Lead Data Engineer

Syniverse is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join their team, responsible for creating, enhancing, and maintaining optimal data pipeline architecture and implementations, and working with developers, architects, and data analysts on data initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics or related field or equivalent work experience
• 5-8 years of Software Development experience
• 3+ years of experience in Data Engineer fields
• Familiar with Agile software design processes and methodologies
• Experience in building and optimizing big data pipelines, architectures, and data sets
• Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with relational SQL databases, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.
• Experience with stream-processing systems: Flink, KSQL, Spark-Streaming, etc.
• Experience with programming languages, such as Java, Scala, Python, etc.
• Experience with cloud data engineering and development, such as AWS, etc.
• Good analytic skills related to working with structured and unstructured datasets
• Knowledge of message queuing, stream processing and scalable big data stores
• Ownership/accountability for tasks/projects with on time and quality deliveries
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Teamwork with independent design and development habits
• Work with a sense of urgency and positive attitude