Our client is looking to build and strengthen their Big Data Solutions Architects teams across the country.  The ideal candidate will possess skills that make them a subject matter expert in various big data technologies and data science.  These roles will entail architecture analysis, design, client management, and other skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development of proposals for implementation and design of scalable big data architecture
• Participation in customer’s workshops and presentation of the proposed solution;
• Design, implement, and deploy high-performance, custom applications at scale on Hadoop;
• Define and develop network infrastructure solutions to enable partners and clients to scale NoSQL and relational database architecture for growing demands and traffic;
• Define common business and development processes, platform and tools usage for data acquisition, storage, transformation, and analysis;
• Develop roadmaps and implementation strategy around data science initiatives including recommendation engines, predictive modeling, and machine learning;
• Review and audit of existing solution, design and system architecture;
• Perform profiling, troubleshooting of existing solutions;
• Create technical documentation;

QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as Java, Python, or Scala;
• Participation in designing, development, or maintenance of a distributed application;
• Experience with major big data technologies and frameworks including but not limited to Hadoop, MapReduce, Apache Spark, Hive, Kafka, Apache Flink, Flume, ZooKeeper, HBase, MongoDB, and Cassandra;
• Experience with big data solutions developed in large cloud computing infrastructures such as Amazon Web Services, Azure Cloud, or Google Cloud;
• Experience in  client-driven large-scale implementation projects;
• Data Science and Analytics experience is a plus (Machine Learning, Recommendation Engines, Search Personalization, Deep Learning);
• Technical team leading and team management experience, deep understanding of Agile (Scrum), RUP programming process;
• Strong experience in applications design, development, and maintenance;
• Solid knowledge of design patterns, refactoring concepts, unit tests, and CI/CD;
• Practical expertise in performance tuning and optimization, bottleneck problems analysis;
• Solid technical expertise & troubleshooting skills;
• Possess expertise in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design;
• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent in Software Engineer, Computer Science or closely related field
• Fluent oral and written English;
• Ability to travel up to 50%