Senior Hadoop Designer/Developer

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About The Job

Our client has a requirement for Hadoop Designer/Developer for a 3 month contract opportunity. The position is located in Toronto.

What makes this Special
Our client has a prestigious reputation and excellent work environment. This position offers an opportunity for personal learning and to contribute to important initiatives that make a difference. Our client is actively screening resumes and scheduling interviews to fill this position, so let one our professional resource managers represent you to the client, promote your skills, and help you prepare

Role
We are looking for a 3 month contract with a specialized experience as Hadoop Technologist / Designer / Developer.

Responsibilities

• Hadoop Technologist will be responsible for designing and implementation of complete Hadoop solutions, including data acquisition, storage, transformation, and analysis and a solid understanding of infrastructure planning, scaling, and administration considerations that are unique to Hadoop.
• We are looking for candidates who have a broad set of technology skills across these areas and who can demonstrate an ability to apply Hadoop solutions to big data problems and learn quickly as the platform grows.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of hand-on experience programming on Hadoop
• Minimum of 4 years systems development and implementation experience
• Experience with the following tasks in the context of Hadoop:
• Implementation of ETL applications
• Implementation of reporting applications
• Application/implementation of custom analytics
• Administration of relational databases
• Data migration from existing data stores
• Infrastructure and storage design
• Developing capacity plans for new and existing systems

Preferred Skills

• Hands-on experience with the Hadoop stack (e.g. MapReduce, Sqoop, Pig, Hive, Hbase, Flume)
•  Hands-on experience with related/complementary open source software platforms and languages (e.g. Java, Linux, Apache, Perl/Python/PHP, Chef)
• Hands-on experience with ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) tools (e.g Informatica, Talend, Pentaho)
• Hands-on experience with BI tools and reporting software (e.g. Microstrategy, Cognos, Pentaho)
• Hands-on experience with analytical tools, languages, or libraries (e.g. SAS, SPSS, R, Mahout)
• Hands-on experience with "productionalizing" Hadoop applications (e.g. administration, configuration management, monitoring, debugging, and performance tuning)
• Well versed in installing & managing Cloudera distribution of Hadoop (CDH3, CDH4, Cloudera manager, MapR, Hortonworks etc.)
• Hands-on experience with Hadoop based monitoring tools (NagiOS, Ganglia etc.)
• Previous experience with high-scale or distributed RDBMS (Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum, Aster Data, Vertica)
• Knowledge of cloud computing infrastructure (e.g. Amazon Web Services EC2, Elastic MapReduce) and considerations for scalable, distributed systems
• Knowledge of NoSQL platforms (e.g. key-value stores, graph databases, RDF triple stores) Knowledge of many of the Corporate areas and experience in big financial institutions would be an asset and; Finance, Audit, Compliance, Legal, Risk Management, Marketing, Trade Finance, Treasury, Data Warehousing, and Business Intelligence.

Professional Skills Requirements

• Self-starter, with a keen interest in technology and highly motivated towards success
• Must be proactive and be prepared to address meetings
• Must show initiative and desire to learn business subjects
• Able to work independently and provide updates to management
• Strong analytical and problem solving capabilities
• Excellent problem solving skills; proven teamwork and communication skills

 Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Technical Science

How to Apply

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