Big Data Engineer

Our client works with a variety of clients from start-ups to fortune 500 companies. We are looking for a detailed oriented self-starter to assist our engineering and analytics teams in various roles as a Software Development Engineer.

This position will be a part of a growing team working towards building world class large scale Big Data architectures. This individual should have a sound understanding of programming principles, experience in programming in Java, Python or similar languages and can expect to spend a majority of their time coding.

Responsibilities:

• Hands on coder with good experience in programming languages like Java, Python or Scala.
• Hands-on experience on the Big Data stack like Hadoop, Mapreduce, Spark, Hbase, and ElasticSearch.
• Good understanding of programming principles and development practices like check in policy, unit testing, code deployment
• Self starter to be able to grasp new concepts and technology and translate them into large scale engineering developments
• Excellent experience in Application development and support, integration development and data management.
• daily with customers across leading Fortune 500 companies to understand strategic requirements
• Stay up-to-date on the latest technology to ensure the greatest ROI for customers.
• Hands on coder with good understanding on enterprise level code
• Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems
• Experience in defining technical requirements, data extraction, data transformation, automating jobs, productionizing jobs, and exploring new big data technologies within a Parallel Processing environment
• Must be a strategic thinker with the ability to think unconventional / out of box.
• Analytical and data driven orientation.
• Raw intellect, talent and energy are critical.
• Understands the demands of a private, high growth company.
• Ability to be both a leader and hands on "doer".

Qualifications: -

• 4+ Years of track record of relevant work experience and a computer Science or related technical discipline is required
• Experience with functional and object-oriented programming, Java, Python or Scala is a must.
• Hands-on experience on the Big Data stack like Hadoop, Mapreduce, Spark, Hbase, and ElasticSearch.
• Good understanding of AWS services and experienced in working with API’s, microservices.
• Effective communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Ability to collaborate with a diverse set of engineers, data scientists and product managers
• Comfort in a fast-paced start-up environment

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience in agile methodology
• Experience with database modeling and development, data mining and warehousing.
• Experience in architecture and delivery of Enterprise scale applications and capable in developing framework, design patterns etc.
• Should be able to understand and tackle technical challenges, propose comprehensive solutions and guide junior staff
• Experience working with large, complex data sets from a variety of sources