Application Data Developer Expert (Senior Data Engineer)

Akkodis is seeking an Application Data Developer Expert (Senior Data Engineer) for a Contract position. The Senior Data Engineer will be responsible for the ongoing maintenance, enhancement, operational support, and reliability of Nebraska's enterprise data processing framework supporting Medicaid Encounter Processing.

Responsibilities:

• Own the Scala/Spark application framework supporting Medicaid Encounter Processing
• Own the Drools business rule implementation and ongoing rule maintenance
• Own enterprise data ingestion processes for master data and source system files
• Own Spark and Hive batch processing workflows
• Own production issue investigation and application defect resolution
• Own production releases, version management, and deployment coordination
• Own application performance tuning and optimization
• Own technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer
• Provide basic operational administration and monitoring of the Cloudera Data Platform while coordinating with infrastructure and cloud operations teams

Requirements:

• Minimum 7 years of experience developing enterprise-scale distributed data processing applications
• Strong hands-on development experience with Scala
• Experience developing applications using Apache Spark 2.x and/or Spark 3.x
• Experience developing and maintaining applications running on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) 7.x or equivalent enterprise Hadoop distributions
• Experience with Apache Hive 3.x for data processing and Hive table management
• Experience implementing business rules using the Drools Rules Engine
• Strong SQL development and query optimization skills
• Experience supporting Linux-based production environments
• Experience troubleshooting distributed Spark applications in production
• Experience using Git and modern version control practices
• Medicaid or healthcare experience
• Experience with Medicaid Encounter Processing
• Experience with Cloudera Manager, HDFS, and YARN
• Experience integrating with IBM DataStage
• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure supporting Cloudera
• Experience with Agile, Jira, and Confluence