Cognizant Deutschland/Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany
Big Data Platform Engineer (Hadoop) Department: EIM Big Data Continental Europe
Reports to: Head of EIM Big Data Continental Europe
Location: Based in the EU with flexible/travel across Europe The Context Join a rapidly growing consulting and IT services Fortune 500 company with close to 190,000 employees worldwide, a very flexible international business, customers that are leaders in their respective sectors, and a high level of commitment. Born global, Cognizant offers a unique learning and work environment. The EIM (Enterprise Information Management) Practice provides solutions and services to clients, that cover the whole lifecycle of information utilization from ideation to implementation to value creation. With Big Data complementing and extending the traditional information supply chain by adding business critical capabilities, the Big Data Service Line is steadily gaining significance within the practice. To address the development of its Big Data business in Europe, to support projects for our clients, and to bolster thought leadership, Cognizant is recruiting a Big DataPlatform Engineer with focus on Hadoop. The Role
We are looking for a client facing Big DataPlatform Engineer to join the growing Big Data group within the Continental European region.You will be joining an experienced team and will fulfill the role of providing Hadoop platform expertise within the team. With a solid understanding and extensive hands-on experience with Hadoop platforms for large scale deployments, you will be working on various projects building great Big Data solutions for clients, stable, scalable, enterprise-ready, and focused on creating business value. You will be, in close collaboration with our business partners and our Big Data Center of Excellence team based in India and USA,in charge of providing and guiding the client team on Hadoop platform technology and the application deployment throughout the full lifecycle of projects. We are looking for candidates, who have a self-starter mentality, a desire to learn, and the ability to grow and build relationships, both internally with colleagues and externally with clients,across different geographic regions. Primary Responsibilities
Advise clients on the best Hadoop platform technologies and configuration to meet their needs
Contribute hands-on through all phases of a project:
Plan, implement, patch, upgrade and support robust big data platforms based on the Hadoop eco-system
Deploy, configure and operate high performance solutions on the Hadoop platform
Participate in the validation of the solution on test environments and integration
Contribute to operational best practices for platform configuration and job processing
Support security and compliance assessment for the platform
Support the operational team during production deployments
Work on performance tuning and optimization of the platform
Support consultants and business analysts in pre-sales activities
Learn and adopt additional technologies as needed such as particular partner applications, NoSQL databases, different distributions
Innovate constantly, maintain the technical edge and thus contribute to thought leadership
Must Have Skills
Solid and comprehensive understanding of Hadoop platform technologies including but not limited to HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, HBase, Hive, PIG and other components of the eco-system
Solid understanding of system, network and storage architectures, distributed computing, high availability, security, performance tuning, disaster recovery and business continuity planning
Solid hands-on technical competences:
The Hadoop eco-system (Hadoop with HDFS and YARN/MapReduce, HBase, Hive, Pig, Zookeeper, Oozie and other components)
Deployment, configuration and support of applications on the Hadoop eco-system
Data acquisition and processing from upstream sources as well as transmission and distribution to downstream applications
Experience working with Hadoop clusters in a public/private cloud environment
IT consulting experience on large scale big data projects with at least one full cycle from design to implementation to transition into production
Strong sense of ownership and the ability to work with a limited set of requirements
Ability to support business development activities shaping and communicatingtechnical concepts and proposed solutions in a clear and unambiguous manner
Experience working as a member of a distributed, often global, team of technical and domain experts using agile development methods
Fluent in English, German
Highly Desirable Skills
Hands-on experience with
Processing web logs, social media data, machine-to-machine data
One or more of RDBMS, DWH, NoSQL
ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM, Pentaho, Talend, Syncsort in connection with Hadoop
One or more programming and scripting languages such as Java, Python, Scala, C++
Experience working in an agile environment (i.e. user stories, iterative development, etc.)
Working with test-driven development and software test automation
Fluent in Dutch, French
Qualification
Graduate in computer science or equivalent
Administrator certification on one of the major Hadoop distributions
5 - 7 years of professional experience About Cognizant Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work. With over 75 development and delivery centers worldwide and approximately 217,700 employees as of March 31, 2015, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world. Visit us online at or follow us on Twitter: Cognizant .
Employment Type: Permanent
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