Sr. Cloud Data Engineer

Sr. Azure Cloud Data EngineerRole: Sr. Azure Cloud Data Engineer Location: Remote/Onsite every Thursday- Houston, TX Duration: 10+ Months (with the possibility of extension) Responsibilities Development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness Builds prototypes, products, and systems that meet the project quality standards and requirements Provides technical leadership and documentation to developers and stakeholders Contributes to and supports re-use through common components that are well documented and tested. Provide timely corrective actions on all assigned defects and issues. Contributes to development plan by providing task estimates. Background Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related with a minimum of 10 years of working experience Skills and knowledge: Mandatory In-depth expertise with Azure Cloud Platform and Databricks Spark (or equivalent) Experience with streaming/processing engines for big data (Spark, Kafka, Hive, Hadoop, etc.) Expertise with one or more backend programming languages – Java/C#, Python. Experience working with typical industry-standard libraries for respective languages. Database expertise – relational and NoSQL (Oracle, SQLServer, MySQL, Cassandra, etc.) Knowledge of application networking and troubleshooting Knowledge of security principles (Oauth2, JWT, OpenAPI) Experienced in application profiling, bottleneck analysis, and performance tuning • Knowledge and experience with version control tools (Git preferred but not mandatory) Understand continuous integration and continuous delivery technologies such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps Experience with test-driven software development, ability to implement and maintain Unit tests, etc. Familiar with code quality tools and best practices Experience with working in an agile environment Nice to have Extensive experience development of web/cloud microservices Experience with big data processing on other cloud platforms - AWS, GCP, OpenShift, etc. Monitoring/operational readiness expertise Experience with BI/visualization tools: Talend, Tableau, PowerBI, Kibana, etc.