Big Data Tech Lead (EU Remote)

This is a remote position.

ClearScale  (headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA) -  AWS Premier Consulting Partner  has been offering a full range of professional cloud computing services for  over 10 years , including architecture design, DevOps automation, refactoring and cloud-native applications development, integration, migration, solving all sorts of security issues (from just a security check to preventing cyber-attacks) and 24/7 technical support using the best advanced technology.

• We were the  third company  to gain a new  AWS competence:   Applied AI and Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) . Less than 15 partners   have this competency!
  


• We have obtained the status in the  Database Freedom program  (less than 20 companies   in)
  


• Proven expertise as a  Managed Services Provider  (less than   16 companies in). This means that  ClearScale  can perform full cycle consultancy and service: from audits, system or software development to the 24/7 support. You can read more about this on the company page -  Managed Services.
  

Our projects

ClearScale has completed over 1000 projects, implemented for all sorts of businesses: from  SMB companies to Fortune-500 IT giants. You could expect to get experience working with multitude business domains, industries, and technologies.

• Data Analytics is building Data Lakes, and Lake Houses with a variety of technologies, such as EMR, Glue, Athena, Redshift, Aurora, Neptune, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, etc.
  
• ML/AI projects are based on scrupulous data analysis, hypothesis formulation, and rigid model quality checks using the latest packaged SageMaker or custom ML models and frameworks.
  
• We empower IoT companies with technologies like IoT Core, IoT SiteWise, LoRaWAN, and extensive data analytics.
  

• Assisting Team Lead in technological supervision of projects: code reviews, solving technological challenges, clarifying business requirements
  
• Assisting Team Lead, Pre-Sales Architect in LOE estimation and scope clarification for the prospective customers (participate in writing SOWs, as a minor contributor, Consulted)
  
• Framing the problem to maximize business impact
  
• Setting expectations for success
  
• Specifying and prioritizing projects from vague requirements
  
• Planning and managing the technological part of projects
  
• Striking a balance between trade-offs
  
• Clarifying business context of opportunities
  
• Operating in customers’ best interest
  
• Delivering knowledge confidently
  
• Taking responsibility for enterprise value
  
• Exhibiting positivity and tenacity to work through failures
  
• Being curious and collaborative in incident response
  

Required skills and experience

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in technological supervision of projects: code reviews, solving technological challenges, clarifying business requirements
  
• Assisting in LOE estimation and scope clarification for the prospective customer
  
• Framing the problem to maximize business impact
  
• Specifying and prioritizing projects from vague requirements
  
• Planning and managing the technological part of projects
  
• Clarifying business context of opportunities
  

Required skills and experience:

ClearScale expects a successful candidate to have most of the following qualifications and skills (not necessary all have to be presented):

• 1+ years of technological supervision experience (mentoring/supervising 1-2 Engineers) in the delivery
  

• 3+ years experience in writing analytical SQL queries
  
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with some of the AWS Data Analytics services (EMR, Glue, Athena, Redshift etc.)
  
• 3+ years of Java/Scala or Python data-related development
  
• 1+ years of Hadoop or Spark
  
• English B2 or better (spoken and written)
  

Additionally, it would make us smile even more if you have:

• Experience in Pre-Sales work from the angle of technological estimates, scope clarifications
  
• Experience in orchestration frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Step Functions)
  
• Experience in streaming analytics solutions (Kinesis, Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming)
  
• Experience in CDC, Delta Lakes
  
• IaaC experience, such as AWS CDK, Terraform, Cloudformation
  

Benefits

We offer

# 1 Fair wage

• 100% Remote position
• High hourly rate in USD
  
• Full-time, 40 hours per week contract
  
• Payments every 2 weeks
  
• Annual Rate Review
  

# 2 Professional Development

• Work with innovative Silicon Valley companies and traditional American companies at the cutting edge of digital transformation
  
• We work with the newest technologies in AWS cloud and open-source tools like Jira, Confluence, Lucidchart, Slack etc
  
• We operate in an honest and competitive environment and we are one of the AWS's top 10 key partners.
  
• The team willing to share its experience
  
• Paid AWS certifications: we provide training material, paid time off and examination itself
  
• Horizontal and vertical career growth - We keep growing and people keep growing with us