Big Data Architect

A Global IT consulting firm with several large customer engagements across Europe and US. It provides strategic business consulting, technology, engineering and outsourcing services to help clients leverage technology and create impactful and measurable business value for every IT investment.

We have a Big Data Architect position open with one of our clients. The job details are as follows:

• Job Title:
  
  Big Data Architect
• Location:
  
  Memphis, TN
• Duration:
  Full/Permanent

Qualifications Basic:

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
• Minimum 12-15 years of experience in IT space and minimum 2-3 years of Big Data platform experience.

Preferred

Skills:

• Minimum 12-15 years of experience in IT space and minimum 2-3 years of Big Data platform experience
• Well-versed with overall IT landscape, technologies, and able to analyze how different technologies integrate with each other
• Able to provide scalable and robust solution architecture depending on the needs
• Able to compare tools and technologies and recommend a tool or technology
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Distributed processing framework
• Experience executing big data projects (end to end)
• Strong technical expertise and hands-on experience on Hive, Flume, Oozie, HBase & other Hadoop components
• Strong background & hands-on experience of SPARK or JAVA or Data warehouse / ETL/BI or DWH appliances
• Strong customer service skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment, stay motivated and flexible
• Ability to work cross-functionally to deliver appropriate resolution of technical, procedural, and operational issues
• Deep Knowledge of either Cloudera/Horton Works/MapR/Pivotal
• Good knowledge of No
  
  SQL Databases/HBase/ MongoDB
• Very good understanding of in-memory databases and distributed databases
• Thoroughly understanding of how to handle real-time data integration
• Good understanding of security aspects including Kerberos, Sentry etc
• Good experience with databases and SQL
• Good experience with at least one programming language like Scala, Java, Python, Pig etc
• Good experience with Analytics use cases and R language
• Proven expertise of delivering end-to-end projects working with virtual teams

Additional Preferred

Skills:

• Experience in building Analytical solutions on Big Data Platform
• Experience in building cloud-based applications
• Experience in building reporting applications using reporting & visualization tools like Tableau, Qlikview etc
• Thought leader who writes blogs, publishes his/her articles on regular basis, participates as speaker in conferences

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.