Senior Hadoop Architect

Company Description First IT Solutions

Job Description

Must have technical competency : Strong hands-on knowledge in

Core Java, J2EE, JDBC, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Hadoop Distributed File Systems : HDFS Hadoop Map Reduce, Parallel Processing, Stream Processing, Flume, Splunk Architectural Patterns

Analytical Tools : SAS, SPSS, R, Mahout

Hands-on experience with BI tools and reporting software (e.g. Microstrategy, Cognos, Pentaho) Hands-on experience with the Hadoop stack (e.g. MapReduce, Sqoop, Pig, Hive, Hbase, Flume) Hands-on experience with related/complementary open source software platforms and languages (e.g. Java, Linux, Apache, Perl/Python/PHP, Chef) Hands-on experience with ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) tools (e.g Informatica, Talend, Pentaho) Hands-on experience with any 1 of analytical tools, languages, or libraries (e.g. SAS, SPSS, R, Mahout) Hands-on experience with "productionalizing" Hadoop applications (e.g. administration, configuration management, monitoring, debugging, and performance tuning) Ability to critically evaluate multiple architecture options Strong technical documentation skills Should know how to translate business requirements into analytical requirements

Required Skill Set :

Strong business development focus with an opportunistic attitude Responsible for talent management and recruiting to grow, at the same time, infusing the right “analytics-driven” culture

Knowledge in any one of the following :

Previous experience with high-scale or distributed RDBMS (Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum, Aster Data, Vertica) Knowledge of cloud computing infrastructure (e.g. Amazon Web Services EC2, Elastic MapReduce) and considerations for scalable, distributed systems Knowledge of NoSQL platforms (e.g. key-value stores, graph databases, RDF triple stores)

Experience in applying Big Data technology to any of the following use cases will be a definite plus :

Unstructured Search

Telematics Fraud Detection Call Centre Analytics Social Media Analytics

Desired Hands-on Experience RangeMinimum 4+ years and ideally 8+ years’ experience in industries, preferably insurance, banking, financial services, healthcare, or retail.

Qualifications

Bachelors/Masters/PhD Additional Information Job Status: Permanent

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