Tech Lead (Talend) at Cognizant in Juno Beach, Florida

Job Description:

Role: Tech Lead (Talend)

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.). Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and we are among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

*Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

 

Location:

Juno Beach, FL– Work will be Remote until COVID

Practice - AIA - Artificial Intelligence and Analytics

About AI & Analytics: Artificial intelligence (AI) and the data it collects and analyzes will soon sit at the core of all intelligent, human-centric businesses. By decoding customer needs, preferences, and behaviors, our clients can understand exactly what services, products, and experiences their consumers need. Within AI & Analytics, we work to design the future—a future in which trial-and-error business decisions have been replaced by informed choices and data-supported strategies.

By applying AI and data science, we help leading companies to prototype, refine, validate, and scale their AI and analytics products and delivery models. Cognizant’s AIA practice takes insights that are buried in data, and provides businesses a clear way to transform how they source, interpret and consume their information. Our clients need flexible data structures and a streamlined data architecture that quickly turns data resources into informative, meaningful intelligence.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for full life-cycle software development, including requirements gathering, software design, implementation, testing and deployment.


• Design and develop reusable talend framework for Big data solution.


• Design and develop shared routines.


• Build high performing and scalable data pipeline platform using Talend, Hadoop, Apache Spark and Amazon S3 based object storage architecture.


• Define ETL best practices and development framework


• Technical project leadership, focus on practical & effective Design & Development.


• Listen to and interpret what the business wants to see accomplished, discuss details in an easy-to-understand way, and then translate it all into nuts-and-bolts technical output.


• Will be responsible for designing and creating reusable generic parameterized extraction, transformation and load pipelines.


• Must test their designs to ensure the system runs smoothly.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or relevant field


• Minimum 5-6 years' experience in Talend Big data edition.


• Expertise in design and development of DI & Big data jobs within Talend.


• Knowledge of Cloudera/Mapr distribution, Hive, hbase & Salesforce CRM.


• Experience working on Redshift, S3 and AWS cloud


• Design and development experience with columnar databases using Parquet or ORC file formats on Hadoop


• Experience in creating tables, partitioning, bucketing, loading and aggregating data using Spark SQL/Scala


• Experience in Hadoop ecosystem tools for real-time or batch data ingestion


• Apache Spark design and development experience using Scala, Java, Python or Data Frames with Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs)


• Knowledge of Spark SQL with various data sources like JSON, Parquet and Key Value Pair.


• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills


• Knowledge of project management methodologies: used in waterfall or Agile development projects.


• Basic knowledge of DevOps principles

Cognizant is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V. Cognizant is committed to ensuring that all current and prospective associates are afforded equal opportunities and treatment and a work environment free of harassment.

Cognizant is recognized as a Military Friendly Employer and is a coalition member of the Veteran Jobs Mission. Our Cognizant Veterans Network assists Veterans in building and growing a career at Cognizant that allows them to leverage the leadership, loyalty, integrity, and commitment to excellence instilled in them through participation in military service.

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Technical Skills

SNo	Primary Skill	Proficiency Level *	Rqrd./Dsrd.
1	Talend Platform for Big Data	PL1	Required
2	TALEND ETL	PL1	Required

 

* Proficiency Legends

Proficiency Level	Generic Reference
PL1	The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.
PL2	The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.
PL3	The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.
PL4	The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.

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