Big Data Architect

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