Technical Architect

Cognizant Technologies delivers value added turn-key solutions to our clients which accelerate their organization’s growth. Whether it’s entering new markets, introducing innovative new products, or initiating transformation process changes, Cognizant Technologies will provide consistent services to their clients.

Job Description

Duration: 3-6 Months CTH

Qualifications

Experience that is a Must

• 2+ years Hadoop/ETL Experience (data processing and scripting experience).
• Expertise in Big data technologies.
• Strong background in Talend Administration, Capacity Planning in a Big Data environment.
• Ability to Install and support Talend for Big Data.
• Deep pocket experience with dealing performance issues in the entire critical path, Performance Management and is able to provide/resolve issues.
• Strong background in UNIX, SQL.
• Strong hands on with HIVE, HBASE, PIG, Spark.
• Very good understanding of Hadoop/MAPR.
• Willing to be on on-call support rotation (requires working on weekends).
• Willing to participate/drive war-rooms to address/resolve critical issues as they come.

Nice to Have

• SQOOP
• 2+ years Spark Streaming Technologies – KAFKA (strongly preferred)

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of IT experience in Architecture and Administration work.
• Minimum 2 years Talend admin experience.
• Strong technical and platform knowledge, including some or all of: Talend, Talend Administration, ETL tool (Datastage/Abinitio/Informatica), Databases (DB2/Oracle/Teradata), UNIX platform (Shell/Perl scripting), Scheduling tools (TWS/Autosys/ControlM). Knowledge BigData platform tools such as Hive, Hbase, Pig.
• 1 to 2+ years of development experience including full life cycle activities.
• Experience with Agile methodology.
• 5+ years working in LINUX or UNIX platforms.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access).
• Excellent communication, presentation skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field.

Preferred Requirements

• Splunk, and Talend

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