Blockchain Data Analytics: Tech Lead – Assistant Director 1 Full Time

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.

Disruption is changing the way the world works. It’s happening quickly. And it’s creating opportunity, if you can keep up and even get ahead of it. That’s why we’ve established a dedicated Global Innovation team focused on understanding external forces changing our world and how to do things differently in 6 months, 3 years, 10 years and beyond.

In this shifting landscape, we are challenging ourselves to embrace disruption and think differently for our clients. How? By combining the experience of our global Tax, Accounting, Advisory and Transactions professionals (the “suits”) with start-up thinking (the “jeans”). This “suits+jeans” approach applies an entirely new mindset for today’s challenges.

Our global network of EY teams and innovation centers are creating powerful ideas for organizations and ourselves, especially around opportunities coming from artificial intelligence, blockchain, robotics and data and analytics.

The opportunity

You will be a part of the Global Innovation Blockchain team, an innovative and collaborative group of technical developers, cryptographers, mathematicians and business strategists who are dedicated to the application of blockchain technology and the development of world-class products. At EY, you will help our clients, some of the most influential companies, explore emergent applications and transform the way the world does business.

Your key responsibilities

• Technical leadership of data focused products and analytics solutions
• Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into something valuable and useful for product end-users
• Define and implement innovative solutions for product direction and user experience
• Work closely with product owners to develop user experience requirements for products
• Oversee the user experience from concept to deployment (and beyond) of blockchain solutions
• Propose user interactions and visual design for a product (or suite of products) and effectively communicate design concepts (leveraging sketches, story boards, wireframes, mock-ups, etc.)
• Identifies and defines user / customer requirements and focuses on developing user interface (UI) in mobile, web, tablets etc., using standard tools and frameworks in an agile fashion.
• Responsible for the effective management and delivery of one or more processes, solutions and/or projects, ensuring a focus on quality and effective risk management.
• Responsible for continuous process improvement, the identification of innovative solutions through research and analysis, insight and experience of best practices
• May manage professional employees or supervise others to deliver complex technical initiatives, with accountability for performance and results
• Applies depth of expertise to guide others and interprets internal / external issues to recommend quality solutions.
• Looking for hands-on technical expertise here – not a “relationship person” or a “senior architect” but someone who can learn how to stand-up and deploy managed services
• Think through all the issues related to things like GDPR, disaster recovery, etc.
• Develop and mentor development teams
• Keep up to date on emerging capabilities in this fast-growing area and identify where and how new capabilities can be applied.
• Be a technical subject matter resources; able to answer questions and lead discussions across our portfolio.
• Work as solution architect across multiple products and projects
• Focuses on developing software components and services which interact with the upstream and downstream components. Codes, programs and creates specifications to deliver development services that support business requirements.

Skills and attributes for success

• Agile Delivery and Development
• Application Delivery Process
• Application Development Tools
• Applications Integration
• Quality Assurance and Testing
• Software Development
• System Development Lifecycle
• System and Technology Integration
• Technology Business Requirements Definition, Analysis and Mapping
• Test Driven Development

To qualify for the role you must have and showcase experience / knowledge 

• Proven Big Data Experience as Data Engineer
• Proven experience on end-to-end data engineering solutions
• Technical leadership experience (preferably in a global team)
• Relational and No-SQL database experience
• Hands-on ETL experience
• Hands-on Python experience
• Solid experience on data mapping and data integration
• Data warehouse and data modelling knowledge
• Advanced knowledge on data strategy and data governancePrevious development experience in Agile teams

Nice to have

• ReactJS, NodeJS
• Streaming data (preferably Kafka)
• Azure Databricks knowledge
• Microservices Design experience
• Project experience on public blockchain data is a huge plus
• Defi and/or audit project experience is another plus
• Technical knowledge of security best practices across a variety of cloud and on-prem use cases and architectures
• Experience on releasing cloud optimized products to a cloud marketplace, preferably Azure

Ideally, you’ll also have

Passionate about technology and applying it to business solutions with a strong interest in blockchain and associated concepts.

What we look for

We’re interested in self-motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry.  Someone who can easily function in a collaborative, high demand, performance-driven environment. In addition we’re looking for people who recognize the accomplishments of the team before the individual and are sought after as people developers.  If you’re passionate about problem-solving and helping our clients’ with some of their most complex issues, this role is for you.

What we offer

The compensation ranges below are provided in order to comply with United States pay transparency laws. Other geographies will follow their local salary guidelines, which may not be a direct conversion of published United States salary range/s.

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business.  The salary range for this job in most geographic locations in the US is $ 98,100 to $ 178,100. The salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $ 117,700 to $ 202,400.  Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.  In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options. Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please apply to this role only through the ‘Apply’ link (not through the local office). Your application will then be routed to the appropriate recruiting team.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

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