Data EngineerLocation – San Diego, or San Jose, CA Duration – 6 months Rate – DOE $/hr. on w2 US Citizen, Green Card, TN, onlyPrimary Skills:Bachelor’s degree or above (Computer Science, Bio Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Engineering or any related field)7 years of cloud-based big data platform development experienceExperience with Azure Cloud ServicesDesigning solutions architectureBuilding big data platformBuilding RESTful APIsWorking with infrastructure and security as codeDesigning data modelsProficient understanding and tech-lead level experience in one or more programming languages (Java, Scala, Python etc.)Experience with JSON, RESTful web services and client-server interactionsKnowledge of various persistence (RDBMS, noSQL, HDFS, Cassandra, Redis)Understanding Data Catalog, Data Governance, Data LineageExperience with security, authentication in data platformExperience with building stream-processing systems, using solutions such as Spark-Streaming or FlinkExperience with integration of data from multiple data sourcesExperience with building data lakes and data warehouses by leveraging any of the major cloud providers (GCP, AWS or Azure) is highly desirableFamiliar with Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, HBase etc.), especially SparkGood basics of operating systems and networkRole Desirables:Experience with Spring/Spring BootExperience with highly scalable web servicesAPI design and developmentEnvironment management/orchestration systems (Kubernetes, etc.)Experience with testing frameworks and code quality tools