Big Data Engineer with Hadoop

ALTEN Romania, part of the international ALTEN Group - with a unique position as Leader in IT & Engineering Consulting, provides support for its clients’ development strategies in the fields of innovation, R&D, and IT systems since 1996. The company comprises 2 divisions specialized in its core capabilities: ENGINEERING and IT. These two divisions are: ALTEN TECHNO and ALTEN KEPLER.

SUMMARY

Provide and operate IT infrastructure and application services related to VF European Local Markets for Teradata, Vantage, and Aster systems.

Constantly optimize Teradata, Vantage, and Aster infrastructure/application whilst delivering cost-efficient services of high quality.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Design, develop, construct, install, test, and maintain the complete data management & processing systems
• Contribute to the continuous optimization of the Big Data Platform and related infrastructure, network, database, and middleware capabilities to support and enable the development and operations of Data modules and solutions
• Discover opportunities for data acquisitions and explore new ways of using existing data
• Contribute to improving data quality, reliability & efficiency of the whole system
• Create data models to reduce system complexity and hence increase efficiency & reduce cost
• Administer the monitoring, maintaining, and supporting the operational capacity, availability, and performance of the Big Data Platform solutions against SLAs from a level two and level three support perspective
• Contribute in technical discussions with Teradata Platform service providers (on-/ off-prem) to understand the forecast and right-sizing impacts for short-, mid-and long-term capacity and performance requirements, iterating regularly

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience: 

• Experience with Hadoop Platform & Ecosystem at Enterprise scale
• Proven experience with HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, Analytical techniques/models incl Machine Learning, Data Modelling, and Visualisation
• At least two or more Analytical programming and scripting languages, . SQL, Python, Linux, Java
• Data-Driven evidenced through strong creativity, analysis, and problem-solving skills. Utilize Data/Visualisation techniques to illustrate issues and challenges

Must have technical/professional qualifications: 

• Excellent knowledge in administration of Big Data systems in a production environment
• Cloudera Certified Hadoop Administrator/Developer or comparable qualifications 
• Experience working closely in a team/squad/tribe using agile methodologies Scrum and/or Kanban, practicing DevOps and Continuous Delivery / Integration

What we offer:

• Working in a growing company with top professionals
• Recognition of value within a highly professional work environment
• Premium Plus health package & Meal tickets
• Package for gym memberships
• Excellent opportunity to grow in a dynamic company with international projects for companies in FORTUNE 500