Data & Analytics (Hadoop + Big Data)

· 14+ years of experience in Enterprise Data Architecture, Hadoop Ecosystem, Big Data Engineering, and Data Platform Modernization.
· Strong hands-on expertise in Hadoop, HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark, PySpark, Kafka, SQL, Python, Java, and Scala.
· Experience designing and implementing large-scale Big Data and Data Lake architectures supporting analytics, reporting, and AI workloads.
· Strong understanding of Hadoop platform architecture, including HDFS, YARN, high availability, cluster management, workload optimization, and scalability.
· Expertise in batch and distributed data processing using Spark, Hive, HBase, and MapReduce frameworks.
· Experience building data ingestion and streaming solutions using Kafka and Hadoop ecosystem tools.
· Strong knowledge of Data Engineering practices, including ETL/ELT, data integration, data quality, metadata management, lineage, observability, and DataOps.
· Experience with Data Lake, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Data Models, Master Data, and Data Governance frameworks. · Strong understanding of security and governance controls, including Kerberos, Ranger, encryption, privacy, auditability, compliance, and controlled data access.