Big Data Production Support (Closed)

SkillStorm is seeking a Big Data Production Support Specialist for our client in Addison, TX. Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm's W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

Required Skills

• Experience with production support processes including Oncall Management, Defect Management, Incident Management, Issue reporting and management
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Kafka, Streaming and Hadoop ecosystem
• Strong understanding of OOP fundamentals in either Java or Python
• Experience managing and leading Agile development teams in an Agile environment
• Drive and maintain a culture of quality, innovation and experimentation
• Collaborate with product teams, data analysts and data scientists to design and build data-forward solutions
• Provide the prescriptive point-solution architectures and guide the descriptive architectures within assigned modules. Accountable for the availability, stability, scalability, security, and recoverability enabled by the designs
• Own technical decisions for the solution and application developers in the creation of architectural decisions and artifacts. Ability to clearly communicate with team & stakeholders
• Experience working on Agile teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Desired Skills
• Must have worked in production support role, supporting critical 24/7 platforms
• Extensive hands on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions in Big Data and Streaming Platforms using Kafka and Spark. Knowledge of processing and deployment technologies such YARN, Linux and Containers
• Experience programming and building full stack solutions utilizing distributed computing
• Hands on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining nRT software frameworks using, Spark, Hadoop MR, Kafka, Java/Scala/Python etc.
• Experience building real-time Scoring and Monitoring pipeline is a plus
• Experience in developing integration on Hadoop cluster with Spark framework for deploying runtime

Justification

• This is a Big Data Streaming Production Support role supporting a new initiative at Client in Addison, TX. The Platform Engineering team will be building a single unified FOSS based ML/AI Platform for Consumer, Small Business, Wealth Management and Fraud use cases and partners. Candidate must possess a passion for producing high quality software and solutions, be ready to jump in and solve complex problems, and interact with users to understand the requirements and deliver solutions as a design-build-run engineer.

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