Role: Big Data Engineer

Contract Period: ASAP - March 2022

Location: Basel, Switzerland

Overview:

On behalf of a financial institution based in Basel, we are looking to hire an experienced Big Data Engineer. This is an excellent opportunity to be working with one of the world's leading financial institutions and with leading professionals in the field.

Responsibilities:

• Provide implementation support on variety of data management and analytics projects using the Bank's approved databases (big data as well as relational databases) and analytical technologies
• Develop required code for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and 'big data' technologies.
• Participate and contribute in overall data architecture and the design of Big Data & Advance Analytics solutions
• Designing, developing, constructing, installing, testing and maintaining highly scalable, robust and fault-tolerant data management & processing systems by integrating a variety of programming languages & tools together
• Develop end-to-end data pipelines; defining database structure, applying business rules and functional capabilities, security, data retention requirement etc
• Work with stakeholders including the business side as well as big data solution architect to strive for greater standardization across various data pipelines
• Ensure effective design and development of system architectures through frequent product deliveries; employing effective governance methods for transparency and communication.
• Propose and implement ways to improve data quality, reliability & efficiency of the whole system.
• Develop functional specifications in a team environment, as well as derive use cases where appropriate
• Assist and support proof of concepts as Big Data technology evolves
• Translate, load and present disparate datasets in multiple formats/sources including JSON
• Translate functional and technical requirements into detail design

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5+ years professional experience in Big Data environment
• Experience in data migration from relational databases to Hadoop HDFS
• Hands-on development in using open-source big data tools such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, HBase, Kafka, Impala, ELK etc. preferably with Cloudera
• Strong, in-depth experience in data modelling, design patterns and experience with dimensional modelling, data mining, predictive analytics
• Experience in designing and developing large-scale distributed applications using HBASE/ Hadoop/ Spark/ Scala
• Experience with design and implementation of ETL/ELT framework for complex warehouses/marts - experience with performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Experience in building data ingestion pipelines -simulating ETL or ELT workloads for data warehouse or data lake architecture.
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL)
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Airflow, RunDeck, Nifi etc
• Experience with stream-processing systems: Kafka, Spark-Streaming, etc.
• Knowledge of service-oriented architecture and experience in API creation and management technologies (REST, SOAP)
• Knowledge on Data warehousing/Data Mart and data lake architecture
• Experience in Automated Testing, Test-driven Development, debugging, troubleshooting, and optimizing code: senior level experience and knowledge

If you believe you meet the above requirements and are looking for a long term project in a modern environment, please send your CV to Alexandra Ionescu at

???We are not able to consider applications from any non - EU 27 candidates.

Job Title: Data Analytics Engineer

Location: Basel, Switzerland

Rate/Salary: 1.00 - 1.00 CHF Hourly

Job Type: Contract

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