Big Data Technical Lead

Job Title: Big Data Technical Lead

Location: Bethesda, MD

Duration: Contract

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Job Description:

· Solid working knowledge of next generation data and analytics capabilities built on the Hadoop ecosystem.

· Understanding of design patterns, application architectures and analytics workloads including micro-services, APIs, REST, NoSQL.

· Research, evaluate and utilize new technologies/tools/frameworks and build libraries, user defined functions around Hadoop ecosystem and Spark.

· Should be able to tune Hadoop solutions to improve performance and end-user experience.

· Familiarity with Data ware Housing, ETL, BI, Visualization tools, Machine Learning

· Excellent problem solving, hands-on engineering skills and communication skills and ability to lead the team and resolve their issues.

· Interact with client for requirement understanding and status reports.

Professional Experience Preferred

· Knowledge/experience of cloud computing infrastructure (e.g. Amazon Web Services EC2, Elastic MapReduce, Azure)

· Good to have experience in Application development and deployment.

· Good to have Cloudera/Hortonworks/MapR Certification – (not mandatory)

· Good to have Core Java knowledge.

· Experience with Maven, Git

Technical Skills Required

Any combination of below technical skills

Big Data : HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Pig, Mahout, Avro, Oozie, Flume, Sqoop

Processing & Streaming : Spark, Strom, Samza, Kafka

NoSQL : Cassandra, MongoDB, Hbasess

Appliances : Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum, Aster Data, Vertica

Languages : Java, Scala, Linux, Apache, Perl/Python/PHP

Search Servers : ElasticSearch,Lucene,Solr