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Software Staff Engineer

Experian

Software Staff Engineer

Allen, TX
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    As a Software Staff Engineer you will play a critical role in helping internal users with optimization of analytical jobs, automation and scheduling of process flows, monitoring of AWS and platform issues. You will be part of the North America DA Analytics team and responsible for execution of day-to-day activities with cross-functional stakeholders across the organization. You will be working on new and exciting product offerings on Experian Ascend and AIS platforms.

    • Provide subject matter expertise in technologies such as: AWS, Big Data Applications, Hadoop, HDFS, HIVE, Oracle, Mysql, Spark, R, H20, Python, Unix, Linux, Windows, Jenkins, Github and Ansible
    • Business Requirement Analysis, Project Design and Development of Machine Learning and AI based applications and help Data scientists and analysts.
    • Building data analytics platforms and knowledge about Anaconda, python and R modules and working artifactory experience to manage open-source modules.
    • Install, configure, deploy, and administer all Hadoop components associated with Cloudera distribution on AWS Cloud Platform and EMR clusters.
    • Building automated and scheduled pipelines for analytical processes. Airflow scheduler DAGS for data-pipeline and models using EMR, Athena and Glue.
    • Analyze and optimize generated queries and system performance. Monitor scheduled job performance.
    • Develop ways to improve and automate the day-to-day operations of the Linux and Unix environment on AWS Cloud platform, this includes scripting and coding as required.
    • Research and implement performance tuning and enhancements to existing and newly developed systems to gain the most performance from existing hardware.
    • Monitor/Maintenance of Existing Big data Hadoop Applications/ Cloud Application for stability and availability
    • Troubleshoot environment and production job issues on time with proper resolution within timelines.
    • Analyze system failures, identifying root causes, and recommended   course   of   actions.
    • Backup strategies and take up to date system backups of metadata and customer data for disaster recovery scenarios
    • Test End to End Functionalities   of   Bigdata/Hadoop   components   at   different stages of implementation
  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience is required. Master’s degree is preferred.  
    • 5+ years combined experience in Hadoop, Cloud technologies, big data tools and applications, Linux/Unix environment.
    • Strong experience troubleshooting complicated platform or system issues and willingness to help Analytical users and data scientists.
    • Passionate to learn new frameworks, build new processes and procedures from scratch and train the analysts on best practices.
    • Must have experience with Scrum tools (like Jira) and documentation tools (like Confluence)
    • Strong knowledge of software development process and project management methodologies is desirable.
    • Strong problem solving and analytical skills. Excellent written and oral communication skills.

    Additional Information

    Our Culture of Curiosity is enabled by five foundational principles: OPENNESS – to build a more social, closely-knit community; COMRADERY – which creates an environment of trust that promotes risk-taking; ADVENTURE – which leads to new experiences and exciting, unexpected ideas; PURPOSE – which reminds us of why we come to work every day; and GROWTH – which shows us the incredible potential of our career.

    Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Our goal is to create a thriving, inclusive and diverse team where people love their work and love working together. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion is essential to our purpose of creating a better tomorrow. We value the uniqueness of every individual and want you to bring your whole, authentic self to work. For us, this is The Power of YOU and it ensures that we live what we believe.

  • Industry
    Human Resources