Lead Big Data Engineer

Our client located in Atlanta, GA is currently seeking a Lead Big Data Engineer to join their team.

Responsibilities and Duties include:

- Design and implement Big Data systems such as petabyte scale warehouses, batch and stream processing and analytics runtimes, or large-scale storage
- Design and implement caching system based on Couchbase
- Design and implement migration strategies for Legacy systems
- Diagnose and produce systems solutions to Big Data problems, such as scalability to thousands of processing units, load balancing or fast analytics on petabytes of data
- Innovate in the Big Data space. Lead, don't follow
- Contribute to our team's growing set of development platforms, tools, and processes

Skills & Requirements

- BS or equivalent in computer science or related disciplines
- Experience with agile development processes
- Proficient in conducting and communicating an evaluation and selection process
- 5+ years developing applications in Java/J2EE and utilizing Java/J2EE platform technologies
- Strong software development skills (version control, code review, testing, release, monitoring, debugging)
- Experience working on very large-scale data warehouses, transformation/analytics or storage systems
- In-depth technical understanding of NOSQL technologies as well as practical experience with at least two flavors of NOSQL
- Distributed and cloud computing environment experience
- Experience with ETL and Analytics processing using Pentaho
- Experience with JSR-107 (Java Caching) a plus
- Experience with Hortonworks is a plus
- Experience with Cloudera is a plus
- Experience with Couchbase is a plus
- Experience with SolrCloud is a plus
- Experience with indexing, searching, and analytics over large data sets
- Experience developing applications in Java and utilizing Java platform technologies
- Experience with Java web services including JAX-WS including WSDL driven and Java driven development as well as message handlers
- Understanding of XML, JSON, JAXB
- Strong knowledge of Unix Shell Scripting
- Passionate, self-driven

For immediate consideration, please forward all resumes to (see below) or call.

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