Principal Data Engineer

Job Title: Principal Data Engineer

Location: South Jordan, UT / Salt Lake City, UT

Overview:

As a member of the Think Big team, you will work with--and learn from--the best people in the industry as you help clients define their Big Data and Analytics strategy, architect and implement these road maps, and bring to life revolutionary new analytics and insights.

Our teams value collaboration and professional growth whether it's learning an industry when traveling to work with customers, creating new and never-been-done before solutions, or speaking at conferences about our clients' accomplishments and successes. We believe in developing our people to be expert technologists and thought leaders in the Big Data space!

You will:

• Work in a presales capacity to define, design and defend complex solutions that you helped to architect/create to some of the World’s most prestigious clients.
• Provide technical direction to a world class engineering team
• Collaborate with Sales and Client Partners to develop new business and manage existing client relationships
• Design and develop code, scripts, data pipelines, and analytical applications that leverage structured and unstructured data
• Participate in and lead requirements and design workshops with our clients
• Must be adept at sizing and estimating new projects, as well supporting new business development.
• Mentoring junior members on the team in application architecture, design and development best practices
• Help establish thought leadership in the big data space by contributing to white-papers, technical commentary and representing our company at industry conferences.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience leading technical teams
• Proven expertise in production software development
• 7+ years of experience programming in Java
• Unix experience
• Prior experience with Hadoop, HBase, Hive, and Map/Reduce or Spark
• Experience with other programming languages (Python, C, C++, etc.)
• Proficiency in SQL, NoSQL, relational database design and methods
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience building complex and non-interactive systems (batch, streaming, distributed, etc.

Ideally you would have:

• Prior consulting experience
• Experience with Hadoop, Hive, Spark
• Experience with cloud based architectures such as AWS and Azure
• Service Oriented Architecture:  ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, JBoss, J2EE, etc.
• Dynamic and/or functional languages (Python, Ruby, Scala, Clojure, etc.)
• Linux expertise
• Familiarity with different development methodologies (e.g. agile, waterfall, XP, scrum, etc)

What we can offer you:

• An opportunity to be a part of the Big Data, Analytics, AI industry! Teradata invented the Big Data space and we’re now leading it at scale
• Voted as one of the world’s most ethical companies for 8 years running

About Teradata:

With more than 10,000 employees in 43 countries, Teradata empowers companies to achieve high-impact business outcomes through analytics. With a powerful combination of Industry expertise and leading hybrid cloud technologies for data warehousing and big data analytics, Teradata unleashes the potential of great companies. Partnering with top companies around the world, Teradata helps improve customer experience, mitigate risk, drive product innovation, achieve operational excellence, transform finance, and optimize assets. Teradata is recognized by media and industry analysts as a future-focused company for its technological excellence, sustainability, ethics, and business value

Teradata is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and commits to hiring returning veterans.