Job Description :
Job Title: Senior Java Developer
Location: McLean, VA 22102
Duration: 4 months contract to hire
Job Description:
You'll be part of an Agile team dedicated to breaking the norm and pushing the limits of continuous improvement and innovation. You will participate in detailed technical design, development and implementation of applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. Working within an Agile environment, you will provide input into architectural design decisions, develop code to meet story acceptance criteria, and ensure that the applications we build are always available to our customers. You'll have the opportunity to mentor other engineers and develop your technical knowledge and skills to keep your mind and our business on the cutting edge of technology. We have seas of big data and rivers of fast data.
Who you are:
You yearn to be part of cutting edge, high profile projects and are motivated by delivering world-class solutions on an aggressive schedule
Someone who is not intimidated by challenges; thrives even under pressure; is passionate about their craft; and hyper focused on delivering exceptional results
You love to learn new technologies and mentor junior engineers to raise the bar on your team
It would be awesome if you have a robust portfolio on Github and / or open source contributions you are proud to share
Passionate about intuitive and engaging user interfaces, as well as new/emerging concepts and techniques.
The Job:
Collaborating as part of a cross-functional Agile team to create and enhance software that enables state of the art, next generation Big Data & Fast Data applications
Building efficient storage for structured and unstructured data
Developing and deploying distributed computing Big Data applications using Open Source frameworks like Apache Spark, Apex, Flink, Nifi, Storm and Kafka on AWS Cloud
Utilizing programming languages like Java, Scala, Python and Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases and Cloud based data warehousing services such as Redshift
Utilizing Hadoop modules such as YARN & MapReduce, and related Apache projects such as Hive, Hbase, Pig, and Cassandra
Leveraging DevOps techniques and practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, Build Automation and Test Driven Development to enable the rapid delivery of working code utilizing tools like Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Chef, Terraform, Ruby, Git and Docker
Performing unit tests and conducting reviews with other team members to make sure your code is rigorously designed, elegantly coded, and effectively tuned for performance
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
At least 5 years of professional work experience in data warehousing and data analytics
At least 4 years of experience in open source programming languages for data analysis
At least 3 years of Java development for modern data engineering
At least 3 years of data modeling development
At least 1 year of experience working with cloud data capabilities
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's Degree or PhD
5+ years Java development experience
4+ years of experience in Python, Scala, or R for large scale data analysis
4+ years' experience with Relational Database Systems and SQL (PostgreSQL or Redshift)
4+ years of UNIX/Linux experience
2+ years of Agile engineering experience
2+ years of experience with the Hadoop Stack
2+ years of experience with Cloud computing (AWS)
1+ years of experience with supervised machine learning