Big Data Consultant

Big Data Consultant

Contract

Company Description

vTech can help you avoid the daunting task of writing and posting job offers, shifting through resumes and laboring through the lengthy interview process. Our Staffing solutions will allow you to elude those tasks and place topnotch, high-caliber professionals in the position you need to fill.

We use our expertise, knowledge, and global resources to deliver top-quality candidates and tailor our IT and Non-IT recruitment services to your needs. This allows us to deliver the required results in a timely manner that meets your schedule at a substantially reduced cost.

We pride ourselves for having one of the fastest growth rate and also the lowest turnover rates in the industry just 2.5 percent annually. We focus on the training and retaining qualified professionals with high personal and work ethics. With the help of our extensive database of internal candidates and CATS applicants tracking system, we can provide quality resources within the limited time frame.

We have also successfully placed hundreds of candidates in the areas related to Information Technology, Engineering, professional, Scientific & Clinical, etc. for both our commercial and government clients.

1. Source: A recruiter sources candidates from various sources; the search starts from our proprietary database. Using advanced sourcing methods like social media, professional networking media, internal, and 3rd party job boards, we identify qualified candidates.
2. Validate: A recruiter validates the candidates' experience and skill sets against our client's position.
3. Initial Screening: Based on the position and the client's work culture, the recruiter uses initial screening questions to determine the most suitable candidates.
4. Submit: The recruiter will submit to the technical team qualified candidates who have passed the initial screening.
5. Technical Screening: The technical team then prepares a matrix of the particular requirements and required experience for the position and using a list of questions and the results, re-validates the candidates' technical skills.
6. Background Check: Administrative personnel will provide a detailed background check, as required, per client agreement.
7. On board: On successfully completing the above steps, the candidates are welcomed on board and assisted to ensure a smooth integration at the client's location.

Job Description

The Client seeks an experienced IT Consultant to support the design, development and implementation of an enterprise Big Data solution as part of the Data Modernization Effort.

This role will provide expertise to support the development of a Big Data / Data Lake system architecture that supports enterprise data operations for the client, including the Internet of Things (IoT) / Smart City projects, enterprise data warehouse, the open data portal, and data science applications. This is an exciting opportunity to work as a part of a collaborative senior data team. This role is not to administer systems, but to bring together existing enterprise data systems into an innovative Big Data solution. This architecture includes an API gateway, ORACLE, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Spark, Tableau, Microstrategy, ArcGIS, Informatica, and others.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinates IT project management, engineering, maintenance, QA, and risk management.
• Plans, coordinates, and monitors project activities.
• Develops technical applications to support users.
• Develops, implements, maintains and enforces documented standards and procedures for the design, development, installation, modification, and documentation of assigned systems.
• Provides training for system products and procedures.
• Performs application upgrades.
• Performs, monitoring, maintenance, or reporting on real- time databases, real-time network and serial data communications, and real-time graphics and logic applications.
• Troubleshoots problems.
• Ensures project life-cycle is in compliance with District standards and procedures.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience

Skill Matrix:

• Experience with Big Data components to include: Hadoop, HDFS, Hbase, Hive, Sqoop, Kafka, Storm, MapReduce, elastic search, and others
• Knowledge of Big Data and Data Architecture and Implementation best practices
• Knowledge of Data-centric systems for the analysis and visualization of data, such as Tableau, Microstrategy, ArcGIS, Kibana, Oracle
• Experience querying SQL and NoSQL data sources
• Experience modeling and ingesting data into and between various data systems
• Experience with API / Web Services (REST/SOAP)
• Experience with API Gateway / complex event processing (real-time streaming analytics)
• Experience using front-end tools to display data, esp. Angular 2, JQuery, D3 and Bootstrap
• 16+ yrs planning, coordinating, and monitoring project activities
• 16+ yrs leading projects, ensuring they are in compliance with established standards/procedures
• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.