Lead Hadoop Administrator

2 weeks ago


Pretoria, South Africa Absa Bank Full time

Time left to apply: End Date: November 11, 2024 (5 days left to apply)

Job requisition ID: R-15968656

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

This role provides an exciting opportunity to roll out a new strategic initiative within the firm-- Enterprise Infrastructure Big Data Service. The Big Data Developer serves as a development and support expert with responsibility for the design, development, automation, testing, support and administration of the Enterprise Infrastructure Big Data Service. The role requires experience with both Hadoop and Kafka. This will involve building and supporting a real-time streaming platform utilized by the Absa data engineering community. You will be responsible for developing features, ongoing support and administration, and documentation for the service. The platform provides a messaging queue and a blueprint for integrating with existing upstream and downstream technology solutions.

Job Description

Candidate Description

You will have the opportunity of working directly across the firm with developers, operations staff, data scientists, architects and business constituents to develop and enhance the big data service.

- Development and deployment of data applications

- Design & Implementation of infrastructure tooling and work on horizontal frameworks and libraries

- Creation of data ingestion pipelines between legacy data warehouses and the big data stack

- Automation of application back-end workflows

- Building and maintaining backend services created by multiple services framework

- Maintain and enhance applications backed by Big Data computation applications

- Be eager to learn new approaches and technologies

- Strong problem solving skills

- Strong programming skills

- Background in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics or equivalent

- Worked on Big Data platforms (Vanilla Hadoop, Cloudera or Hortonworks)

- Preferred: Experience with Scala or other functional languages (Haskell, Clojure, Kotlin, Clean)

- Preferred: Experience with some of the following: Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig, Oozie, ZooKeeper, MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Impala, Kudu, Linux, Bash, version control tools, continuous integration tools

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.

About Us

Truly African

We are a diversified standalone African financial services group, delivering an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth, investment management and insurance.

Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41,000 employees.

We own majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (ABSA Bank in Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda, and Zambia. We also have offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, a Technology Hub in Prague, and insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.

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