Careers Center | Hadoop Data Analyst
Our Home Office in Denver, CO is looking for a Hadoop Data Analyst to join our Information Technology Department. This position is part of a small group working on high priority, next generation capabilities, marketing activities and customer analytics. We believe that data analysis and recommendations are critical to strategic decision making and future growth of the business. This person has multiple hands on roles supporting and maintaining the tools that the team uses to make strategic decisions. Primary role is maintaining data processed within Hadoop environment, building and maintaining data models and supporting data analysts in their efforts to analyses, build segmentation models, and modeling of customer behavior to drive and prove out ROI.
Responsibilities
- Influence the design and implementation of data platforms and processes to capture, integrate, analyze and distribute information in the enterprise.
- Support business and functional requirements gathering for reporting and analytics solutions.
- Identify strategy, tools required, and design and implement solutions for data ingestion, storage, processing and provisioning using data platform.
- Design and implement distributed data processing pipelines using Spark, Hive, Sqoop, Python, and other tools and languages prevalent in the Hadoop ecosystem.
- Lead the design of data models for storing structure and unstructured data on data platform.
- Oversee data extraction, transformation and load from variety of data stores.
- Responsible for implementation of data governance and data security components on data platform.
- Data governance – including data modeling, data cleansing and normalization, security.
- Develops and maintains technical documentation.
- Translates business concepts to technical implementations to drive alignment and decisions making.
- Keeping track of Hadoop Cluster connectivity and security.
- Resolve issues regarding development, operations, implementations, and system status.
- Defining job flows within the Hadoop environment.
- Work with team to extract data relevant for analysis.
- Plan and develop big data analytics projects based on business requirements.
- Ability to work efficiently with and support our offshore team (India).
Careers Center | Hadoop Data Analyst
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in MIS, CS or related field. Master’s preferred.
- Three years in an enterprise Hadoop environment.
- Ability to work with team members and clients to assess needs, provide assistance and resolve problems, using excellent problem-solving skills, verbal/written communication, and the ability to explain technical concepts to business people
- Proven ability to explore and dig into unknown spaces, with little supervision, while being technically driven and curious
- Proven comfort with agile development methodologies.
- Demonstrated strong work ethic, ability to take ownership, and habit of excellence.
- Proven understanding of cloud and distributed systems principles, including load balancing, networks, scaling, in-memory vs. disk, etc.; and experience with large-scale, big data solutions, such as Hadoop
- Familiarity with data loading tools like Flume, Sqoop and knowledge of workflow/schedulers like Oozie.
- Experience with programing languages Java or Scala, Python, Node.js, SQL.
- Demonstrated strong communication skills, interpersonal skills, and ability to be a team player.
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