Data Consultant

Requisition Number: 201406

External Description:

Position Overview
Teradata is hiring a Consultant with expertise in Big data and Apache Hadoop and be part of the dynamic Big Data team.

The ideal candidate must be a highly energetic self-starter who can perform complex hands on architecture and development on Hadoop ecosystem. The resource will also be tapped to perform proof of concepts (PoCs) for our customers during pre-sales activities.

Job Specification

Successful candidates will -
• Take a role in consulting engagements and managing day-to-day client relationships and results.
• Ensure that engagements adhere to client strategies.
• Ensure engagement quality.
• Ensure engagement adherence to budget objectives and scope.
• Engage with Teradata Account teams and prospective customers to analyse and understand customer requirements;
• Shape and influence customer requirements so that they are deployed in an optimum Hadoop architecture;
• Assist in qualifying requirements and provide guidance within the Big Data CoE that will enable him / her to determine whether Hadoop is a good fit for the problem that the customer is trying to solve;
• Participate in design, plan and execute on-site/off-site customer proof-of-concepts;
• Configure and use the Horton Hadoop distribution of tools and associated products. Typically Hive, Pig, HCatalog and MapReduce procedural programming languages;
• Partner with the Hadoop administrator to secure and configure the Hadoop cluster to optimise performance and administrate the Hadoop environment;
• Post-POC-execution, document and disseminate the results and lessons learned to all stakeholders;
• Challenges standard approaches
Qualifications
• Have hands-on experience in the design, development or support of Hadoop in an implementation environment at a leading technology vendor or end-user computing organization;
• 1+ years experience implementing ETL/ELT processes with MapReduce, PIG, Hive.
• + years hands on experience with HDFS, and NoSQL database such as HBASE, Cassandra on large data sets
• Hands on experience with NoSQL (e.g. key value store, graph db, document db)
• 2+ years experience in performance tuning and programming languages such as; Shell, C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Perl, R.
• Demonstrate a keen interest in, and solid understanding of, “big data” technology and the business trends that are driving the adoption of this technology;
• Demonstrate analytical and problem solving skills; particularly those that apply to a Big Data environment
• Maintain a good level of understanding about the Hadoop technology marketplace;
• Strong understanding of data structures, modeling and Data Warehousing.
• Team-oriented individual with excellent interpersonal, planning, coordination, and problem-solving skills.
• High degree of initiative and the ability to work independently and follow-through on assignments.
• Excellent oral and written communications skill.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant fields

 

 

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City: Cairo

State: Al Qahirah

Community / Marketing Title: Data Consultant

Job Category: Consulting

Company Profile:

Our Company

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