Senior Big Data Engineer. Reston LilyLifestyle

Senior Big Data Engineer

As a Senior Big Data Engineer, you will be leading our Data Engineering team to design and implement highly available data services and pipelines. This is an ideal job if you have proven experience as a technical professional and have already led teams to deliver production systems based on big data solutions. If you are an engineer passionate for technology who wants to lead a mature, intensely skilled team, values total ownership of your work, and can’t imagine a day without coding, we want to speak to you!

We’re looking for a creative, focused, technically curious individual who enjoys both design as well as working hands‑on with the code and mentoring junior employees.

• Lead the design and development of data services, as part of an agile/scrum team
• Apply best practices in continuous integration and delivery
• Work with business Product Managers to translate high‑level, ambiguous business goals into working software solutions
• Design and develop stream and batch processing data pipelines

• Expertise in Java and in-depth knowledge of the JVM
• Expertise in Apache Spark or similar technologies
• Expertise in enterprise integration patterns and workflow management
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS)
• Experience and practical knowledge of OOP design patterns
• Solid knowledge of computer science fundamentals
• Distributed System Development for large‑scale applications
• Experience with continuous integration and testing
• Experience with agile methodologies and short release cycles
• Strong attention to detail, good work ethic, ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, and exemplary communication skills

• Experience working on a SAAS Product in a commercial environment
• Experience in digital media, online advertising, or reporting/analytical applications
• Experience with peta‑byte scale data warehousing is a strong plus

Technical Bachelor's Degree required, e.g. Comp Sci, Engineering, Math