Java - Bigdata Engineers

Job Title: SW Engineer (Java, Spark, Kafka)Location: Plano, TX - OnsiteDuration: 12+-month contract to startTHEY WANT SENIOR JAVA DEVELOPERS (12+ Years) WITH GOOD DATA/KAFKA EXPERIENCEAs a Developer / Data Engineer within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Data Platforms team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted data collection, storage, access, and analytics solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining critical data pipelines and architectures across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives. You will apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders on a daily basis to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning.Job ResponsibilitiesSupports review of controls to ensure sufficient protection of enterprise dataAdvises and makes custom configuration changes in one to two tools to generate a product at the business or customer requestUpdates logical or physical data models based on new use casesInnovate new ways of managing, transforming and validating dataApply quality assurance best practices to all work productsFrequently uses SQL and understands NoSQL databases and their niche in the marketplaceAdds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respectRequiredFormal training or certification on data engineering disciplines and 3+ years applied experienceExperience across the data lifecycleFull stack development with Angular and Java or pythonAdvanced at SQL (e.g., joins and aggregations)Working understanding of NoSQL database platforms and writing efficient SQL'sKnowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplinesSolid experience in Big Data technologies; (Spark, Impala, Hive, Redshift, Kafka, etc.)Skilled in Java and Python development - MUSTSignificant experience with statistical data analysis and ability to determine appropriate tools and data patterns to perform analysisPreferredExperience with data analytics/data management processes on AWSFinancial Services and Commercial and Investment Banking experienceFamiliarity with DynamoDB and/or Cassandra