Lead Big Data Engineer (Contract)
Avvo is looking to hire a Lead Big Data Engineer in a long-term contracting role in the Seattle area. This person would be responsible for providing guidance on our data platform architecture while mentoring and guiding our data engineering team. Avvo is a highly collaborative, agile work environment, so the ideal candidate would demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and good business knowledge in addition to excellent technical depth.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical and project leadership for the Data Engineering team
- Analyze existing and upcoming requirements for data platform; design and lead implementation of new features and platform modifications
- Supporting Data Engineering team with daily maintenance/improvements of the existing Data Warehouse platform
- Develop new Hadoop workflows and enhance existing ones
- Mentor and develop the technical skill of more junior members of the Data Engineering team
Requirements
- Substantial proven experience building, debugging and optimizing complex distributed systems or backend services
- Very strong big data architecture knowledge, specifically in Hadoop
- Excellent knowledge of Scala and/or Python in Spark or other big data framework
- Experience using Apache Kafka in production
- Very strong SQL skills
- Strong communication ability
- Desire to work collaboratively across many teams
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Avvo is centrally located in downtown Seattle just a few blocks away from the Westlake Center. We are a key member of Seattle's tech community.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.