Data Head - IT

Client is seeking an entrepreneurial individual to lead the Data vertical

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Must have good programming experience in Scala

- Must have good experience in distributed processing frameworks like Spark

- Good to know other languages like Java/Python

- Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms

- Should be able to think in a functional-programming style

- Good to have experience in streaming systems like Spark streaming and Storm

- Expertise in big data infrastructure, distributed systems, data modeling, query processing and relational

- Experience in technologies like SQL and NoSQL data stores

- Takes ownership of all technical aspects of software development for assigned projects

- Able to work with polyglot architecture on terabytes of data

- To enjoy being challenged and to solve complex problems at scale on a daily basis

- Writes code and unit tests, works on API specs, automation, and conducts code reviews & testing (using ScalaTest)

- Good knowledge of tools like gradle/maven, Intellij IDEA, ScalaTest, ScalaCheck etc.

- Should have extensive experience with capturing, managing and processing Big Data (terabytes of data captured through web logs, documents, clickstreams, social networks etc.)

- Fluent with Hadoop/Hive/Spark/Storm

- Good to have experience with other tools we use: Kafka, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Couchbase, ArangoDB, Druid, HBase or you really want to learn about them

- Should value simple solutions, write concise code, and believe in DevOps

- Should have hands-on experience in tuning software for maximum performance out of the given hardware.