Lead Sr Software Engineer (Cloudera Hadoop stack)
REMOTE
Visa Eligibility: Please confirm if the candidate is legally authorized to work in the United States
Experience Level: 10+ years
Contract 12 months
Qualifications:
· Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or related field.
· 10+ years of experience with enterprise and application design patterns that are applied on Hadoop and Big data platforms in aws.
· The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in both on-premises Hadoop ecosystems and modern cloud-native big data solutions on AWS.
· Hands-on experience with Cloudera Hadoop stack (HDFS, Hive, Spark, Oozie, Python) Proficiency in writing, maintaining, and troubleshooting shell scripts (Bash or similar) for automation and operational support.
· Migration to AWS will need – Analyze existing Cloudera Hadoop architecture, workflows, and data pipelines.
· Develop a comprehensive migration strategy to transfer data, processing logic, and applications to AWS services.
· Design target architecture using AWS big data services such as Amazon EMR, Airflow, Glue, Lambda.
· Evaluate and select appropriate AWS tools for data ingestion, storage, processing, and analytics.
· Oversee the migration process, including data transfer, application re-platforming, and validation.
· Ensure the new architecture meets performance, scalability, reliability, and security requirements.
· Collaborate with developers, data engineers, DevOps, and stakeholders to ensure a seamless migration.
· Create detailed technical documentation and migration runbooks. Mentor team members on AWS big data best practices. Strong understanding of data security, compliance, and governance in the cloud.
· Proven track record of migrating or modernizing big data workloads to AWS.
· Experience with cloud automation and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform).
· AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty) are highly desirable.
· Additional skills required Familiarity with xml/json data formats Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools
· 5+ years of experience with platform engineering tools such as Bitbucket, Gradle, Octopus, Artifactory.
Preferred Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (often required)
· Knowledge of healthcare data such as claims and entities such as providers, members and their relationship within the framework of a claim.
