Lead Qlik Engineer

Raymond James Financial, Inc.; Southfield (MI); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Raymond James Financial, Inc. is seeking a Qlik Developer to design and deliver Qlik Sense applications, dashboards, and data models within our hybrid work environment.

You will work across the full lifecycle—from requirements gathering and data transformation to deployment and production support—collaborating with analytics, IT, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven Qlik Sense application development experience.
• Strong Qlik scripting, data modeling, data transformation, and data pipeline development skills.
• Strong SQL skills with experience integrating multiple enterprise data sources.
• Ability to gather and analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Experience troubleshooting data, application, reload, and performance issues.
• Understanding of development lifecycle practices including development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Proven track record of independently delivering technical solutions and achieving results.
• Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to quickly learn new technologies, platform capabilities, and development approaches.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across the full application lifecycle—from requirements gathering and data access/transformation to deployment and production support.
• Translate business requirements into scalable Qlik solutions.
• Analyze data quality and troubleshoot data, application, reload, and performance issues.
• Document and share knowledge; contribute to technical standards and continuous improvement.

Skills

Qlik development

Qlik Sense

Qlik scripting

Data modeling

Data transformation

Data pipelines

SQL

Requirements gathering

Problem-solving

Communication

Documentation

Independent delivery

Learning agility

Tools

Qlik Cloud

Qlik SaaS

REST API

Git

CI/CD

DevOps

Cloud security

Job description

This position follows our hybrid workstyle policy: expected to be in a Raymond James office location three days per week, with at least one of those days being a Monday or a Friday.

Please note: This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future.

Required

• Demonstrated Qlik development experience, including Qlik Sense application development.
• Strong Qlik scripting, data modeling, data transformation, and data pipeline development skills.
• Strong SQL skills and experience integrating multiple enterprise data sources.
• Ability to gather and analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Experience troubleshooting data, application, reload, and performance issues.
• Understanding of development lifecycle practices including development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Proven track record of independently delivering technical solutions and achieving results.
• Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to quickly learn new technologies, platform capabilities, and development approaches.

Preferred

• Qlik Cloud / Qlik SaaS development or administration experience.
• Experience migrating or modernizing Qlik applications for cloud environments.
• Qlik Application Automation or other workflow automation experience.
• Qlik Data Gateway and cloud data connectivity experience.
• REST API and systems integration experience.
• Git, CI/CD, automation, or DevOps experience.
• Understanding of cloud security, identity and access management, role-based access controls, and governed development environments.
• Experience with additional Qlik capabilities beyond traditional application development.
• General cloud platform and modern data architecture experience.

Additional Information:

This role requires more than dashboard development. The individual should be capable of working across the application lifecycle—from understanding requirements and accessing and transforming data through developing, testing, deploying, troubleshooting, and supporting solutions in production.

Strong understanding of emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI (GenAI), automation, and data-driven decision-making. They will drive complex initiatives from requirements discovery and documentation through implementation while helping identify opportunities to leverage AI capabilities to improve business processes, operational efficiency, and client outcomes.

They should be able to work effectively with business stakeholders, developers, platform administrators, data teams, and other technology partners and should contribute to technical standards, documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement