Lead Sr Software Engineer (Cloudera Hadoop stack)

Lead Sr Software Engineer (Cloudera Hadoop stack)

REMOTE

Visa Eligibility:

Please confirm if the candidate is legally authorized to work in the United States

Experience Level:

10+ years

Contract 12 months

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience with enterprise and application design patterns that are applied on Hadoop and Big data platforms in aws.
• The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in both on-premises Hadoop ecosystems and modern cloud-native big data solutions on AWS.
• Hands-on experience with Cloudera Hadoop stack (HDFS, Hive, Spark, Oozie, Python) Proficiency in writing, maintaining, and troubleshooting shell scripts (Bash or similar) for automation and operational support.
• Migration to AWS will need – Analyze existing Cloudera Hadoop architecture, workflows, and data pipelines.
• Develop a comprehensive migration strategy to transfer data, processing logic, and applications to AWS services.
• Design target architecture using AWS big data services such as Amazon EMR, Airflow, Glue, Lambda.
• Evaluate and select appropriate AWS tools for data ingestion, storage, processing, and analytics.
• Oversee the migration process, including data transfer, application re-platforming, and validation.
• Ensure the new architecture meets performance, scalability, reliability, and security requirements.
• Collaborate with developers, data engineers, DevOps, and stakeholders to ensure a seamless migration.
• Create detailed technical documentation and migration runbooks. Mentor team members on AWS big data best practices. Strong understanding of data security, compliance, and governance in the cloud.
• Proven track record of migrating or modernizing big data workloads to AWS.
• Experience with cloud automation and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform).
• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty) are highly desirable.
• Additional skills required Familiarity with xml/json data formats Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools
• 5+ years of experience with platform engineering tools such as Bitbucket, Gradle, Octopus, Artifactory.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (often required)
• Knowledge of healthcare data such as claims and entities such as providers, members and their relationship within the framework of a claim.