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KPMG is currently seeking a Manager, Data Science to join our Consulting practice.

Responsibilities:

• Translate advanced business analytics problems into technical approaches that yield actionable recommendations, in diverse domains. Communicate technical details of solution, including mathematical formulations, alternatives, and impact on modeling approach to business stakeholders across industries (technology, financial services, emerging tech, government agencies - federal, state and local, and utilities).
• Plan engagement objectives, key deliverables, and deliver on engagement milestones by following analytics processes; Work with clients to discover, retrieve, prepare, and process a variety of data sources (social media, news, internal/external documents, emails, financial, and operational).
• Work internally within KPMG's other areas within Tax, Audit and Advisory to advance the client understanding of Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Advanced Analytics; Work very closely with emerging technologies group within AI service providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) to provide a first-in-market solution approaches to complex business problems.
• Lead multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams to rapidly iterate models and results to refine and validate approach; Lead team in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with both virtual and face-to-face interactions; Utilize structured approaches to solving problems, managing risks, and multiple responsibilities using structured approaches for operational excellence; Communicate results to executive level audiences.
• Leverage deep technical knowledge to build, review, and quality control code to prepare, extract, and enrich data sources, working with the business to understand available resources and constraints around data. Lead team in exploratory data analysis, generating and testing working hypotheses, and uncovering interesting trends and relationships. Provide expert oversight for teams building machine learning algorithms and data science solutions.
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications:

• Minimum of five years of experience leading teams of at least five data scientists, engineers, and other data & analytics professionals, including business development, requirements gathering, people development, and quality management using analytics and software development processes for natural language processing, machine learning on unstructured data, and/or information retrieval; Multidisciplinary backgrounds.
• Master's degree from an accredited college/university in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Engineering, or related fields; PhD from an accredited college/university is preferred
• Proficiency in delivering analytics projects using leading processes including expert knowledge of data discovery, cleaning, model selection, validation, and deployment; Ability to work with team members and clients to assess needs, provide assistance, and resolve problems.
• Ability to apply artificial intelligence techniques to achieve concrete business goals; ability to work with the business to understand available resources and constraints around data (sources, integrity, and definitions), processing platforms, and security; Provide assistance, and resolve problems, using solid problem-solving skills and strong verbal/written communication.
• Ability to utilize a diverse array of technologies and tools as needed, to deliver insights, such as fluency in Python or R; Experience with SQL and cloud technology preferred; Experience with command-line scripting, data structures, and algorithms; Ability to work in Linux and/or cloud environments; Ability to write production level code.
• Ability to travel 
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)

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KPMG recruits on a rolling basis. Candidates are considered as they apply, until the opportunity is filled. Candidates are encouraged to apply expeditiously to any role(s) for which they are qualified that is also of interest to them.

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