Big Data Engineer/Senior Architect

Job Title: Big Data Engineer/Senior Architect
Position Type: Full Time
Location: Bellevue, WA, 98004 (Bellevue Onsite is preferred, if not can be remote but must be able to work pacific time zone)

Must be Covid Vaccinated. 

The Big Data Engineer/Senior Architect role is for a passionate, technically minded, and data driven Sr. Developer to lead the development of distributed back-end systems that interface directly with applications within the Android ecosystem. The Big Data Engineer/Senior Architect will manage and grow the custom data ingestion service. This service is responsible for receiving streaming data from millions of customer devices and ingesting these payloads into our cloud data lakehouse for downstream analytics. 

Requirements

• Design, implement, test, and deploy data processing infrastructure
• Contribute to architecture of highly scalable and reliable data engineering solutions for moving large data efficiently across systems
• Perform work in an Agile team setting
• Communicate work across different levels and orgs
• Work in a large, complex data infrastructure environment
• Integrate mobile devices to REST API interfaces
• Design and establish coding patterns/standards across multiple code repositories
• Mentor team members on writing code that is efficient, maintainable, and testable
• Re-architecting an expansive code base while transitioning technologies or frameworks
• Managing and ingesting data from upstream sources into Snowflake data warehouse
• Full development life cycle management, including gathering, analysis, architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and technical support. 
• Responsible for creating stored procedures and functions
• Develop dimensional data model with the industry-standard tool
• Interpret reporting requirements into actionable development tasks
• Analyze, categorize, and document data sources and elements
• Agile development experience required, must be comfortable working with a distributed team

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, CIS
• 5 years of Data Engineering Experience or equivalent experience

Qualifications:

• Five (5) years of experience in a senior data engineering role of crafting, implementing, and supporting large, highly scalable distributed backend systems
• Expert experience with Java or equivalent objected-oriented languages
• Experience integrating mobile devices to REST API interfaces
• Ability to design and establish coding patterns/standards across multiple code repositories
• Mentor team members on writing code that is efficient, maintainable, and testable
• Proven track record re-architecting an expansive code base while transitioning technologies or frameworks
• Experience managing and ingesting data from upstream sources into Snowflake data warehouse
• Meaningful experience with NoSQL and big data technologies like Cassandra, Solr, Kafka and Hadoop
• Strong experience with container orchestration frameworks (e.g., Elastic Kubernetes) preferred
• Shown grasp of multi-threaded programming concepts
• Required languages:  Java, TypeScript, Unix Scripting, CSS, HTML, XML
• Basic understanding of cellular functionality including location services and radio layers (2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G)
• Experience with any industry-standard tool for Source Control and Project Management
• Experience with data visualization and/or dashboard development
• Very strong written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrates critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills, and ability to think creatively
• Exhibits a sense of ownership, urgency, accountability, and drive to learn new technologies
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment