Position : Big Data Engineer (INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR)

BIG DATA ENGINEER
Pittsburgh PA
Contract  / Contract to Hire
Will Start Remote but Candidate has to live in or relocate to Pittsburgh right away

Responsibilities:

• Develop scalable streaming solutions based on Apache Spark and Apache Kafka using Scala and Java

• Design, architect, optimize, and refactor code to maximize performance

• Write comprehensive automated unit tests

• Inform and encourage the technical growth of the team

• Support existing programs and modules from both debugging and enhancement perspectives

• Participate in code reviews and extensive unit testing

• Write technical documents as part of established methodology

• Write functional and technical specification documents and collaborate with systems analysts and product owner to ensure solutions align with business objectives

• Work closely with Q/A team and internal users

Requirements:

• Requires a four-year degree in Computer Science/Information Technology, Computer/Electrical Engineering or related discipline

• At least five years of experience in systems analysis and programming, addressing unique issues of architecture and data management

• Experience to work at the highest technical level of all phases of systems analysis and programming activity across the full scope of software development cycle

• Experience with Spark, Scala or similar functional programming language

• Experience with Hadoop data stores and formats like Hive, HBase, and Parquet

• REST-based Web service development experience

• Experience with the JVM

• Experience with SQL and RDBMS technologies

• Experience building scalable solutions

• Experience with automated unit testing

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team