IT / Software / Systems: Big Data Engineer - Hartford, Connecticut - (Hartford, CT)

*Role: Big Data Engineer* *Location: Hartford, CT* *Permanent-Full-time* Responsibilities - Collaborate together with data analysts and development stakeholders to transform data operations - Design, document, and implement data lake and data stream processing - Support the testing, deployment, and support of data processes - Understand when to use data streams vs data lakes - Design and implement support tools for data processes - Benchmark systems, analyze bottlenecks and propose solutions to eliminate them - Articulate and align fellow teammates to data process designs Skills - Background architecting and deploying highly scalable distributed systems - Background using Spark, Storm, Kafka, Hadoop/MapReduce, *SQL* and other data processing tools and languages - Background creating high-performance algorithms in scalable languages such as Scala and Java - Familiarity with Big Data patterns of analysis such as machine learning