Big Data Engineer at Equifax Inc. in Alpharetta, Georgia

Job Description:

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy and driven Big Data Engineer in Test with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and operate high scale applications across the full engineering stack.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software.
• Apply modern software development practices (serverless computing, microservices architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, etc.)
• Work across teams to integrate our systems with existing internal systems, Data Fabric, CSA Toolset.
• Participate in technology roadmap and architecture discussions to turn business requirements and vision into reality. Participate in a tight-knit, globally distributed engineering team.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on network, or service operations and quality.
• Research, create, and develop software applications to extend and improve on Equifax Solutions. Manage sole project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Collaborate on scalability issues involving access to data and information. Actively participate in Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years experience writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code in mainstream Java, SpringBoot
• 5+ years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure
• 5+ years experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions
• 5+ years experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes
• 5+ years experience deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs
• Additional and proven experience as a Test Engineer and/or Data Engineer (preferred focus on GCP environments & emphasis on GCP services related to big data like BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub).
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools and frameworks, preferrably in a GCP context.
• Solid experience with software QA methodologies, tools, and processes, specifically in a cloud-based environment.

• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.
• Experience designing and developing big data processing solutions (Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, or other related tools)
• UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, Angular and Bootstrap)
• Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA and Microservices
• Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.
• Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)
• Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)
• Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github)
• Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+)
• Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI

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