Title: Senior Associate Engineer (KAFKA)
Location: Bethesda, MD
Position: Contract
Rate: Open

Description:-
• SPARK (or any other stream processing framework like Flume but SPARK & SPARK Streaming preferred)
• Elastic Search (any other search engine will work too like Solr and Lucidworks but ElasticSearch is highly preferred over others)
• KAFKA (or other evening / messaging systems like Rabbit MQ etc. but KAFKA will be highly preferred)
• No SQL database (Couchbase, Mongo etc. but Couchbase highly preferred over others).
• Akka based micro services implementation
• Experience with architecture and developing enterprise applications that deal with data processing; no front-end implementation experience desired.
• Applicant should be able to set up the tech stack locally, think through the solution options specifically from a faster data processing standpoint, and guide a set of developers on low level design.
• Applicant should be able to work with disparate enterprise teams to gauge requirements and convert them into scalable application design.
• Working with the offshore team creating design elements, guiding them on the application design based on requirements, and reviewing their deliverables.
• Experience with other big data technologies is not needed but a data processing mindset is mandatory. This is not a web application developer role.