Big data hiring trends, data engineer and data architect staffing insights, and guidance on building analytics teams with expertise in Hadoop, Spark, cloud data warehouses, and modern data stack technologies.
By Khurram Tehseen, FSA, Founder and Principal at Operating Alpha A closed block conversion team models at four contract seats, a data analyst, a senior data engineer, a business systems analyst and a senior project manager, costing about $430,700 for six months at national medians. That figure comes from the KORE1 Contract Rate Index 2026-Q4 … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 A Power BI developer job description should state the storage mode and model size, the license and capacity it runs on, how much Power Query and DAX the role owns, how content reaches production, and a published pay range. Generic BI postings skip all five. The candidates … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Power BI developer interview questions in 2026 should make the candidate predict what a DAX measure returns before anyone runs it, and say where each Power Query step actually executes. Building a chart is the easy part of the job. Reading a model is the hard part, and it … Read more
The top analytics recruiting firms in 2026 are KORE1, Harnham, Analytic Recruiting, Burtch Works, Dataspace, Kforce, and Robert Half, ranked by the Placement Authority Score across analytics role segmentation, tool-stack screening depth, vertical industry coverage, and placement retention. KORE1 ranks first for its ability to screen across all four analytics tiers, from data analyst through … Read more
A data migration plan is a written document that names what moves, how each field maps, which numbers must reconcile before cutover, who approves each gate, and the exact conditions that trigger rollback. Most of what gets circulated as a migration plan is a Gantt chart with the word “migration” on it. That is a … Read more
Data quality is whether a value can support the decision it feeds. An uncertainty tag marks what a number cannot support yet, why, and who will settle it.
Entity resolution decides which records describe the same borrower. One borrower, five systems, five names, and the crosswalk that puts them back together.
Key person risk in data means one employee is the sole route to the numbers. Rebuild one closed quarter without them, log every question, and read the log.
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A data warehouse migration moves the tables, SQL code, pipelines, and reports off a legacy platform like Teradata, Netezza, or Hadoop and onto a cloud warehouse such as Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery. It runs in four phases. Each phase needs different people, and most companies staff it … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Good chief data officer interview questions make finalists prove, with dated examples, that they have tied a data program to a financial result, shut down a project, and explained a data failure to unhappy executives. Questions about vision and philosophy are easy to rehearse. Questions about money, stopping, and … Read more
