Senior Data Engineer
Plano, TX

Job Description

Job FamilyData Engineering

Job Description SummaryThis is a senior level role, responsible for the vision, deployment and administration of Hadoop enabled infrastructure as a core service to all business functions.Job Description

Responsibilities

* Administer on premise and cloud based Hadoop clusters.
* Make information available to large scale, next generation, predictive analytics applications.
* Assist in selection and integration of big data tools/frameworks required to provide requested capabilities.
* Build, implement and support the data infrastructure; ingest and transform data (ETL/ELT process).
* May supervisor team projects and serves as a liaison with the PMO.

Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field
* Five years of collective experience in data engineering, data analysis, data warehousing or data transformation, in a similarly sized organization.
* Two years of experience architecting, building and administering large-scale distributed applications using Hadoop and/or Linux systems.
* Two years of ETL experience with Hive/Impala - Hue, ETL and advanced SQL programming.
* In-depth understanding of the Hadoop eco-system (e.g. HDFS, MapReduce, HBase, Pig, Scoop, Spark, Hive)
* In-depth understanding of data warehousing and BI concepts, including hands on experience building ETL/ELT data pipelines.
* Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus.
* The ability to work within a team environment.
* Problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

* Master's degree in a related field.
* Cloudera Administrator certification.

Working Conditions

* Office environment.

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