Data Management Team Lead

APN Consulting, Inc. is a progressive IT staffing and services company offering innovative business solutions to improve client business outcomes. We focus on high impact technology solutions in ServiceNow, Fullstack, Cloud & Data, and AI / ML. Due to our globally expanding service offerings we are seeking top-talent to join our teams and grow with us.

Direct Client Requirement

Fulltime/Contract to Hire

Job title: Lead Data Engineer

New York, NY

Department overview : This Department is responsible for delivering and supporting business applications across Human Resources, Audit, Legal, Business Resilience, and Real Estate in addition to offering cross-functional reporting and content management services

Role description:

The successful candidate will be a key member of the HR Technology team, responsible for developing and maintaining global HR applications with a primary focus on HR Analytics ecosystem. This role combines technical expertise with HR domain knowledge to deliver robust data solutions that enable advanced analytics and data science initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and support HR business applications, including problem resolution and issue ownership
• Design and develop ETL/ELT layer for HR data integration and ensure data quality and consistency
• Provide architecture solutions for Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, and Data Governance
• Develop and maintain data ingestion processes using Informatica, Python, and related technologies
• Support data analytics and data science initiatives with optimized data structures and AI/ML tools
• Manage vendor products and their integrations with internal/external applications
• Gather requirements and translate functional needs into technical specifications
• Perform QA testing and impact analysis across the BI ecosystem
• Maintain system documentation and knowledge repositories
• Provide technical guidance and manage stakeholder communications

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering with 4 years of delivery and maintenance work experience in the Data and Analytics space.
• Strong hands-on experience with data management, data warehouse/data lake design, data modeling, ETL Tools, advanced SQL and Python programming.
• Exposure to AI & ML technologies and experience tuning models and building LLM integrations.
• Experience conducting Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to identify trends and patterns, report key metrics.
• Extensive database development experience in MS SQL Server/ Oracle and SQL scripting.
• Demonstrable working knowledge of tools in CI/CD pipeline primarily GitLab and Jenkins
• Proficiency in using collaboration tools like Confluence, SharePoint, JIRA
• Analytical skills to model business functions, processes and dataflow within or between systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills to debug complex, time-critical production incidents.
• Good interpersonal skills to engage with senior stakeholders in functional business units and IT teams.
• Experience with Cloud Data Lake technologies such as Snowflake and knowledge of HR data model would be a plus.

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where individuals from all backgrounds feel valued and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. We strongly encourage applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, abilities, and experiences to join our team and help us build a culture of belonging.