Big Data Architect - IT

Experience: 12 - 16 Years

Responsibilities:

- Demonstrate thought leadership through whitepapers, blogs, wiki, speaking opportunities and actively participating in technology forums.

- Research new technologies/trends and test and prove concepts/ evaluate tools through rapid prototyping.

- Proactively drive new approaches and techniques for the Big Data platform as well as propose improvements in software development practices.

- Participate in consultative projects/workshops to.

- Define data architecture roadmaps for next generation Big Data Analytics solutions for our clients.

- Assess and define strategic opportunities to achieve new business capabilities using Big Data and/or traditional tools and technologies.

- Participate in vendor landscape and technology assessments.

- Project/delivery support through architecture/ technical design guidance and review.

- Pre-sales support for new opportunities.

Experience:

- 12+ years of experience with degree in Computer science or Mathematics and Statistics.

- Clearly communicate ideas, thought process, different alternatives for design and architecture (both Oral and written communication).

- At least 4 years of Experience in

- building and deploying large scale and complex data processing pipelines in a production environment.

- building real-time aggregations using Spark streaming, kafka, storm etc.

- working on different distributions systems like Horton, Cloudera etc.

- NoSQL databases, columnar databases etc.,

- programming and scripting (Java, Python, R, UNIX shell scripts).

Plus/bonus:

- Knowledge of software best practices, like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI).

- Good to have experience in working on SaaS (Software as a service) product in cloud.

- Knowledge of software development methodologies including agile, TDD, CI/CD will be a plus.