Data Engineering Manager
At West Monroe, our people are our business.
We pride ourselves on bringing a different mindset to consulting—and that takes a different approach: highly collaborative, flexible, and tenacious.
Our people-first culture is core to our identity. It’s something we care about, and something we strive to enrich and preserve. No hierarchies. No siloes. No egos. Just smart ideas, unique perspectives, and the drive to make an impact for our clients.
We also know that the best outcomes for both our people and our clients result from including diverse perspectives at the table. That’s why inclusion & diversity is one of our core values.
Every day our clients rely on us to help them tackle their greatest challenges, by strategically deploying technology through a business-focused and industry-specific lens. We bring together both the right knowledge and the right approach, so that they can capitalize on opportunities and deliver real results. That takes the right team. And that’s where you come in.
Ready for the next step on your career journey?
West Monroe is seeking an experienced Big Data Architect to join our thriving Advanced Analytics Practice in the Chicago office. This is an excellent opportunity to work within our Information Management team with Fortune 250 clients developing Big Data strategy and roadmaps, implementing new large scale analytics platforms, while gaining exposure to a variety of industries including healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, E&U, and professional services.
Responsibilities:
- Provide guidance and platform selection advice for common Big Data (Distributed) platforms, including Hadoop, Cassandra, Mongo, Elastic, and others.
- Design data flow and processing pipelines for ingestion and analysis using modern toolsets such as Spark on Scala, Storm, Flume, Sqoop, and others.
- Design data structures for ingestion and reporting, specific to use case and technology.
- Provide data management expertise to our clients in evaluating requirements and developing data architecture and performing platform selection and design. Data
- management includes appropriate structuring, stewardship of data, semantics/syntax of data attributes, coding structures, and mapping schemes.
- Guide and coach consultants, share best practices, perform code reviews
- Coordinate activities with data source application owners to ensure integration with analytics platform and source systems.
- Ensure that data integrity issues are addressed.
- Liaise and attend meetings necessary to perform duties and aid business and technical development.
Qualifications:
- The ideal candidate will have 5 + years of professional experience and two with Hadoop
- Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills
- Travel requirements: up to 50%
- 3+ years of prior consulting experience
- Very strong technical knowledge in Hadoop (HDFS, Hive, Spark, Sqoop, cluster tuning).
- Understanding of the major feature sets of Hadoop vendors (Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR, etc)
- Experience with other NoSQL platforms, focused on what requirements drive technology choices.
- Experience with Microsoft BI tools a strong plus
- Has good knowledge of standard methodologies, concepts, best practices, and procedures within a Big Data environment
- A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required as well as flexibility in job role and working hours during critical deliveries
- A natural sense of urgency, initiative and a positive team player philosophy to be reflected in daily work ethics.
Think you’ve got what it takes? Join our team and make us better.
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