Superior oral, and written communication skills, as well as the willingness to collaborate across teams of internal and external technical staff, business analysts, software support, and operations staff.
Ability to write abstracted, reusable code components
Hands-on experience in writing shell scripts, complex SQL queries, Hadoop commands, and Git
Minimum 5 years experience working with and developing solutions using Python / R
Experience in developing Hive, Sqoop, Spark, Kafka, HBase on Hadoop
Familiar with Hortonworks, Zookeeper, and Oozie is a plus
Willingness to learn new technologies quickly
Strong business acumen, Critical Thinking, and Creativity
Performance tuning experience
Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (such as Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Econometrics) and a minimum of 10 years of experience
Minimum 5 years of SAS experience (configuration & development experience)