Senior Data Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, code, test, document, and maintain high-quality and scalable Big Data solutions in public and on-prem cloud.
• Research, evaluate, and deploy new tools, frameworks and patterns to build sustainable Big Data platform.
• Identify gaps and opportunities for improvement of existing solutions
• Define and develop APIs for integration with various data sources in the enterprise
• Analyze and define customer requirements.
• Assist in defining product technical architecture.
• Make accurate development effort estimates to assist management in project and resource planning.
• Create prototypes, proof-of-concepts & design and code reviews
• Collaborate with management, quality assurance, architecture, and other development teams
• Write technical documentation and participate in production support.
• Keep skills up to date through ongoing self-directed training.
• The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who can learn things quickly who is enthusiastic, active, and eager to learn.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of hands-on Software Development experience using Java or Scala.
• 8+ years of experience in Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS, Spark, Streaming, Kafka and NoSQL
• 8+ years of experience in at least one major public cloud platform (Azure or AWS preferred)
• 8+ years of previous relational database experience working with DB2, Oracle or SQL Server
• Hands on experience with Databricks
• Thorough understanding of service-oriented architecture (SOA) concepts.
• Previous experience with Agile/SCRUM methodology/best practices
• Previous experience and successful track-record of learning new tools and technologies and leveraging these on integration and implementation projects

• Databricks certification preferred