Big Data Engineer

Big Data Engineer

Experian

12+ month contract

Remote - HQ in Costa Mesa, CA

• BS degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent

• 5 – 6 years of experience delivering enterprise software solutions

• Proficient in Spark, Scala, Python, AWS Cloud technologies

• 3+ years of experience across multiple Hadoop / Spark technologies such as Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS, HBase, Hive, Flume, Sqoop, Kafka, Scala

• Flair for data, schema, data model, how to bring efficiency in big data related life cycle

• Must be able to quickly understand technical and business requirements and can translate them into technical implementations

• Experience with Agile Development methodologies

• Experience with data ingestion and transformation

• Solid understanding of secure application development methodologies

• Experienced in developing microservices using spring framework is a plus

• Experience in with Airflow and Python will be preferred

• Understanding of automated QA needs related to Big data

• Strong object-oriented design and analysis skills

Responsibilities

• Utilize your software engineering skills including Java, Spark, Python, Scala to Analyze disparate, complex systems and collaboratively design new products and services

• Integrate new data sources and tools

• Implement scalable and reliable distributed data replication strategies

• Ability to mentor and provide direction in architecture and design to onsite/offshore developers

• Collaborate with other teams to design and develop and deploy data tools that support both operations and product use cases

• Perform analysis of large data sets using components from the Hadoop ecosystem

• Own product features from the development, testing through to production deployment

• Evaluate big data technologies and prototype solutions to improve our data processing architecture

• Automate everything