Big Data Consultant

Big Data Consultant Sonsoft, Inc. is a USA based corporation duly organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Georgia. Sonsoft Inc. is growing at a steady pace specializing in the fields of Software Development, Software Consultancy and Information Technology Enabled Services. Job Description Background in all aspects of software engineering with strong skills in parallel data processing, data flows, REST APIs, JSON, XML, and micro service architecture. Must have strong programming knowledge of Core Java or Scala - Objects & Classes, Data Types, Arrays and String Operations, Operators, Control Flow Statements, Inheritance and Interfaces, Exception Handling, Serialization, Collections, Reading and Writing Files. Must have hands on experience in design, implementation, and build of applications or solutions using Core Java/Scala. Strong understanding of Hadoop fundamentals. Must have experience working on Big Data Processing Frameworks and Tools – MapReduce, YARN, Hive, Pig. Strong understanding of RDBMS concepts and must have good knowledge of writing SQL and interacting with RDBMS and NoSQL database - HBase programmatically. Strong understanding of File Formats – Parquet, Hadoop File formats. Proficient with application build and continuous integration tools – Maven, SBT, Jenkins, SVN, Git. Experience in working on Agile and Rally tool is a plus. Strong understanding and hands-on programming/scripting experience skills – UNIX shell, Python, Perl, and JavaScript. Should have worked on large data sets and experience with performance tuning and troubleshooting. Preferred Knowledge of Java Beans, Annotations, Logging (log4j), and Generics is a plus. Knowledge of Design Patterns - Java and/or GOF is a plus. Knowledge of Spark, Spark Streaming, Spark SQL, and Kafka is a plus. Experience to Financial domain is preferred Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment Qualifications Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent required. Will also consider one year of relevant work experience in lieu of every year of education. At least 5 years of Design and development experience in Big data, Java or Datawarehousing related technologies. At least 3 years of hands on design and development experience on Big data related technologies – PIG, Hive, Mapreduce, HDFS, HBase, Hive, YARN, SPARK, Oozie, Java and shell scripting. Should be a strong communicator and be able to work independently with minimum involvement from client SMEs. Should be able to work in team in diverse/ multiple stakeholder environment. Additional Information ** U.S. citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time. Note: This is a FULL TIME job opportunity. Only US Citizen, Green Card Holder, GC-EAD, H4-EAD, L2-EAD, TN Visa can apply. No OPT-EAD & H1-B for this position. Please mention your Visa Status in your email or resume. SonSoft