Job Description

Senior Architect to join our thriving Advanced Analytics Practice in the Dallas office. This is an excellent opportunity to work within our Technology team with clients developing Big Data strategy and roadmaps, implementing new large scale analytics platforms, while gaining exposure to a variety of industries including Healthcare & Lifesciences, Financial Services &Banking, Consumer & Industrial Products, and Energy & Utilities. RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide guidance and platform selection advice for common Big Data (Distributed) platforms, including Hadoop, Cassandra, Mongo, Elastic, and others
• Design data flow and processing pipelines for analysis using modern toolsets such as Spark on Scala, Storm, Flume, Sqoop
• Design data structures for ingestion and reporting, specific to use case and technology
• Provide data management expertise to our clients in evaluating requirements and developing data architecture and performing platform selection and design. Data management includes appropriate structuring, stewardship of data, semantics/syntax of data attributes, coding structures, and mapping schemes
• Guide and coach consultants, share best practices, perform code reviews
• Coordinate activities with data source application owners to ensure integration with analytics platform and source systems
• Ensure that data integrity issues are addressed
• Liaise and attend meetings necessary to perform duties and aid business and technical development

QUALIFICATIONS :

• 10+ years of professional experience and 5+ with Hadoop
• 8+ years of prior consulting experience
• Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills
• Very strong technical knowledge in Hadoop (HDFS, Hive, Spark, Sqoop, cluster tuning)
• Understanding of the major feature sets of Hadoop vendors (Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR, etc)
• Experience with other NoSQL platforms, focused on what requirements drive technology choices
• Experience with Microsoft BI tools a strong plus
• Knowledge of standard methodologies, concepts, best practices, and procedures within a Big Data environment
• Sense of urgency, initiative and a positive team player philosophy to be reflected in daily work ethics
• A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives
• Travel requirements up to 70%

Company Description

Agile Premier is a privately-owned recruiting firm that specializes in Information Technology recruiting. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Agile Premier is the market leader for placing key contributors and leaders within the software development life cycle, business intelligence solutions, data management, systems and network engineering, ERP, content management / team collaboration space, medical device technology, pharma-tech and logistics. Agile Premier's internal team consists of the top performing recruiters in the industry who focus solely on building long-term relationships with Information Technology professionals. Our recruiting specialties include but are not limited to .NET, PHP, SharePoint, Windows Server, Linux/Unix Server, SSIS/Informatica, Cisco, Java, VMWare, Citrix, Oracle/SQL Server database, and much more.