Scala/Spark Development Engineer

Currently, we are looking for a Scala/Spark Development Engineer to join one of our international clients operating in the banking industry, for a period of 6 months with the possibility of extensions situated in Amsterdam.

Project description:
You will be working in an Agile Scrum team are responsible for all IT services related to data analytics. The client is operating a Cloudera based Big Data solution and implementing a Machine Learning platform and Informatica tooling for data quality and governance.

Project responsibilities:

In this role, you will be

• Doing Application(s) Development, Testing, Support and Maintenance of Data Analytics Applications.

• Deliver designs, discuss these with f.i. DBA and the larger sized designs need to be discussed in the design review board

• Deliver working test scenarios and test cases

• Develop and test the software and initiate the necessary activities to get the developed software installed in production

• Deliver documentation that corresponds to the guidelines

Skills and competencies:

• Academic or HBO work and thinking level

• At least 4 years of IT development experience in Java plus experience with functional programming(Scala)

• At least 1-year experience with Spark / Hadoop (Experience with Flume, Kafka, Impala etc. is an advantage)

• Good working experience with Cloudera Stack

• Knowledge of AWS services preferred

• Strong Analytical skills

• Affinity with financial markets

• Team player with a hands-on mentality

• good communications skills, both verbal and written, in English

Are you are ready to take on the next challenge in your career and take upon another challenging project?
We are looking forward to your application and getting in touch shortly to discuss this opportunity in further detail.