Job Description :
Position: Big Data Engineer w/ Scala (senior level)
Term: Contract-1 year+ or full time from day 1
Customer Location: Cupertino, CA-onsite at end client location-Apple (no remote work)
Summary:
On this project you will be working on the bleeding-edge of Big Data technology to develop high performance data analytics platform, which handles petabytes datasets. We are looking for an enthusiastic and technology-proficient Big Data Engineer, who is eager to participate in design and implementation of a top-notch Big Data solution to be deployed at massive scale.
Responsibilities:
Participate in design and development of Big Data analytical applications
Design, support and continuously enhance the project code base, continuous integration pipeline, etc.
Write complex ETL processes and frameworks for analytics and data management
Implement large-scale near real-time streaming data processing pipelines
Work inside the team of industry experts on the cutting edge Big Data technologies to develop solutions for deployment at massive scale
Requirements:
Strong knowledge of Scala
In-depth knowledge of Hadoop and Spark, experience with data mining and stream processing technologies (Kafka, Spark Streaming, Akka Streams)
Understanding of the best practices in data quality and quality engineering
Experience with version control systems, Git in particular
Desire and ability for quick learning of new tools and technologies
What will be a plus:
Knowledge of Unix-based operating systems (bash/ssh/ps/grep etc
Experience with Github-based development processes
Experience with JVM build systems (SBT, Maven, Gradle