Spark DeveloperJob Location: Houston, TXPosition Type: ContractRate: DOEUS Citizen, Green Card, GC-EAD and H4-EAD preferred- No Third Party C2C CandidatesJob DescriptionContractor applicants must have the following skills:Experience with Scala (or Java + another functional language)Experience with SparkExperience using Git!Experience in UNIX or UNIX-like systemsExcellent written and verbal communicationExperience with sqoop, nifi, and oozie.Candidates without this must have significant expertise in the previous requirements to make up for a lack of experience with these technologiesContractor applicants will be given preference for having the following skills:Contributions to open-source big data projects (please provide link to repos)API development and management experienceExperience with PythonExperience with HBASE or other comparable noSQL big data technologyProfessional SCRUM or other similar framework experience