Bigdata Engineer

Position Details

Job Title: Bigdata Engineer

Location: Tampa, FL

Duration: 12+ Months Contract to hire

Job Responsibilities

Principal Responsibilities

• Design interfaces to the data warehouses/data storages and machine learning/Big Data
• applications using open source tools such as Scala, Java, Python, Perl and shell scripting.
• Design and create data pipelines to maintain stable dataflow to the machine learning models –
• both in batch mode and near real-time mode.
• Interface with Engineering/Operations/System Admin/Data Scientist teams to ensure data
• pipelines and processes fit within the production framework.
• Ensure that tools and environments adhere to strict security protocols.
• Deploy the machine learning model and serve its outputs as RESTful API calls.
• Understand the business needs in close collaborations with subject matter experts (SMEs)
• and Data Scientists to do efficient feature engineering for machine learning models.
• Maintain the code and libraries in code repository.
• Work with system administration team to proactively resolve issues/install tools and libraries
• on the AWS platform.
• Research and come up with architecture and solutions most appropriate for problems at hand.
• Maintain and improve tools to assist Analytics in ETL, retrospective testing, efficiency,
• repeatability, and R&D.
• Lead by example regarding software best practices, including code style and architecture,
• documentation, source control, and testing.
• Support the Chief Data Scientist/Data Scientists/Big Data Engineers in creating new and novel
• approaches to solve challenging problems using Machine Learning, Big Data and Cloud
• technologies.
• Handle ADHOC requirements to create reports for the end users.

Required Skills

• Strong skills with Apache Spark (Spark SQL) and SCALA with at least 2+ years of experience.
• Understanding of AWS Big Data components and tools.
• Strong Java skills with experience in web services and web development is required.
• Hands on experience with model deployment.
• Hands on experience in application deployment on Docker and/or Kubernetes or other similar technology.
• Linux scripting is a plus.
• Fundamental understanding of AWS cloud components.
• 2+ years of experience in data ingesting, cleansing/processing, storing and querying large datasets
• 2+ years of experience in engineering large-scale data solutions with Java/Tomcat/ SQL/Linux
• Experience working in a data intensive role including the extraction of data (db/web/api/etc.), transformation and loading (ETL)
• Exposure with structured and/or unstructured data contents
• Experience with data cleansing/preparation on Hadoop/Apache Spark Ecosystem – MapReduce/Hive/HBase/Spark SQL
• Experience with distributed streaming tools like Apache KAFKA.
• Experience with multiple file formats (Parquet, Avro, OCR)
• Knowledge in AGILE development cycle.
• Efficient coding skills to enhance the performance/cost savings of the job running on AWS platform.
• Experience in building stable, scalable, and high-speed live streams of data and serving web platforms
• Enthusiastic self-starter with ability to work in a team environment.
• Graduate (MS) or Undergraduate degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/relevant field

Nice to have

• Strong Software development experience
• Machine Learning model deployment experience
• Ability to write custom Map/Reduce programs to clean/prepare complex data
• Familiarity with Streaming data processing - Experience with distributed real time computation system like Apache STORM/Apache Spark Streaming.

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