$125 - $135/hr - Sr. BigData Architect in NYC

seeking a Big Data Architect.

Location: New York, NY

Position Type: Contract or Full Time

Job Overview:
-The ideal candidate will have extensive experience building applications using Big Data technologies and NoSQL Databases (Cassandra, Hadoop, etc), Cloud Technologies (e.g. AWS) and have experience working with large volumes of data and messages.
-Java programming is a must.

Responsibilities:
-Architect highly scalable, high-performance and reliable big data system
-Design, architect and develop frameworks/APIs for accessing data
-Design and architect fault tolerant, real-time and near real-time data capture, processing and storage platform
-Use all the tools in your tool belt where they make sense: Storm, Cassandra, Hadoop, ParAccel, HBase, etc.

Qualifications:
-Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
-Minimum 4 years of programming with extensive experience in Java with experience one other language, (e.g. Scala, Python, etc.) a plus
-Experience Big Data, Data Warehousing, Web Services/REST, Distributed Computing
-Developed and maintained large scale distributed data applications
-Experience working with and scaling large clusters of machines
-Exposure to large databases and performance tuning and system-level tools for debugging
-A thorough understanding of difference between relational systems and NoSQL databases and the types of use cases each can solve.
-A scrappy, entrepreneurial attitude that gets high-quality projects done quickly
-Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment