Analytics Platform / Big Data Engineering Director

AVIRA Soft SRL

12-01-2015 | EXPIRA LA 11-02-2015

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RESPONSABILITATI

We are seeking a senior Analytics Platform and Big Data Engineering leader who will be responsible for building and leading the team that develops our database and analytics infrastructure - the algorithms, strategies, databases, and models, that power our data-driven cosumer applications.

Responsibilities include:

- Implementation of complete Big Data solutions, including data acquisition, storage, transformation, and analysis
- Analyze large scale data to identify new analytics, insights, trends and relationships with a strong focus on data clustering
- Design and implement real time, contextual analytics to optimize strategies
- Use various Scripting skills including PIG, HIVE other big data technologies
- Design and implement fast and efficient data processing using "big data" processing techniques and tools ( e.g., NoSQL, in memory, etc)
- Help design, engineer and support high-availability systems
- Develop highly transactional, scalable, high availability, fault-tolerant production systems
- Work with other engineers on feature design, development and implementation
- develop highly scalable NoSQL database systems
- Work with the latest technologies like, PHP, JavaScript, JAva, Node, Hadoop, MYSQL, NoSQL
- Designing and implementing statistical data-quality procedures around new data sources, whether structured or nosql
- Designing and building large and complex data sets for algorithm and predictive model development
- Thinking strategically about algorithmic uses of data and impact on business processes - and how usage iteracts with data design
- Manage virtualization of infrastructure platforms like Amazon Web Services Implement Hadoop / No SQL based solutions

A secondary objective for us is to develop the engineering and senior leadership bench. Avira is a global employer, and this assignemnt, based in Munich or Bucharest provides career opportunities over time ( minimum 12-18 months of strong performance in role)


CERINTE

We are looking for candidates with skill-sets that are both broad and deeply technical:
- A demonstrated team builder and player with strong communication ( both written and oral) and interpersonal skills. You have a proven ability to develop vibrant working relationships at multiple levels to get your work to market effectively
- Your ability to think out of the box and your strong will to pursue the right solution through extensive research inspires others and invigorates projects.
- Track record of macro-scale architecture of a software technology or product line, and providing guidance and oversight to multiple development teams working on different products or techonolies to ensure that the technologies interoperate or connect to each other appropriately.
- Your solution-finding skills are complemented by your ability to learn from others, you are curious about open-source solutions.
- You love big data and cluster computing, especially in the context of solving large- scale, real-world problems that make Avira more amazing
- You should have a BS in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Math or equivalent work experience. MS in technology field is preferred. Extra credit for having contributed to an open source project or completed advanced technical training or Phd degree
- Proven experience in building bulletproof production systems ( including monitoring and event notification)
- Must have a solid understanding of infrastructure planning, scaling, and administration considerations that are unique to Big Data.
Hands-on experience with productionalizing Hadoop applications ( e.g. administration, configuration management, monitoring, debugging, and perfronamce tuning)
- 5-8 years of work experience creating high-volume, mission-critical, production systems from scratch for processing and transforming data
- Highly proficient in a UNIX / Linux environment
- Thorough understanding of Big Data Mechanics, analytics processing, modelling and implementation
- Hands-on experience with the Hadoop stack ( e.g. MapReduce, Sqoop, Pig, Hive, Hbase, Flume)
- Technical familiarity with Tableau ( including Tableau server) desired Hands-on experience with big data analytics tools, language, or libraries ( e.g. R, Mahout) a plus
- Previous experience with high-scale or distributed RDBMS ( Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum, Aster Data, Vertica) desired
- Familiarity with the amazon Web Services stack, knowledge of cloud computing infrastructure, with consideration for scalable, distributed systmes
- Knowledge of NoSQL platform ( e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Couchbase, etc)
Sophisticated knowledge of SQL and related ( Pl/SQL, Transact SQL)


DESCRIEREA FIRMEI

Located in Bucharest - Romania, Avira was founded in 2004 by a dynamic core of security experts who is committed to the following values: security ethics, professional attitude, open spirit, pride and respect. These principles are meant to stand at the base of any long term
collaboration and partnership that Avira Soft will undertake.
Avira Soft gathered a team of more than 50 dynamic professionals who are permanently collaborating with the experimented specialists of Avira GmbH , Germany. We are a dynamic and creative team and our purpose is to produce high quality software.

We also impose some requirements for our candidates: creativity, technical knowledge, team working capabilities and the ability to finish the job on time.