LEAD BIG DATA DEVELOPER | DC/MD/VA AND NYC (100% REMOTE)

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ROLE: LEAD BIG DATA DEVELOPER

LOCATION: DC/MD/VA AND NYC (100% REMOTE)

DURATION: 6-8 MONTH

VISA: , GC-EAD, GC- (W2/1099) CAN APPLY. (NO H1B)

8 -12+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Understand complex business requirements Design and develop ETL pipeline for collecting, validating and transforming data according to the specification Develop automated unit tests, functional tests and performance tests. Maintain optimal data pipeline architecture Design ETL jobs for optimal execution in the AWS cloud environment Reduce processing time and cost of ETL workloads Lead peer reviews and design/code review meetings Provide support for the production support operations team Implement data quality checks. Identify areas where machine learning can be used to identify data anomalies

Experience & Qualifications

7+ years of experience in programming language Java or Scala 7+ years of experience in ETL projects 5+ years of experience in big data projects 3+ years of experience with API development (REST API's) Believes in Scrum/Agile, and has deep experience delivering software when working on teams that use Scrum/Agile methodology Strong and creative analytical and problem-solving skills

Required Technical Skills & Knowledge

Strong experience in Java or Scala Strong experience in big data technologies like AWS EMR, AWS EKS, Apache Spark Strong experience with serverless technologies like AWS Dynamo DB, AWS Lambda Strong experience in processing with JSON and csv files Must be able to write complex SQL queries Experience in performance tuning and optimization Familiar with columnar storage formats (ORC, Parquet) and various compression techniques Experience in writing Unix shell scripts Unit testing using JUnit or ScalaTest Git/Maven/Gradle Code Reviews Experience with CI/CD pipelines Agile

The following skills a plus:

AWS Cloud BPM/ AWS Step Functions Python scripting Performance testing tools like Gatling or JMeter

Top Skills' Details

Lead/Senior Big Data Developer This person will not be leading the team or have any direct reports but will be a senior developer on the team who can provide technical mentorship to other engineers. Preference is to start with candidates local to DC/MD/VA and NYC. This is a 100% remote role and candidates will not be required onsite regularly. Prior to an interview with the client, candidates must complete a Glider assessment, which I will send to candidates directly. Exp programming in Scala. Strong experience in big data technologies like AWS EMR and Apache Spark Strong experience with serverless technologies like AWS DynamoDB and AWS Lambda The chosen database is AWS Aurora

Technical experience in all the areas listed below:

Experience working with JSON files as data will be coming in as JSON files Ability to write complex SQL queries Strong experience in performance tuning and optimization Strong unit testing using JUnit or ScalaTest is the minimum expectation, data testing experience would be great Git/Maven/Gradle

Tech Stack:

Scala is the main programming language for the team. Aurora is a database. SQL is the backend database ETL process is Scala/Spark on EMR clusters. Code reviews are a large aspect of team culture. Agile environment with 2-week sprints Lead Big Data Developer Are you passionate about data? Do you like working in a challenging environment where a massive volume of data is ingested and processed every day? Are you a continuous learner who wants to learn new tools and technologies in evolving big data and data science technology? Do you have a passion for detecting data anomalies in large datasets? Do you expect the best from yourself and those around you?

We are looking for a lead big data developer for an ETL project in our enterprise Transparency Services group. Big data developers will work on designing, ingesting, storing, validating and disseminating, after transforming data in a consumable format, for business intelligence teams and data analysts to get deeper business insight from the data.

Nice to have skills:

AWS Aurora Data testing

LEAD BIG DATA DEVELOPER | DC/MD/VA AND NYC (100% REMOTE)

Key Skills

• AWS Lambda