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Accenture

Big Data Engineer

Los Angeles, CA

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As part of our Data Business Group, you will lead technology innovation for our clients through robust delivery of world-class solutions. You will build better software better! There will never be a typical day and that's why people love it here. The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are unlimited in the ever-changing technology landscape. You will be part of a highly collaborative and growing network of technology and data experts, who are taking on today's biggest, most complex business challenges using the latest data and analytics technologies. We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. Come grow your career in Technology at Accenture!

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You Are
A Big Data engineering maestro who knows how to build modern data architectures to provide mountains of data to data analysts and scientists. Your not-s0-secret talent Developing, maintaining, testing, and evaluating Big Data solutions to help organizations make smarter decisions. You're familiar with the systems side of Hadoop-based technologies such as MapReduce, Hive, MongoDB, and Cassandra, and you're a wizard in data warehousing solutions. You thrive in a team setting where you can use your formidable creative and analytical powers to annihilate problems. Communication and people skills You have both in spades, along with strong leadership and management chops. You're a natural at bringing out the best in teams, and working in an information systems environment makes you more than happy.
The Work
- Work with clients to grasp their business philosophy and IT strategy; act as a beacon of our vision that the purpose of data pipelines is to help clients make better decisions by giving them the right data at the right time
- Design, build, and implement advanced data pipelines that bring together data from a range of sources. Make sure the data is accessible to data scientists, analysts, and other users via a variety of programming languages
- Carry out complex Big Data projects that collect, parse, manage, analyze, and visualize large data sets, providing insights that clients can act on across their customer-facing platforms
- Understand the challenges being addressed by an engagement and collaborate with team members and clients to deliver a technical solution that meets the unique needs of our clients
- Describe technical solutions to appropriate audiences by creating high-quality content
- Mentor and lead more junior team members
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Qualifications

Here's What You Need
- Minimum of 2 years of hands-on technical experience implementing or supporting Big Data solutions utilizing Hadoop, Hive and Python
- Experience developing solutions utilizing at least two of the following:
- Kafka based streaming services
- R Studio
- Cassandra , MongoDB
- MapReduce, Pig, Hive
- Scala, Spark
- Knowledge on Jenkins, Chef, Puppet
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years work experience). If Associate's Degree, must have equivalent minimum 6 years work experience

Bonus Points If
- You've got experience of full life-cycle development
- You have experience with delivering Big Data Solutions in the cloud with AWS or Azure
- You can configure and support API and Open Source integrations
- You have experience administering Hadoop or other Data Science and Analytics platforms using the technologies above [LC1]
- You're no newbie when it comes to working in a DevOps environment
- You're familiar with designing ingestion, low-latency, visualization clusters to sustain data loads

Our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.
What We Believe
We have an unwavering commitment to diversity with the aim that every one of our people has a full sense of belonging within our organization. As a business imperative, every person atAccenture has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment.
Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and ourcommunities.Read more here

As required by theColorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, Accenture provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado only , the range of starting pay for this role is $72,400 - $ 114,499 and information on benefits offered is here.

What We Believe

We have an unwavering commitment to diversity with the aim that every one of our people has a full sense of belonging within our organization. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment.

Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities. Read more here

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Job ID: AccentureInc-00877017
Employment Type: Other