Senior Hadoop Architect

First IT Solutions

Must have technical competency : Strong hands-on knowledge in

Core Java, J2EE, JDBC, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Hadoop Distributed File Systems : HDFS Hadoop Map Reduce, Parallel Processing, Stream Processing, Flume, Splunk Architectural Patterns

Analytical Tools : SAS, SPSS, R, Mahout

Hands-on experience with BI tools and reporting software ( e.g. Microstrategy, Cognos, Pentaho ) Hands-on experience with the Hadoop stack (e.g. MapReduce, Sqoop, Pig, Hive, Hbase, Flume ) Hands-on experience with related/complementary open source software platforms and languages ( e.g. Java, Linux, Apache, Perl/Python/PHP, Chef ) Hands-on experience with ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) tools ( e.g Informatica, Talend, Pentaho ) Hands-on experience with any 1 of analytical tools, languages, or libraries (e.g. SAS, SPSS, R, Mahout) Hands-on experience with "productionalizing" Hadoop applications ( e.g. administration, configuration management, monitoring, debugging, and performance tuning ) Ability to critically evaluate multiple architecture options Strong technical documentation skills Should know how to translate business requirements into analytical requirements

Required Skill Set :

Strong business development focus with an opportunistic attitude Responsible for talent management and recruiting to grow, at the same time, infusing the right “analytics-driven” culture

Knowledge in any one of the following :

Previous experience with high-scale or distributed RDBMS ( Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum, Aster Data, Vertica ) Knowledge of cloud computing infrastructure ( e.g. Amazon Web Services EC2, Elastic MapReduce ) and considerations for scalable, distributed systems Knowledge of NoSQL platforms ( e.g. key-value stores, graph databases, RDF triple stores )

Experience in applying Big Data technology to any of the following use cases will be a definite plus :

Unstructured Search

Telematics Fraud Detection Call Centre Analytics Social Media Analytics

Desired Hands-on Experience RangeMinimum 4+ years and ideally 8+ years’ experience in industries, preferably insurance, banking, financial services, healthcare, or retail.

Bachelors/Masters/PhD

Job Status: Permanent

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