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Position Details Job order - J0217-1556 - Contract Title Senior Big Data Engineer Category Analytics and Emerging Digital Technologies City Hartford, Connecticut, United States Job Description Senior Big Data Engineer Position Description CGI is seeking to hire a Senior Big Data Engineer in Hartford CT. As a strategic and tactical leader, this individual impacts multiple, technically complex, mission-critical, and/or high-profile initiatives simultaneously and must possess executive leadership in combination with an extensive deep technical understanding of Data Architecture, Big Data, Application Databases, and Infrastructure Design. Your future duties and responsibilities • Lead Application Big Data Platform containing application generated data • Key partner with Business Analytics team on advance analytics activities • Be hands-on and lead teams • Hands on Development • Assesses readiness of technical solutions and hardware including systems, tools, technologies, and processes • Recommends, and enforces data and technical solutions, standards, and governance for the program/project and other technical measures • Acts as strategic leader with ability to influence, collaborate and deploy innovative technology solutions • Evaluate and ability to influence key technologies include: Data Lake Architecture, Integration Services, and Application Database Services • Managing projects including planning, design, build, test, and deployment • Responsible for identifying technical trend opportunities Required qualifications to be successful in this role • 5+ years - Database Design (MPP and Transactional) such as SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 • 2+ years of Enterprise Data Architecture, Development, and Data management experience • Knowledge of MDM, Big Data, Reference Data, Data Integration, Metadata, and Data Standards • Excellent knowledge of Hadoop (Cloudera), EMR, DynamoDB (Cassandra), or similar solution • Experience in Big Data (Hadoop stack preferred) • Experience with Data Architecture: application, reporting frameworks, modeling, processing, and availability and scalability • Understanding of advanced architectural principles of Enterprise Data Management including master data management, modeling and architectural principles applied to Application Databases • Strong analysis and troubleshooting skills and experience Preferred Qualifications: • Strong knowledge of Linux system monitoring and analysis • Expert knowledge of Hadoop 1 and 2 architectures and administration and support • Expert knowledge in Map-Reduce, Cascading, HBase, HDFS, Pig, Hive, and Spark • Good understanding of machine learning frameworks such as Spark MLib, Apache Mahout or equivalent • Strong core Java or Scala development experience and basic coding/scripting ability in Python, Perl, and/or Ruby • Networking experience (DNS, TCP/IP) • Extensive Database experience (MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle) • Exposure to Virtualization (VMware, Xen, and Hypervisor) Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Science/Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field preferred Build your career with us. It is an extraordinary time to be in business. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, CGI is at the center of this change—supporting our clients’ digital journeys and offering our professionals exciting career opportunities. At CGI, our success comes from the talent and commitment of our professionals. As one team, we share the challenges and rewards that come from growing our company, which reinforces our culture of ownership. All of our professionals benefit from the value we collectively create. Be part of building one of the largest independent technology and business services firms in the world. Learn more about CGI at www.cgi.com. No unsolicited agency referrals please. CGI is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, gender Identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, or other status protected by law. CGI will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with CGI’s legal duty to furnish information. Skills Reference 525197 Click here to apply