Senior Data Engineer

Hello There,

My name is Himanshu Sharma , and I serve as the Recruitment Lead at Kanak-IT INC. I am reaching out to share an excellent career opportunity for the role of Senior Data Engineer with our esteemed client. If you are interested then please share your updated resume at [email protected] .

Job Description

Position : Senior Data Engineer

Location : Arlington, VA Hybrid (Need local candidates only within 30-40 miles)

Duration : 6 months contract with possible extension

Interview : 2 nd round will be onsite

* Must complete a Glider test *

Must have:

• Spark (advance/expert), Hadoop platform & tools (Hive, Impala, Nifi, Oozie, Scoop)
• Databricks
• Python, SQL

Ideal Candidate Qualifications:

• 5+ years of full stack engineering experience in an agile production environment
• Experience leading the design and implementation of large, complex features in full-stack applications
• Ability to easily move between business, data management, and technical teams; ability to quickly intuit the business use case and identify technical solutions to enable it
• Experience leveraging open-source tools, predictive analytics, machine learning, Advanced Statistics, and other data techniques to perform analyses
• High proficiency in using Python or Scala, Spark, Hadoop platforms & tools (Hive, Impala, Airflow, NiFi, Scoop), SQL to build Big Data products & platforms
• Experience in building and deploying production-level data-driven applications and data processing workflows/pipelines and/or implementing machine learning systems at scale in Java, Scala, or Python and deliver analytics involving all phases like data ingestion, feature engineering, modeling, tuning, evaluating, monitoring, and presenting
• Experience coaching and mentoring junior teammates
• Experience leading a large technical effort that spans multiple people and teams
• Proficiency with Java/Spring Boot, .NET/C#, React, Redux, Typescript, and SQL Server or other object-oriented languages, front-end frameworks, and/or relational database technologies
• Strong technologist with proven track record of learning new technologies and frameworks
• Customer-centric development approach
• Passion for analytical / quantitative problem solving
• Experience identifying and implementing technical improvements to development processes
• Collaboration skills with experience working with people across roles and geographies
• Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams
• Superior academic record with a degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills