Hadoop Expert (Big Data Engineer/Big Data Architect) Job in Pakistan
Interactive Group of Companies , Pakistan Gallery Job

1. Main Functions & Responsibilities (duties to be performed by this position)

General (Architect)

• Finding the best technical solution amongst various possible options in order to solve business problems or meet business requirements
• Selecting solution/project technology stack
• Specify the structure, characteristics, behavior and related aspects of the technology solution to project stakeholders or for project proposals
• Lead solution design activities and support end-to-end project/product life cycle
• Manage architectural design and lead key decision making to ensure smooth integration of bespoke systems and successful delivery of all projects
• Undertake solution sizing, capacity planning, effort estimations, performance benchmarking, high availability and business continuity assurance
• Engage with clients to understand business requirements and propose solutions to fulfill their business objectives

General (Engineer and Architect)

• Providing specifications according to which the solution is defined, managed, developed and delivered
• Defining features, phases, integrations and solution requirements
• Conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies, to recommend cost-effective solutions.
• Develop solution design and project proposal presentations, present solution design and proposals to clients in order to satisfy client requirements
• Act as a bridge between the development team and clients w.r.t. technical requirements, align solution throughout the project lifecycle in coordination with project managers

Specific (Engineer and Architect)

• Selecting and integrating any big data tools and frameworks required to provide required capabilities in technical solutions
• Responsible for solution design and development in Hadoop environment for large-scale data analysis (Peta Byte scale)
• Design infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a variety of data sources
• Collecting, parsing, managing, analyzing and visualizing large sets of data
• Implementing ETL process, including preprocessing using relevant technologies
• Develop solutions based on large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Develop code for map, reduce and shuffle, etc. steps to process large data sets in Hadoop ecosystem
• Undertake optimization of code and Hadoop clusters to improve processing, querying and analysis performance
• Monitoring performance and advising any necessary infrastructure changes
• Collaborate with other development and research teams
• Installation, configuration and management of Hadoop clusters
• Develop prototypes, proof of concepts for the designed solutions
• Undertake comparative analysis of designed solutions with alternative designs

Any other task assigned by the Supervisor

• Minimum 03 years of experience in software engineering/development
• Minimum 02 years of development experience in big data analytics
  • Minimum 02 years of design and architecture experience in big data systems (for Architect role only)
• Hands-on experience with Hadoop and technologies in the Hadoop ecosystem.
• Experience in pre-processing data and designing efficient ETL workflows in Hadoop ecosystem
• Prior experience of working with large-scale data infrastructures.
• Experience with non-relational and relational databases
• Ability to independently undertake design and development of Hadoop clusters.
• Experience with Hadoop ecosystem including MapReduce, HDFS, Hive, Spark, Pig, Impala, etc.
• Experience with Cloudera/MapR/HortonWorks will be considered a plus
• Experience in designing Hadoop clusters for specific big data analytics of real-world data will be considered a big plus
• Proficient understanding of distributed computing principles
• Ability to design solutions independently based on high-level architecture.
• Installation, configuration and management of Hadoop clusters
• Knowledge of ETL techniques and frameworks e.g. Flume
• Collecting, parsing, managing, analyzing and visualizing large sets of data
• Should be able to develop prototypes and proof of concepts for the designed solutions
• Should have extensive knowledge in different programming languages and computing environments e.g. Java, C++, PHP, Ruby, Python and/or R, Linux, Cloud environments