BehaviorMatrix: Sr. Big Data Engineer /Architect

Company: BehaviorMatrix
Location: Blue Bell, PA (outside Philadelphia)
Web: www.behaviormatrix.com


_Contact_:
Email a copy of your resume to HR@BehaviorMatrix.com .
In the body of your e-mail, explain briefly why you believe you are a great fit for this opportunity. In addition, please state your salary expectations.

Enjoy being challenged and solving complex problems?
Do you have experience working with large-scale distributed systems?
Interested in working with emerging technologies?

We are looking for a talented, energetic individual with demonstrated excellence in delivering robust solutions based on leading-edge technologies in the field of big data analytics. You should have experience working with very large, distributed, high-performance systems from design through implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Explore billions of records - develop and optimize algorithms to run in real-time / near real-time.
• Work with our Data Scientists and Application Development teams to turn research into products.
• Develop and implement algorithms for distributed and parallel analytics.
• Stay up-to-date w/research & innovative 3rd party products addressing storage & analysis of large datasets.
• Develop distributed/parallel solutions for analytics and visualization of structured & unstructured data sets.
• Design test cases to evaluate performance of parallel/distributed algorithms.
• Improve scalability performance of existing storage and analytics solutions.
• Reports directly to the Chief Product Officer Minimum Qualifications:
• BS/ MS in Computer Science or related field and proven hands-on coding skills
• 6-8 years of experience in commercial software development with the last 2 years working with large-scale distributed systems and very large data sets
• Experience with Hadoop, MapReduce, Solr / ElasticSearch, Hbase / CouchDB are a must

 
Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong programming experience in Java, Python, SQL, Unix Shell Scripting
• Deep knowledge in developing and troubleshooting large scale distributed systems
• Familiarity / some working experience with Twitter Storm / Apache Spark, Redis, Kafka, ZooKeeper, Mahout, and Celery a plus
• Ability to solve complex problems in a fast paced environment with limited guidance.
• An eye for quality and a willingness to do what is necessary to achieve deadlines in a dynamic environment with frequent priority changes is required.
• Able to work efficiently in teams and/or as an individual
• Good oral and written communication skills.

 
EOE M/F/D/V


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