Luxoft is a global leader in high-end software development.
Luxoft is looking for talents with a passion for technology & ready to create original solutions. Once on board, you are invited to expand your knowledge & skills, offering you a continuous learning experience helping you stretch your potential.
So if you’re enthusiastic by the idea of accessing cutting edge technology & innovation to make an impact, why don't you join us?
We are looking for a big thinker who loves to get hands on and build highly scalable solutions. Someone who enjoys being in a client-facing role with top-tier companies embracing their goals and acting as part delivery lead, part architect and part evangelist. Think of this as joining a startup but being backed by a well-established, innovative, and global company.
Operating as part of the newly formed Big Data Practice within the Internet of Things Business Group, you will help grow the practice by directly owning one or more client solution delivery teams operating in consultative capacity. You should be excited to wear many hats and the opportunity to build a team of talented individuals from the ground up. You will be responsible for the architecture of a solution, the project approach, quality, team management, and interface with the client.
A solid understanding of Hadoop, NoSQL, streaming technologies, cloud services, and analytic tools is absolutely required. Not only will our clients expect you to be passionate and creative about using data to improve their business, they will expect you dive deep at a moments notice with a wide-range of Big Data and traditional BI technologies. You should be excited by an opportunity to roll up your sleeves to write some code, spend time weighing the pros and cons of a architecture strategy, or digging in troubleshoot an existing solution. You will have the opportunity to dedicate time to staying fresh, attending conferences, and performing hands on evaluations of new products/services that could bring value to our clients. On top of an attractive salary and benefits package, Luxoft will invest into your professional training and enable you to grow your professional career.
Responsibilities:
- Manage one or more delivery teams providing big data solution delivery services at a single client, or different clients.
- Lead client projects ranging from strategy, to architecture, to implementation, to operational support.
- Provide technical leadership, career mentorship, and performance management for solution delivery resources on your team(s).
- Work cross-functionally within Luxoft and Radius to build the Big Data practice locally in Seattle, and assemble virtual solution delivery teams as needed from other global locations.
- Understand and constantly monitor the vast big data ecosystem
- Act as a trusted advisor to clients during the sales process including exploration discussions, deal formulation, team selection, and project launch
- Provide technical consultation and education to the business development team and actively support responding to client requests for proposals or SOWs
- Identify customer needs and requirements on a detailed level and consequently matching those back to proposed services or solutions
- Understand all elements of a client's technical computing environment
- Assist clients with trouble-shooting of existing solutions related to performance, scalability, maintenance, or cost of ownership
- Support the talent screening and acquisition process for the big data practice.
- Attend industry conferences and perform hands on evaluations of new products/services
- Travel to the prospect, client, and conference locations as necessary, but not in a full time capacity.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- 5-10 years of Professional Services (client facing) experience architecting and/or implementing large, distributed data warehouses, big data, or real-time data intensive applications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent client prospect and partner presentation skills, relationship building skills
- Account management and project management experience
- Deep experience with enterprise scale distributed NoSQL solutions such as HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.
- Deep experience using and developing solutions utilizing the Hadoop ecosystem such Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Oozie, Ambari, HCatalog, Zookeeper, Flume, Storm, Kafka
- Experience with Enterprise Data Warehouse Platforms such as Teradata, Netezza, Exadata, MSSQL, DB2, etc.
- Strong understanding of network configuration, devices, protocols, storage technology, data center processes, Linux, LDAP/Kerberos, etc.
- Deep experience with scripting tools such as bash shell scripts, Python, etc
- Deep experience with one or more traditional programming languages such as Java or C++
- Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and evaluating fit for a client solution delivery environment
- Ability to document, explain, and present complex architectures
- Experience with Performance Management of direct reports, career coaching. and mentorship
- Experience managing team resources in a matrixed environment
- Ability to follow and evangelize standard engineering principles and practices
- A stringent focus on quality and attention to detail, while being able to achieve a desired outcome balanced with time and cost.
- Experience with various cloud big data services such as Azure, AWS, Altiscale, Google Cloud, etc
- Experience with a wide variety of common BI tools and emerging tools such as Platfora, DataMeer, Alteryx, etc.
Building out the big data practice in Europe, play a key role in sales and initial project delivery efforts