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VENDOR NOTES:
We still need Big Data Engineers with strong Azure experience. We have no external competition on this opening and have placed this position the last two times it was open.
A Big Data Engineer that’s strong in Spark and has good experience with Azure WILL WIN! At the moment, I only have one candidate going through an internal technical screening.
Location: Eden Prairie, MN (remote to start) Role: Azure Data Engineer Duration: 6 month contract-to-hire Visa Restrictions: Can only consider candidates who don’t require sponsorship at this time (USC, GC, GC-EAD, H4, TN) Subvending: This is fine but they must be able to convert full-time eventually Top Requirements: • Azure • SQL • Data warehousing • Data engineering (Big Data) • Spark • Working w/ streams
Req. Skills • Azure • SQL • Data warehousing • Data engineering (Big Data) • Spark • Working w/ streams
Pref. Skills • Kafka
Required: • BS / BA in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience • 8+ years of software product development experience working on commercially available software and / or healthcare platforms • 6+ months of experience developing solutions hosted within public cloud providers such as Azure and AWS or private cloud/container based systems using Mesos, Kubernetes/OpenShift Java/Scala development experience • Experience with Big Data technologies like HDFS, Hive, Spark, Kafka • Experience with Kubernetes, Big Data technologies like Spark, Hbase, MapReduce, Storm, Flume, Sqoop, Pig, Apache Drill, Oozie, Zeppelin • Experience managing, leading, and / or mentoring teams in using Big Data technologies • Experience in using modern software engineering and product development tools including Agile / SAFE, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps etc. • Proven track record of acting as an advocate for driving new technology across the organization via the creation of communities and publishing SDK / libraries for reuse across the organization • Strong experience of operating in a quickly changing environment and driving technological innovation to meet business requirement • Proven track record of building relationships across cross-functional teams
Preferred: • Experience building Big Data solutions on public cloud (Azure) • Experience building data pipelines with Kafka and Kafka Streams • Experience developing Java RESTful Services using SpringBoot • Good understanding of Microservices architecture • Experience with Automation Frameworks – Selenium WebDriver, Restassured, SOAP UI • Ability to establish repeatable processes, best practices and implement version control software in a Cloud team environment • Experience of developing cloud based API gateways would be highly desirable • Experience / exposure to API integration frameworks • Experience in the healthcare industry
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