Title: Data Engineer Location: Pittsburgh, PA Type: 6 months (contract to hire) RATE : open Requirements 5+ years of developing software using object-oriented or functional language experience 5+ years of SQL 3+ years working with open source Big Data technology stacks (Apache Nifi, Spark, Kafka, HBase, Hadoop/HDFS, Hive, Drill, Pig, etc.) or commercial open source Big Data technology stacks (Hortonworks, Cloudera, etc.) 3+ years with document databases (e.g. MongoDB, Accumulo, etc.) 3+ years of experience using Agile development processes (e.g. developing and estimating user stories, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, etc.) 2+ years of distributed version control system (e.g. git) 3+ years of experience in cloud-based development and delivery Familiarity with distributed computing patterns, techniques, and technologies (e.g. ESB) Familiarity with continuous delivery technologies (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Docker, Vagrant, etc.) Familiarity with build automation and continuous integration tools (e.g. Maven, Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.) Familiarity with Agile process management tools (e.g. Atlassian Jira) Familiarity with test automation (Selenium, SoapUI, etc.) Good software development and Object Oriented programming skills. Strong analytical skills and the ability to work with end users to transform requests into robust solutions. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Initiative and self-motivation to work independently on projects. Benefits Note: If interested please send your updated resume and include your salary requirement along with your contact details with a suitable time when we can reach you. If you know of anyone in your sphere of contacts, who would be a perfect match for this job then, we would appreciate if you can forward this posting to them with a copy to us.We look forward to hearing from you at the earliest!