Work Requirements:

Candidates must have valid authorization to work in the US for any employer as a W-2 employee.

Overview:

TekPartners has some of the most sought after Information Technology positions available.  As a reputable company in the IT staffing industry, you can trust us to place you in the right position. We currently have an opportunity for a Big Data Engineer in Charlotte, NC.

Job Description:

• Expertise in Data technologies and Big Data tools, like Spark, Kafka, Hive, HBase, Sqoop, Pig, Impala, Flume, Oozie, MapReduce, etc.
• Solid knowledge of state-of-the art programming languages like Java, Python, Scala and object-oriented approaches in designing, coding, testing and debugging programs.
• Design, build and maintain Big Data workflows/pipelines to process billions of records in large-scale data environments with experience in end-to-end design and build process of Near-Real Time and Batch Data Pipelines.
• Leads code review sessions to validate adherence with development standards and benchmark application performance by capacity testing.
• Experience with software testing frameworks.
• Leverages DevOps techniques and Experience with DevOps tools - GitHub, Jira, Jenkins, Crucible for Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and build automation.
• Develop, implement and optimize streaming, data lake, and big data analytics solutions
• Support reusable framework and data governance processes by partnering with LOBs for any code/requirements remediation
• Engage in application design and data modeling discussions also participate in developing and enforcing data security policies

• Knowledge of NoSQL, RDBMS, SQL, JSON, XML and ETL skills are must.
• Experience working in an Agile delivery environment
• Ability to work independently and drive solutions end to end leveraging various technologies to solve data problems and develop solutions.
• Perform unit tests and conduct reviews with other team members to ensure code is designed with high code coverage
• Passionate for continuous learning, experimenting, applying and contributing towards cutting edge open source technologies and software paradigms
• Ability to research and assess open source technologies and components to recommend and integrate into the design and implementation
• Proven track record of customer satisfaction and delivery success and ability to establish and maintain appropriate relationships with business and IT stakeholders
• Ability to work in an advisory capacity to identify key technical business problems, develop and evaluate alternative solutions and make recommendations
• Extensive experience in all aspects of the software development life cycle