Senior Database Administrator

Job Description

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in developing large-scale applications using Cassandra (Apache or DataStax).
• Proficient in Cassandra APIs, tools to import a variety of data formats like CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, etc.
• Strong understanding of CQL and Data Modeling in order to achieve highly performant data access.
• Strong experience in data modeling in Cassandra to design an efficient storage model to meet a variety of business needs
• Ability to troubleshoot & investigate stability and performance issues.
• Strong hands-on experience in programming with Java, Python, Scala, etc.
• Experience with at least one clustered/distributed computing system, HBase, Hadoop/MapReduce, Spark/SparkR, Lucene/ElasticSearch, Storm, Graph Databases, etc
• Experience building data pipelines for structured/unstructured, real-time/batch, events/synchronoasynchronous using MQ, Kafka, and stream processing.
• Experience with SQL, NoSQL, relational database design, and methods for efficiently retrieving data for Time Series Analytics.
• Experience gathering and processing raw data at scale (including writing scripts, web scraping, calling APIs, writing SQL queries, etc.)
• Experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science, Apache Spark, Python
• Experience with Cloud architecture & services like AWS, Azure
• Experience with Graph, Semantic Web, RDF Technologies, SOL, R, or ElasticSearch

Job Responsibilities

• Work with the solution architect & business analysts to define implementation design & coding of the assigned modules/responsibilities with the highest quality (bug-free).
• Determine technical approaches to be used, and define the appropriate methodologies
• Must be capable of working in a collaborative, multi-site environment to support rapid development and delivery of results and capabilities (i.e. AGILE SDLC)
• Effectively communicating technical analyses, recommendations, status, and results to the project management team.
• Strong hands-on experience with Cassandra, CQL, data modeling, data replication, clustering, and indexing for handling large data sets.
• Expertise in managing a Cassandra Cluster has Cassandra Admin using DataStax Enterprise Edition (preferred).
• Strong experience with at least one programming language, such as Java, Python, or Scala.
• Experience working with distributed systems, clustering, and replication technologies.
• Well-versed with development toolkits like Maven, GIT, Continuous Integration suites, automated deployments, JIRA, and Wiki.

Education: Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

GlobalLogic estimates the starting pay range for this role to be performed in Irving, TX, to be $110,000 to $120,000, and reflects base salary only. This pay range is provided as a good-faith estimate, and the amount offered may be higher or lower. GlobalLogic takes many factors into consideration in making an offer, including candidate qualifications, work experience, operational needs, travel and onsite requirements, internal peer equity, prevailing wage, responsibilities, and other market and business considerations.