Sparkflow Framework Engineer - NC

Job#: 3025217

Job Description:

Client: FInancial Services

Team: TBA

Job Title: Sparkflow Framework Engineer

Location: Zone 2

Contract Length: 12mo

Pay Rate: $53 - $57
Top Requirements:

4+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent via work, consulting, military, or education.

Strong hands-on engineering experience with Apache Spark (Java or Scala; Python a plus).

Experience building frameworks/libraries, API design, abstraction patterns (not just applications).

Proficiency in SQL, Spark SQL processing, and performance tuning.

Hands-on experience with version control (Git), CI/CD, and build tools like Gradle or Maven.

Experience with Hadoop ecosystem, Hive, Kafka, S3, Iceberg (nice to have).

Strong shell scripting (bash) and knowledge of database concepts.

Plusses:

Experience building onboarding/deployment patterns (config-driven pipelines, schedulers, launchers).

Familiarity with governance capabilities (audit trails, metadata/lineage, data controls).

Cloud experience with Google Cloud Platform Dataproc, AWS, or cloud-native Spark deployment patterns.

Data modeling and normalization knowledge.

Experience in integrating framework functionality into control planes (Unity, orchestration systems).

Job Summary:

This contingent Senior Software Engineer will support development of SparkFlow, an enterprise-scale data processing framework built on Apache Spark.

The engineer will build new framework features, enhance composability, improve developer experience, and support AI-enabled usability capabilities.

A key responsibility includes integrating SparkFlow with the Unity control plane, creating operators, adapters, and automation needed for orchestration.

The role also requires working with enterprise data platforms, improving diagnostics/observability, and participating in engineering best practices through design reviews and operational support.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Develop new functional features within the SparkFlow framework, including sources/targets, transformations, reliability, controls, and governance components.
• Refine and expand framework extension points-APIs, configuration patterns, libraries-for improved reusability.
• Improve developer ergonomics, including simplifying config structures, reducing onboarding friction, and enhancing observability/diagnostics.
• Build AI-enabled solutions that assist developers (guided config generation, validation, troubleshooting accelerators).
• Contribute to Unity control plane integration, including adapters, operators, automation, and integration testing.
• Participate in design reviews, framework architecture discussions, and code reviews.
• Support CI/CD processes, version control workflows, and unit/integration test automation.
• Engage in operational support, addressing issues in production and ensuring framework stability.
• Collaborate with data engineering, platform engineering, and DevOps partners on ecosystem integration.

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