Big Data Architect - Hadoop - Manager + Job Listing at Accenture in Chicago, IL (Job ID 00169980)

Consulting, Business Development/Sales

Basic Qualifications:
 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Technical Science
  
• 1 year of hands-on experience programming on a high-scale or distributed system (such as Hadoop)
  
• 6 years systems development and implementation experience
  
• 2 years managing a technical team
  
• Ability to support business development activities to shape and communicate proposed solutions to client executives and architects 
  
• Experience with including at least 2 of the following tasks in the context of high-scale or distributed systems:
  
  
  
  • Implementation of ETL applications
    
  • Implementation of reporting applications
    
  • Application/implementation of custom analytics
    
  • Administration of relational databases
    
  • Data migration from existing data stores
    
  • Infrastructure and storage design
    
  • Developing capacity plans for new and existing systems

 
Preferred Skills: 

• Hands-on experience with the Hadoop stack (e.g. MapReduce, Sqoop, Pig, Hive, Hbase, Flume)
  
• Hands-on experience with related/complementary open source software platforms and languages (e.g. Java, Linux, Apache, Perl/Python/PHP, Chef)
  
• Hands-on experience with ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) tools (e.g Informatica,  Talend, Pentaho)
  
• Hands-on experience with BI tools and reporting software (e.g. Microstrategy, Cognos, Pentaho)
  
• Hands-on experience with analytical tools, languages, or libraries (e.g. SAS, SPSS, R, Mahout)
  
• Hands-on experience with "productionalizing" Hadoop applications (e.g. administration, configuration management, monitoring, debugging, and performance tuning)
  
• Previous experience with high-scale or distributed RDBMS (Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum, Aster Data, Vertica)
  
• Knowledge of cloud computing infrastructure (e.g. Amazon Web Services EC2, Elastic MapReduce) and considerations for scalable, distributed systems
  
• Knowledge of NoSQL platforms (e.g. key-value stores, graph databases, RDF triple stores 

Professional Skills Requirements:

• Self-starter, with a keen interest in technology and highly motivated towards success
  
• Must be proactive and be prepared to address meetings
  
• Must show initiative and desire to learn business subjects
  
• Able to work independently and provide updates to management
  
• Strong analytical and problem solving capabilities
  
• Excellent problem solving skills; proven teamwork and communication skills
  
• Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian
  
• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian

 
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
 


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