do their job every single day. Everything from the laptops we use, to the ability to work remotely on our mobile devices and connecting our people and our clients, to enabling hundreds of internal tools and external solutions delivered to our clients. Technology solutions are integrated in the client services we deliver and is key to us being more innovative as an organization. **EY Technology** supports our technology needs through three business units: **Client Technology (CT)** \- focuses on developing new technology services for our clients. It enables EY to identify new technology\-based opportunities faster and pursue those opportunities more rapidly. **Enterprise Workplace Technology (EWT)** – EWT supports our Core Business Services functions and will deliver fit\-for\-purpose technology infrastructure at the cheapest possible cost for quality services. EWT will also support our internal technology needs by focusing on a better user experience. **Information Security (Info Sec)** \- Info Sec prevents, detects, responds, and mitigates cyber\-risk, protecting EY and client data, and our information management systems. **The opportunity** The Manager, Data Engineering is responsible for leading a team of data engineers to design, develop, and optimize scalable data pipelines and infrastructure. This role focuses on enabling high\-performance data workflows, ensuring seamless data integration and driving automation to enhance data accessibility. **Your key responsibilities** * Hire, mentor and manage a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous learning in data engineering best practices. * Design, develop and maintain scalable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines to efficiently process and integrate structured and unstructured data from multiple sources. * Build and maintain scalable, fault\-tolerant data architectures, ensuring efficient data storage, retrieval and processing across cloud and on\-premises environments. * Oversee the design, implementation and performance tuning of relational and NoSQL databases, ensuring data consistency, security and accessibility. * Automate data ingestion, transformation and validation processes to enhance data pipeline efficiency and reduce manual intervention. * Develop cloud\-based data solutions using platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, leveraging technologies such as Spark, Hadoop and Kafka for large\-scale data processing. * Work closely with data scientists, analysts and business intelligence teams to understand data requirements and develop scalable solutions for analytics and reporting. * Proactively monitor data pipelines and systems for performance issues, troubleshoot failures and implement preventive measures for system reliability. * Partner with business and IT leaders to align data engineering initiatives with company goals, ensuring seamless integration of data\-driven solutions across departments. **Skills and attributes for success** * A team player with strong analytical, communication and interpersonal skills * Constantly updating yourself about new technologies in the market * A winning personality and the ability to become a trusted advisor to the stakeholders **To qualify for the role, you must have** * Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership role managing data engineering teams and large\-scale data infrastructure. * Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in Computer Science, IT, or a related field or Diploma in Data Science/Data Engineering. * Strong expertise in ETL development, data warehousing and real\-time data processing frameworks. * Hands\-on experience with SQL, Python, Spark, Kafka and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). * Proficiency in database technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, Big Query) and distributed computing frameworks. * Hands\-on experience with Databricks including Spark and Delta Lake * Strong Python, PySpark and SQL skills beyond standard data engineering proficiency * Experience building and maintaining scalable ETL and ELT pipelines specifically in AWS * Understanding of Medallion Architecture and data validation best practices * Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Airflow and Databricks Workflows * Experience with Kimball\-style dimensional modelling including star schemas * Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure\-as\-code tools such as Terraform * Exposure to Delta Live Tables and Unity Catalog for data governance and pipeline automation * Knowledge of DataOps practices and data quality frameworks **Ideally, you’ll also have** * Strong verbal and written communication, facilitation, relationship\-building, presentation and negotiation skills. * Be highly flexible, adaptable, and creative. * Comfortable interacting with senior executives (within the firm and at the client) **What we look for** * Strong teamwork, work ethic, product mindset, client centricity and a relentless commitment to EY values. **What working at EY offers** We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well\-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer: * Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around * Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career * The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you **EY \| Building a better working world** EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long\-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.