Practice Director - Big Data Analytics & Information Management - Retail/CPG

- Competency development on Big data and related tools & technology

- Frameworks, Solution & Service definition around Big data

- Pre-sales- custom solutioning using the Big data tools & technology

- Participate & lead customer presentations

- Solution Consulting around Big data

- Work with Sales teams in developing GTM content

- Work with delivery teams for staffing & fulfillment needs

- Liaison with Vendors & Industry leaders in acquiring best practices & competencies

- 15 + Years in IT with at least 2 years in Big data

- Experience knowledge with one or multiple tools like; Apache/ Cloudera/ Horton Works/Intel editions of Hadoop and its associated eco systems (tools; Hbase, Hive, Pig, Mahout, ZooKeeper etc.).

- Experience and knowledge in search tools Solr and integration frameworks like Mule will be advantage

- Experience in data management techniques like; Harmonization, integration, cleansing & standardization will be added advantage.

- Experience in defining business & technology solutions & frameworks with big data tools & technology

- Hands on experience in sizing Hadoop clusters, installation configurations and adopting best practices

- Knowledge on Java, J2EE, JSON, Pig, Python will be added advantage

- Knowledge of implementing business solutions like pricing, demand signal repository, assortment planning, e-comm, recommendation engine etc. will be added advantage

- Knowledge of advance analytics & statistics model will be added advantage

- Domain knowledge - Retail & CPG

- Flexibility for short travels