Senior Manager Big Data Administration

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Senior Manager Big Data Administration
Full-time
Company Description
When youre one of us, you get to run with the best. For decades, weve been helping marketers from the worlds top brands personalize experiences for millions of people with our cutting-edge technology, solutions and services. Epsilons best-in-class identity gives brands a clear, privacy-safe view of their customers, which they can use across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions. We process 400 billion consumer actions each day and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon India is now Great Place to Work-Certified. Epsilon has also been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC. Positioned at the core of Publicis Groupe, Epsilon is a global company with more than 8,000 employees around the world. For more information, visit epsilon.com/apac or our LinkedIn page.
Job Description
About BU
At the heart of everything we do is data and this team. Our premium data assets empower the team to drive desirable outcomes for leading brands across industries. Armed with high volumes of transactional data, digital expertise and unmatched data quality, the team plays a key role in improving all our product offerings. Our data artisans are keen on embracing the latest in technology and trends, so theres always room to grow and something new to learn here.
Why we are looking for you?
Epsilon is a leading provider of multi-channel marketing services, technologies and database solutions. Epsilon is seeking a Sr Manager of Big Data Administration with a balance of managerial and technical skills to work out of our Bengaluru, India location and oversee a team of Big Data Administrators and Data Warehouse and implementing and supporting solutions running on premise or cloud for Database Marketing clients.
What will you enjoy in this role?
Seeking a highly motivated and well-rounded Manager for Big Data Administration with combination of Tech skills and people management. Someone who is strong on Leadership and developing good professional relationships
What will you do?
Manage, mentor and coach a team of up to 10 Database and Big Data and Administrators
Working exposure handling sizeable volume (in Gbs) of data
Perform hands-on Big Data Administration on several client engagements.
Participate in gathering requirements and contribute to the architecture design of Big Data client solutions for Marketing and Analytics
Be proficient in cluster administration tasks including patching, upgrades, backup and recovery, troubleshooting, performance diagnostics and tuning, and SQL optimization.
Hands-on experience monitoring and reporting on Hadoop resource utilization and troubleshooting.
Hands-on experience supporting code deployments (Spark, Hive, Kafka etc.) into the Hadoop cluster.
Experience in administration of Hadoop Big Data tools --experience working on batch processing and tools in the Hadoop technical stack (e.g., MapReduce, Yarn, Hive, presto, HDFS, Oozie)
Knowledge on MPP/DW appliance database like Greenplum, Teradata etc
Possess knowledge in replication to Disaster Recovery site, data encryption, backup storage and archiving procedures.
Work with client teams in the support of development and deployment of Big Data and database jobs
Work closely with IT, developers and competency teams to ensure that applications availability and performance are within agreed on service levels.
Contribute to structures design, capacity and cluster expansion planning.
Research and recommend automated approaches to Big Data and DW solution administration.
Enforce standards and best practices for availability, security, backup and recovery.
Contribute to developing and documenting Big Data and DW standards, guidelines and operational procedures.
Evaluate Big Data and DW technologies and Cloud Services and recommend to technical management.
Perform a variety of tasks relying on experience and judgment to manage time, plan and accomplish goals on several projects.
Manage on-call rotation for 24 x 7 x 365 support.
Qualifications
10 years of general technology experience (preferably database administration)
B.S. in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent work experience required. Hadoop and/or AWS certification is a plus.
At least 3 years of experience managing Data Warehousing solutions on Netezza, Teradata, Greenplum, Vertica or similar.
4 experience managing technical teams.
Cloud Data Warehouse database technologies AWS Redshift is must and Snowflake is a plus
Knowledge of Hadoop and or Big Data cloud services such AWS EMR or Cloudera
Ability to diagnose problems and resolve issues across various tiers (application, database, network)
Strong UNIX/Linux knowledge and understanding of DW MPP architecture, technologies and concepts.
Adherence to SDLC, Change Management, troubleshooting and development methodologies.
Strong leadership and inter-personal skills to manage and mentor direct reports.
Superb analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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