Software Engineer Lead

Our Client, a Health Insurance company, is looking for a Software Engineer Lead for their Reston, VA/ Hybrid location.

Responsibilities:

• Performs complex analysis, design, development, automated unit and integration testing, and debugging of computer software ranging from operating system architecture integration and software design to selection of computer systems, language, and/or equipment.
• Designs, codes, tests, develops, and documents application programs for computer systems.
• Works with end-users and project stakeholders to define system scope and objectives. Manages modifications to and maintenance of operational programs and procedures.
• Leads stakeholder and product owner meetings to define software requirements and creates highly complex systems. Acts as a mentor to junior engineers
• 25% Lead a team of software engineers in the design, development, and implementation of multiple applications.
• Performs and leads the detail technical design, coding, code review and testing of new applications and enhancements of existing applications.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for specified systems and their subsequent applications.
• Develop and/or analyze interface design documentation.
• Comply with hardware and software systems standards and procedures.
• Deliver large systems for tens of thousands of users.
• Ensures compliance to the dev/sec/ops practices and policies.
• Understanding of architectural practices and design.
• 25% Identifies gaps in requirements and solves problems for the supporting staff.
• Identifies sequencing of services and technologies that are integrated in later phases of the project.
• Leads the evaluation of risk and opportunity impacts to existing or proposed projects/programs and implements risk mitigation actions.
• Develops ways to improve performance and increase system availability.
• Provides recommendations to infuse new technology.
• Compile, assess, and report data results from software testing and analysis.
• 25% Supports the Project Manager as the technical team lead on the project.
• Estimates the technical costs of projects for clients and project managers.
• Confers with clients to identify requirements and determine desired outcomes to formulate the design of the system or offer alternatives.
• Demonstrated experience with front-end and back-end programing and integration frameworks and tools.
• Assist in the estimation of development of application features.
• 25% Leads software design and development teams. Identifies, analyzes, defines, and coordinates user, customer, and stakeholder needs and translates them into technical requirements. Manages technical resources (hardware, software, licenses, and services).
• Plans and leads transformation initiatives to new software architectures.
• Extend open-source libraries and systems as necessary to meet the needs of the team.
• Play a crucial role in product scoping and roadmap / architecture discussions. Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices. Ensure code quality, deployment standards and practices. Mentoring junior developers.
• Develop the scripts to Monitor the services on top of the Clusters and send out the Alerts if necessary.
• Write the shell scripts to monitor the health check of Hadoop daemon services and respond accordingly to any warning or failure conditions.
• Monitoring the health of all the services running in the production cluster using the Cloudera Manager.
• Performing/Accessing the databases, metastore tables and writing Hive, Impala queries using HUE. Setting up the High Availability of the Services like Hue, Hive, HBase REST, SOLR and IMPALA on top of the all-new clusters that were build on the BDPaas Platform.
• Responsible for monitoring the health of the Services on top of all clusters.
• Working closely with different teams like Application development team, Security team, Platform Support to identify and implement the Configurational changes that are needed on top of the cluster for better performance of the services.
• Ensure Cloudera installation and configuration is at optimal specifications (CDP, CDSW, Hive, Spark, NiFi).
• Perform critical data migrations from CDH to CDP.
• Design and implement big data pipelines and automated data flows using Python/R and NiFi.
• Assist and provide expertise as it pertains to automating the entire project lifecycle.
• Perform incremental updates and upgrades to the Cloudera environment.
• Assist with new use cases (i.e., analytics/ML, data science, data ingest and processing), Infrastructure (including new cluster deployments, cluster migration, expansion, major upgrades, COOP/DR, and security).
• Assist in testing, governance, data quality, training, and documentation efforts.
• Move data and use YARN to allocate resources and schedule jobs.
• Manage job workflows with Oozie and Hue.
• Implement comprehensive security policies across the Hadoop cluster using Ranger.
• Configure and manage Cloudera Data Science Workbench using Cloudera Manager.
• Troubleshoot potential issues with Kerberos, TLS/SSL, Models, and Experiments, as well as other workload issues that data scientists might encounter once the application is running.
• Supporting the Big Data / Hadoop databases throughout the development and production lifecycle.
• Troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication issues, log shipping issues, connectivity issues, security issues, performance tuning, query optimization, using monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
• Create, test, and implement scripting for automation support.
• Experience in working with Kafka ecosystem (Kafka Brokers, Connect, Zookeeper) in production is ideal
• Implement and support streaming technologies such as Kafka, Spark & Kudu

Requirements:

• Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
• Education Details: Information Technology or Computer Science
• Experience: 8 years Software design and development, software test and evaluation, software requirements management
• Experience on the user Incidents who have issues with the Cloudera Services and assisting them accordingly.
• Experience in Supporting Cloudera Applications running in Cloud
• Experience in Supporting Cloud Applications with Mongo DB
• Experience in Cloud Disaster Recovery
• Apache Kafka - strong Administration & troubleshooting skills
• Kafka Streams API stream processing with KStreams & Ktables
• Kafka integration with MQ
• Kafka broker management
• Topic/ offset management
• Apache Nifi - Administration
• Flow management
• Registry server management
• Controller service management
• Nifi to kafka /Hbase /solr integration
• Flume - integration with Kafka, Nifi & IBM MQ
• Hbase - administration
• Database management
• Troubleshooting
• Solr - administration
• Managing Logging level
• Managing shards & high availability
• Collection management
• Rectify resource intensive & long running solr queries

Why Should You Apply?

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities

As an equal opportunity employer, ICONMA provides an employment environment that supports and encourages the abilities of all persons without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or express, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability status, political affiliation, genetics, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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