Data Visualization Specialist

Job Summary:

The Data Visualization Specialist is a client facing role where hands on experience designing, building, and deploying data visualization solutions on platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, and others are required. A successful candidate has a passion for consulting with our clients to understand their needs, visual storytelling, and aggregating disparate data from SQL and cloud-based data platforms to convey new business insights. This position brings and maintains in-depth knowledge on visual design and data modeling best practices within visualization tools, performance tuning, and deployment strategies, as well as how to leverage the wide range of data analytics solutions within cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure or AWS.

This position will work with cutting edge technology, deliver high quality solutions across various industries, and collaborate with teams on engagements that range in size and scope. This position will receive continuous career development opportunities, given the size and potential of client engagements. This role will perform hands-on delivery of data analytics projects, contributing to the development and unit testing of solutions.

Job Duties:

• Designs and implements actionable data visualization solutions, semantic layers and models, and visualization of streaming data, for end-to-end data analytics solutions on primarily, but not limited to, cloud analytics platforms such as Azure and AWS
• Explores large data sets and relational databases, perform analyses, and identify unique storytelling opportunities
• Creates effective and compelling “art of the possible” presentations to help describe the business value of solutions
• Builds visualizations that take complex information and make it more accessible, understandable, and usable to derive insights and enable better business decisions
• Listens to client needs to align solution with business requirements, availability of data, and business prioritization
• Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with broad impact (high throughput and low latency)
• Implements programs and best practices to ensure data literacy and maturity within organizations
• Creates written functional, architectural, and technical designs
• Creates prototypes to convey if functional requirements are directionally accurate before scalable implementation
• Participates in project status and stand meetings
• Assists with SLA compliance of solutions, and performs performance tuning and optimization of solutions
• Takes branding standards and creates intentional design choices, color palette, and user experience standards. Chooses appropriate locations for objects with intent, utilizes fonts and colors to design easily consumable data assets
• Implements modern data visualization methodologies and maintains an up-to-date knowledge of data visualization strategies
• Imports, transforms, and analyzes large data sets from disparate data sources
• Creates relationships between data and developing data models
• Creates complex Data Analysis Expression (DAX) measures to support the data analysis needs of visualizations
• Maps data models to source systems and track entire data lineage
• Creates data model documentation explaining algorithms, parameters, models, and relations
• Collaborates with data engineers in ingesting and warehousing data to support data models
• Guides clients in appropriately estimating and right sizing their visualization solution licensing based on organization user base and performance/sizing needs
• Manages workspaces, user permissions, deploys apps, and maintains the overall security and health of the visualization tools and platforms
• Designs and supports complex Row Level Security (RLS) within the visualization solutions
• Assists clients with licensing, security, and cost estimation of solutions
• Works directly with clients and team members to establish secure data visualization platforms and infrastructure
• Contributes to successful deployments of developed solutions and integration of DevOps tools
• Maintains a broad and current understanding of data visualization and data analytics strategies, cloud platforms, methodologies, and tools
• Builds client relationships during project execution
• Participates in support activities for existing software solutions
• Works with the Data & AI team to perform pre-sales engineering and scoping exercises to assist with closing new opportunities
• Other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities:

N/A

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Education:

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent, required
• Bachelor’s degree, preferred; focus in Information Systems, Data Science or Computer Science, preferred

Experience:

• One (1) or more years of experience within Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, or Application Development, required
• One (1) or more years of consulting experience or implementation of cloud-based data visualization solutions, preferred

License/Certifications:

• N/A

Software:

• Strong SQL skills including Data Definition Language (DDL), Data Manipulation Language (DML), views, functions, stored procedures, or performance tuning, required
• Experience with visualization tools such as, but not limited to, Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, Looker, required
• Experience with Data Modeling, Semantic Model Definition or Star Schema Construction, preferred
• Hands on delivery experience of data visualization solutions within Azure or AWS, preferred
• Experience with Git and DevOps deployment technologies, preferred
• Experience with one (1) or more of the following, preferred:
• Wireframe mockup tools
• Process documentation tools such as Visio
• AI Algorithms/Machine Learning
• Automation tools such as UiPath, Alteryx, etc.

Language:

• N/A

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Project management and client relationship management skills
• Ability to work with a high degree of professionalism and autonomy
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Solid organizational skills, especially the ability to meet project deadlines with a focus on details
• Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a group environment
• Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment, and handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the Firm
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and client personnel
• Able to encourage a team environment on engagements
• Professional presence

Keywords:
Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Decision Intelligence, BI, Data Architect, Synapse, Machine Learning, Microsoft, SQL Server, Tableau, .Net, C#, Qlik, Power BI, Data Modeling, Azure, DAX, API, RLS, Row Level Security, Application Programming Interface, Data Analysis Expression

Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

California Range: $69,000 – $98,000
Washington Range: $69,000 – $98,000

Join us at BDO, where you will find more than a career, you’ll find a place where your work is impactful, and you are valued for your individuality. We offer flexibility and opportunities for advancement. Our culture is centered around making meaningful connections, approaching interactions with curiosity, and being true to yourself, all while making a positive difference in the world.

At BDO, our purpose of helping people thrive every day is at the heart of everything we do. Together, we are focused on delivering exceptional and sustainable outcomes and value for our people, our clients, and our communities. BDO is proud to be an ESOP company, reflecting a culture that puts people first, by sharing financially in our growth in value with our U.S. team. BDO professionals provide assurance, tax and advisory services for a diverse range of clients across the U.S. and in over 160 countries through our global organization.

BDO is the first large accounting and advisory organization to implement an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). A qualified retirement plan, the ESOP offers participants a stake in the firm’s success through beneficial ownership and a unique opportunity to enhance their financial well-being. The ESOP stands as a compelling addition to our comprehensive compensation and Total Rewards benefits* offerings. The annual allocation to the ESOP is fully funded by BDO through investments in company stock and grants employees the chance to grow their wealth over time as their shares vest and grow in value with the firm’s success, with no employee contributions.

We are committed to delivering exceptional experiences to middle market leaders by sharing insight-driven perspectives, helping companies take business as usual to better than usual. With industry knowledge and experience, a breadth and depth of resources, and unwavering commitment to quality, we pride ourselves on:

• Welcoming diverse perspectives and understanding the experience of our professionals and clients
• Empowering team members to explore their full potential
• Our talented team who brings varying skills, knowledge and experience to proactively help our clients navigate an expanding array of complex challenges and opportunities
• Celebrating ingenuity and innovation to transform our business and help our clients transform theirs
• Focus on resilience and sustainability to positively impact our people, clients, and communities
• BDO Total Rewards that encompass so much more than traditional “benefits.” Click here to find out more!

• Benefits may be subject to eligibility requirements.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets