Big Data Developer

Job Title:

Big Data (Application) Developer

Location:

Petersfield (UK)

Salary plus Benefits:

circa £40,000

25 days holiday, rising by a day for each completed calendar year of service to a maximum of 30 days, free Gym membership, contributory pension scheme

Contract Type:

Permanent- Fulltime

Application by:

ASAP

Objective of Job Role:

A Big Data System Application Developer is required to join the client’s development team to enhance and improve its revenue and risk management user-interfaces and APIs.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

The candidate must be able to:

• Create, maintain and test big data applications using Apache Kafka streams, Spark, Hive and Apache Druid.
• Integrate solutions with current web and non-web products
• Gather and refine requirements from subject matter experts and stakeholders
• Create design specifications and documentation to support development

General Requirements:

• At least 3 years’ experience developing applications for big data platforms
• Has up-to-date knowledge and hands-on experience of latest big data technologies, especially in data stream processing
• Good team member and strong communicator
• Proactive and self-motivated
• Creative and problem solving

Technical skills:

• Essential: Apache Kafka, Kafka streams, Scala
• Highly Desirable: Apache Druid, Apache Hadoop (Hive, HDFS), SparkSQL, Java
• Desirable: Parallel programming technique, Microservices technique, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, Machine Learning, Tensorflow, C++
• Useful: CI/CD, NoSQL databases, ETL, Prometheus, Python
• Bonus: Confluence, JIRA, Git source control

Qualifications:

• Computer Science / Information Technology (or related) degree and/or HND
• Specific big data application development modules and course certifications an advantage

Other info:

The client would consider applications from recent graduates with relevant degree-level qualifications where they have studied and used at least some of the technologies needed in the role.