Big Data Developer (1 month contract)

A financial services company based in Johannesburg is seeking a Big Data Developer for a 1 month contract

Responsibilities

Role provides an exciting opportunity to roll out a new strategic initiative within the firm – Enterprise Infrastructure Big Data Service.
The Big Data Developer serves as a development and support expert with responsibility for the design, development, automation, testing, support and administration of the Enterprise Infrastructure Big Data Service.
Building and supporting a real time streaming platform utilized by company data engineering community.
Responsible for developing features, ongoing support and administration, and documentation for the service.
The platform provides a messaging queue and a blueprint for integrating with existing upstream and downstream technology solutions.
Working directly across the firm with developers, operations staff, data scientists, architects and business constituents to develop and enhance the big data service.
Development and deployment of data applications
Design & Implementation of infrastructure tooling and work on horizontal frameworks and libraries
Creation of data ingestion pipelines between legacy data warehouses and the big data stack
Automation of application back-end workflows
Building and maintaining backend services created by multiple services framework
Maintain and enhance applications backed by Big Data computation applications

Experience and requirements

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or equivalent
Experience on Big Data platforms (Vanilla Hadoop, Cloudera or Hortonworks)
Be eager to learn new approaches and technologies
Experience with Scala or other functional languages (Haskell, Clojure, Kotlin, Clean) preferably

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