Senior Big Data Engineer (Scala) (offline)

As a Senior Big Data Engineer (Scala), you will live on the front lines of the products we create, and build features used by millions of people every day.

Our customer is one of the biggest multi-brand online retailers in the UK. It's our long-playing customer and now they aim to enhance the use of its existing data by improving its storage capabilities and accessibility. The goal of the project is to build a system from the scratch based on Data Lake architecture with Query Layer which provides the ability for multiple data consumer systems to query data from the lake. Additional challenge in Query Layer design is to make it auto-scalable to handle peaks in demand with high uptime percentage as for HA characteristic.

PROJECT TECHNOLOGIES AND TOOLS
- AWS Services - EMR, S3, Lambda, EC2, RDS, CloudFormation, etc
- Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP)
- Hive
- Spark, Spark Streaming
- Yarn
- Apache Knox
- Kafka
- Scala as programming language

REQUIREMENTS
- 3+ years of experience with Big Data stack: Spark, Hive, HDFS
- Basic Scala knowledge
- Experience with AWS Cloud services
- Knowledge of Linux will be a plus
- Knowledge of scripting will be a plus
- Excellent communication skills, team player
- Good spoken and written English

WE OFFER
Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
Individual career path in engineering
Social package - medical insurance, sports
Compensation for sick lists and regular vacations
English classes with certified English teachers
Flexible work hours