Senior Big Data Engineer

Publishers Clearing House (PCH), with offices in Long Island, New York City, Boston and Portland, ME, is a leading interactive media company offering a broad range of commerce products, digital entertainment and services to consumers and advertisers.

PCH is currently looking for an energetic, high-performing Senior Engineer with extensive hands on experience to join our Big Data team team. Our vision is to become the most respected big data practitioner in the industry and to leapfrog our competition. We invite you to be part of the journey if you are up to the challenge. You will be joining an extremely talented team of entrepreneurs, to build and run world-class Hadoop clusters with state-of-art technologies.

* Demonstrated experience in architecture, engineering and implementation of enterprise-grade production big data use cases. * Extensive knowledge about Hadoop Architecture and HDFS. * Hands on experience in MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Java, HBase, Solr, and the following Hadoop eco-system products: Sqoop, Flume, Oozie, Storm, Spark, and/or Kaftka. * Hands on delivery experience working on popular Hadoop distribution platforms like Cloudera, HortonWorks or MapR. * Hands on experience in architectural design and solution implementation of large scale Big Data use cases. * Understanding of industry patterns for big data solutions. * Demonstrated experience in working with the vendor(s) and user communities to research and testing new technologies to enhance the technical capabilities of existing Hadoop cluster. * Demonstrated experience in working with Hadoop architect and big data users to implement new Hadoop eco-system technologies to support multi-tenancy cluster. * Understanding of NoSQL technologies. * Shell Scripting, Python, Java and/or C/C++ programming experience.

* 3+ years of solution architecture in Hadoop * Strong ability to drive complex technical solutions deployed at an enterprise level; ability to drive big data technology adoption and changes through education and partnership with stakeholders * Negotiate, resolve, and prioritize complex issues and provide explanations and information to others on difficult issues * Estimate and organize own work to meet or negotiate deadlines - lead / facilitate the creation of estimates * Self-starter who can work with minimal guidance but strong communication