Hadoop Application Support Lead

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

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At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:

This job is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, coding solutions, unit testing, and ensuring the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Job expectations include an awareness of development and testing practices in the industry.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements

• Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements

• Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities

• Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements

• Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle

• Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause

• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or business-related field, or equivalent education.

• 5 years of experience in data warehousing architectural approaches and minimum 4 years in big data (Cloudera)

• Exposure to and strong working knowledge of distributed systems

• Excellent understanding of client-service models and customer orientation in service delivery

• Ability to grasp the 'big picture' for a solution by considering all potential options in impacted area

• Presentation skills to prepare and present to large and small groups on technical and functional topics

• 24/7 Monitoring of production applications to make sure SLAs are met

• Triage and Remediation of Job failures

• Work with upstream/downstream applications for any delays or data issues

• Sound understanding and experience with Hadoop ecosystem (Cloudera). Able to understand and explore the constantly evolving tools within Hadoop ecosystem and apply them appropriately to the relevant problems at hand.

• Experience in working with a Big Data implementation in production environment

• Experience in HDFS, Map Reduce, Hive, impala, Spark, Kafka &Linux/Unix technologies is mandatory

• Experience in Unix shell scripting is mandatory

• Able to analyze the existing shell scripts/python/perl code to debug any issues or enhance the code

• Sound knowledge of relational databases (SQL) and experience with large SQL based systems.

• Strong IT consulting experience in various data warehousing engagement, handling large data volumes, architecting big data environments.

• Deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques and software development in a team environment.

• Benchmark and debug critical issues with algorithms and software as they arise.

Desired Qualifications:

• Previous experience in the financial services industry

• Previous experience in production support

• Broad BofA technical experience and good understanding of existing testing/operational processes and an open mind on how to enhance those

• Understanding of industry trends and relevant application technologies

• Experience in designing and implementing analytical environments and business intelligence solutions

Skills:

• Application Development

• Automation

• Collaboration

• DevOps Practices

• Solution Design

• Agile Practices

• Architecture

• Result Orientation

• Solution Delivery Process

• User Experience Design

• Analytical Thinking

• Data Management

• Risk Management

• Technical Strategy Development

• Test Engineering

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