Data Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Hybrid Hadoop Engineer and Hadoop Infrastructure Administrator to build and maintain a scalable and resilient Big Data framework to support Data Scientists. As an administrator, your responsibility will be to deploy and maintain Hadoop clusters, add and remove nodes using cluster management and monitoring tools like Cloudera Manager, and support performance and scalability requirements, in support of our Data scientist's needs. Some Relational Database administrator experience will also be desirable to support the general administration of Relational Databases.

Design, build, and maintain Big Data workflows/pipelines to process a continuous stream of data with experience in end-to-end design and build process of Near-Real-Time and Batch Data Pipelines.

Demonstrated work experience in the following with Big Data and distributed programming models and technologies
Knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices (both SQL and NoSQL).
Active development of ETL processes using Spark or other highly parallel technologies, and implementing ETL/data pipelines
Experience with Data technologies and Big Data tools, like Spark, Kafka, Hive
Understanding of Map Reduce and other Data Query and Processing and aggregation models
Understanding of challenges of transforming data across distributed clustered environment
Experience with techniques for consuming, holding, and aging out continuous data streams
Ability to provide quick ingestion tools and corresponding access APIs for continuously changing data schema, working closely with Data Engineers around specific transformation and access needs

Preferred:

Experience as a Database administrator (DBA) will be responsible for keeping critical tools database up and running
Building and managing high-availability environments for databases and HDFS systems
Familiarity with transaction recovery techniques and DB Backup

Skills and Attributes:

Ability to have effective working relationships with all functional units of the organization
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
Excellent interpersonal skills
Ability to work as part of a cross-cultural team
Self-starter and Self-motivated
Ability to work without lots of supervision
Works under pressure and is able to manage competing priorities.

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