Job Title: Big Data Architect
Location: Bethesda, MD
Duration: Contract
Job Description:
Professional Experience Required
- 12-15 years of experience in designing, architecting and implementing large scale data processing/data storage/data distribution systems
- Extensive experience working with large data sets with hands-on technology skills to design and build robust Big Data solutions
- Experience having deployed BigData technologies to production
- Ability to work with a multi-technology/cross-functional teams and customer stakeholders to guide/managing a full life-cycle of a Hadoop solution
- Extensive experience in data modeling and database design involving any combination of -
- Data warehousing and Business Intelligence systems and tools
- Relational and MPP database platforms like Netezza, Teradata
- Open source Hadoop stack
- Hands-on administration, configuration management, monitoring, performance tuning of Hadoop/Distributed platforms
- Strong understanding of Big Data Analytics platforms and ETL in the context of Big Data
- Ability to frame architectural decisions, provide technology leadership & direction
- Excellent problem solving, hands-on engineering skills and communication skills
Professional Experience Preferred
- Understanding of Lambda design architectures are Real-Time streaming
- Knowledge/experience of cloud computing infrastructure (e.g. Amazon Web Services EC2, Elastic MapReduce, Azure)
- Considerable understanding and experience of real-time analytics
- Should be willing to independently code & review modules are required ( Role not at solution architecture level only)
Technical Skills Required
Any combination of below technical skills
- Big Data : HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Pig, Mahout, Avro, Oozie
- Processing & Streaming : Spark, Strom, Samza, Kafka
- NoSQL : Cassandra, MongoDB, Hbase
- Appliances : Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum, Aster Data, Vertica
- Languages : Java, Scala, Linux, Apache, Perl/Python/PHP
