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NAVA Software Solutions

Big Data Engineer

Atlanta, GA · On-site

$53.50 - $71/hr

Big Data Engineer Location: Atlanta GA - Hybrid Duration: 12 months The successful candidate must ... Strong knowledge of Messaging Platforms like Kafka, Amazon MSK & TIBCO EMS or IBM MQ Series

krg technology inc

Big Data Lead

Bethesda, MD · On-site

... Big Data : HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Pig, Mahout, Avro, Oozie, Flume, Sqoop Processing ... Amazon Web Services EC2, Elastic MapReduce, Azure) Good to have experience in Application ...

Jobsbridge

Big Data Engineer

Lorton, VA · On-site

$56.25 - $74.50/hr

Experience working on a big data platform Demonstrated deep proficiency with Big Data processing ... Development experience with Linux or Unix Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other cloud ...

krg technology inc

Big Data Architect

Bethesda, MD

$68.25 - $87.75/hr

Amazon Web Services EC2, Elastic MapReduce, Azure) * Considerable understanding and experience of ... Big Data : HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Pig, Mahout, Avro, Oozie * Processing & Streaming : Spark ...

krg technology inc

Big Data Architect

Bethesda, MD

$68.25 - $87.75/hr

Amazon Web Services EC2, Elastic MapReduce, Azure) * Considerable understanding and experience of ... Big Data : HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Pig, Mahout, Avro, Oozie * Processing & Streaming : Spark ...

krg technology inc

Big data Architect

Baltimore, MD

$63.25 - $81.50/hr

... Amazon Web Services. Lead the definition of guidelines, standards, strategies, security policies and change management policies to support the Big Data platforms. Research and evaluate technical ...

Jobsbridge

Big Data Architect

Boston, MA · On-site

$69.25 - $89/hr

... Amazon Web Services, Google, Azure - Experience managing the full lifecycle of a Hadoop Solution ... big data solutions like Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, HBASE, MongoDB, Cassandra, Spark, Impala, Oozie ...

Atria Group LLC

Big Data Analytics Developer

Saint Louis, MO · On-site

$51.50 - $66.75/hr

Senior Big Data Analytics Developer w/proven experience leading the design and build of 'Big Data ... Must be well-versed in writing Scala architecture on OS X and AWS (Amazon Web Services), as well as ...

Amazon

Data Engineer, Amazon Fuse

Seattle, WA · On-site

$130K - $156K/yr

Amazon Fuse ( helps third party subscription-based businesses better serve their customers by ... big data technologies. - Design and implement ETL pipelines and BI solutions, identifying ...

Mackenzie Health Care

Big Data Architect

New York, NY · On-site

$69.75 - $89.75/hr

Company needs Architect with Big Data Technologies experience (BigTable, Hadoop/Hbase, Cassandra ... infrastructure (Amazon Web services EC2, Elastic MapReduce) and considerations for scalable ...

R2 Technologies Corporation

Big Data Engineer

Alpharetta, GA · On-site

$54.50 - $72/hr

... Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. Work Experience: • Demonstrated experience designing and building Big Data cloud solutions in higher languages such as python/Java. • Experience working ...

Mackenzie Health Care

Big Data Architect

New York, NY · On-site

$69.75 - $89.75/hr

For this position you must have a passion for Big Data technologies, and have an excellent ... infrastructure (Amazon Web services EC2, Elastic MapReduce) and considerations for scalable ...

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Big Data Engineer

Atlanta, GA • On-site

NAVA Software Solutions
IT Services • 51 - 200 employees
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$53.50 - $71/hr

Full-time

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NAVA Software solutions is looking for a Big Data Engineer
Details:
Big Data Engineer
Location: Atlanta GA - Hybrid
Duration: 12 months
Job Description
The successful candidate must have Big Data engineering experience and must demonstrate an affinity for working with others to create successful solutions. Join a smart, highly skilled team with a passion for technology, where you will work on our state of the art Big Data Platforms. They must be a very good communicator, both written and verbal, and have some experience working with business areas to translate their business data needs and data questions into project requirements. The candidate will participate in all phases of the Data Engineering life cycle and will independently and collaboratively write project requirements, architect solutions and perform data ingestion development and support duties.
Skills and Experience:
Required:
  • 8+ years of overall IT experience
  • 3+ years of experience with high-velocity high-volume stream processing: Apache Kafka and Spark Streaming
  • Experience with real-time data processing and streaming techniques using Spark structured streaming and Kafka
  • Deep knowledge of troubleshooting and tuning Spark applications
  • 3+ years of experience with data ingestion from Message Queues (Tibco, IBM, etc.) and different file formats across different platforms like JSON, XML, CSV
  • 3+ years of experience with Big Data tools/technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Spark SQL, Kafka, Sqoop, Hive, S3, HDFS, or
  • 3+ years of experience building, testing, and optimizing 'Big Data' data ingestion pipelines, architectures, and data sets
  • 2+ years of experience with Python (and/or Scala) and PySpark/Scala-Spark
  • 3+ years of experience with Cloud platforms e.g. AWS, GCP, etc.
  • 3+ years of experience with database solutions like Kudu/Impala, or Delta Lake or Snowflake or BigQuery
  • 2+ years of experience with NoSQL databases, including HBASE and/or Cassandra
  • Experience in successfully building and deploying a new data platform on Azure/ AWS
  • Experience in Azure / AWS Serverless technologies, like, S3, Kinesis/MSK, lambda, and Glue
  • Strong knowledge of Messaging Platforms like Kafka, Amazon MSK & TIBCO EMS or IBM MQ Series
  • Experience with Databricks UI, Managing Databricks Notebooks, Delta Lake with Python, Delta Lake with Spark SQL, Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog
  • Knowledge of Unix/Linux platform and shell scripting is a must
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Preferred (Not Required):
  • Strong SQL skills with ability to write intermediate complexity queries
  • Strong understanding of Relational & Dimensional modeling
  • Experience with GIT code versioning software
  • Experience with REST API and Web Services
  • Good business analyst and requirements gathering/writing skills
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NAVA is a strategic partner for companies seeking to develop or customize software and products. Our team of experts leverages cutting-edge technology and deep industry knowledge to provide customized solutions that drive business success. Whether you're looking to improve your operations, increase efficiency, or bring a new product to market, NAVA has the expertise and resources to help you achieve your goals. Trust us to be your partner in software and product development.

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