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Job Description

Position: Cloud Platform Engineer Lead Consultant (Northbrook, Illinois). Position is fully remote and can be performed from anywhere in the United States.

Duties: Lead efforts of medium to high complexity and track delivery of Big Data platforms to make decisions, including the development and recommendation of new Big Data systems for analyzing data. Perform coding and development of advanced analytics solutions to make/optimize business decisions and processes. Integrate new tools with existing and emerging Big Data hardware and software to improve descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. Contribute to the structured and unstructured Big Data / Data Science tools. Partner with peers to ensure holistic Big Data solutions for data science community and analytics users. Identify new areas of data, research and Big Data technology that can solve business problems. Utilize effective project planning techniques to break down complex projects into tasks, manage scope of projects, and ensure deadlines are kept. Leverage, contribute to, and use Big Data best practices/lessons learned to develop technical solutions used for descriptive analytics, ETL, predictive modeling and prescriptive "real time decisions" analytics. Serve as an expert and technical leader on the effectiveness of Big Data systems to solve their business problems. Assist in the recruitment, selection, mentorship and development of other team members.

Requirements:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) & five (5) years of experience as a Cloud Platform Engineer Lead Consultant or related role developing, managing, and manipulating large, complex datasets.
• Or, alternatively, a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and seven (7) years of experience as a Cloud Platform Engineer Lead Consultant or related role developing, managing, and manipulating large, complex datasets.

Specific skills/other requirements - Experience must include:

Using Big data technologies -- Hadoop, HDFS, Yarn, Spark, Hive, and Kafka to process high volume of structured and semi-structured data;

Working with containerized technologies -- Docker and Kubernetes; and

Coding and developing prototypes in Python, Java, and SQL languages and using Maven and Jenkins build tools.

Skills

Apache Kafka, Big Data Technologies, Docker (Software), Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Hadoop YARN, Java, Jenkins (Software), Kubernetes, Maven, Python (Programming Language), Structured Query Language (SQL)

Compensation

Position is fully remote and can be performed from anywhere in the United States.

To apply, submit resume to Allstate Insurance Company, https://www.allstate.jobs/job-search-results/ Ref Position #:R23413

Salary:  $160,555.00/year

Requisition number:R23413

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

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