Gaming Innovation Group
Senior Big Data Engineer
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Senior Big Data Engineer
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Contract
Location: Malta
Reporting To: Jake Montebello
Description
At GiG, we are looking to hire a Senior Big Data Engineer for a 6-month project in our Data department. You will assume a pivotal role in taking ownership of the analysis, design, building, support of major real-time big data projects and contribute to the team's success through code reviews, promoting best practices, and implementing robust solutions across all aspects of big data endeavors.
Embracing this vital role, the Senior Big Data Engineer is instrumental in driving data-driven excellence, harnessing the power of information for strategic decision-making, and fostering organizational growth and success.
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Key Responsibilities
- Design, create, and maintain ETL processes, data integrations, and data pipelines
- Ensure seamless handling of vast amounts of data
- Leverage extensive knowledge, the engineer develops high-performance services to efficiently process, store, and analyze large datasets using optimized code
- Aim to maintain data accuracy and reliability, takes the lead in designing and implementing data validation and quality checks tailored to meet specific business needs
- Troubleshoot live production systems is a regular part of the engineer's responsibilities, ensuring smooth operations and swift issue resolution
- Demonstrate an innovative spirit, the engineer actively tests and implements new technologies, staying abreast of the latest advancements relevant to current and future projects
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Requirements
- Strong object-oriented programming skills - ideally Python and/or Java
- Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Nifi, and Big Data datastores
- Strong understanding of schema design methodologies and data models
- Expert in extracting large datasets using SQL, familiarity with SQL databases
- Strong experience with cloud compute and/or distributed systems
Benefits
- Great career development opportunities
- Hybrid working model
- International Health Insurance
- Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR per year)
- Birthday Day Off
- Me Time - 1 day off per year
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