Big Data Full Stack Application Engineer / Developer at Absa

The Role

• This role provides an exciting opportunity within the Chief Technology Office - Artificial Intelligence team. The Fullstack Engineer / Developer serves as a development and support expert with a responsibility for the design, development, automation, testing, on-going support and administration, along with documentation of their delivery. The position balances a fast-paced work environment with the expectation of the completion of work activities meticulously and effectively; working independently within our highly collaborative integrated teams; creating new code with ensuring it doesn't disrupt previous versions. The ideal candidate is required to be passionate about solving complex technical problems across all levels of software architecture, development, and debugging. 

Technologies/skills:

• C#.NET, ASP.NET MVC 4+ (dotnet core a plus)
• WEB API.
• Angular  
• RESTful services
• SCSS/LESS/TypeScript - having worked with preprocessor languages
• UI charting (D3/highcharts/etc.)
• Experience with material design is a plus
• Experience with application dev in AWS is a plus
• Attention to detail for UI design
• Understanding large scale systems
• Familiar with Agile methodologies
• Experience and knowledge on CI/CD and tooling used – Azure DevOps, Jenkins

Preferred: Experience with some of the following:

• SQL, Apache Hadoop, Spark, AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, Bash, version control tools, continuous integration tools 

Candidate Description

The incumbent will have the opportunity of working directly across the firm with developers, operations staff  data scientists, architects and business constituents to develop and enhance the Big Data service.  

• Development and deployment of data applications 
• Design and Implementation of infrastructure tooling and work on horizontal frameworks and libraries
• Creation of data ingestion pipelines between legacy data warehouses and the big data stack
• Automation of application back-end workflows
• Building and maintaining backend services created by multiple services framework
• Maintain and enhance applications backed by Big Data computation applications
• Be eager to learn new approaches and technologies
• Must be a clear methodical thinker with good problem solving skills
• Strong programming skills with drive and strong work ethic
• Background in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics or equivalent
• Worked on Big Data platforms (Vanilla Hadoop, Cloudera or Hortonworks)
• Experienced and technically strong UI developer (Angular) that is backend (C#) savvy
• Preferred: Experience with Scala or other functional languages (Haskell, Clojure, Kotlin, Clean) 
• Preferred: Experience with some of the following: Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig, Oozie, ZooKeeper, MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Impala, Kudu, Linux, Bash, version control tools, continuous integration tools.