Lead Hadoop Administrator

4 days ago


Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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 roles require experience with both Hadoop and Kafka. This will involve building and supporting a real time streaming platform utilized by 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

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.
- 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
- Building and maintaining backend services created by multiple services framework
- 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 reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_



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