Big Data Developer freelance jobs (remote only)

With technological progress, infrastructure development for analysis of Big Data, and expanding the accessibility of data, Big Data Software Developer's role becomes increasingly significant. Big Data is considered to be a powerful technology that helps businesses get valuable insights and use those to address numerous consumer-focused needs.

Initially, a freelance Big Data Software Developer evolved from a database administrator, a data architect, or a data analyst. Thus, Big Data Developer jobs may often include a mixture of responsibilities from all these areas. Still, mostly Big Data in-house developers cope with dataset modeling, optimizing data storage, creating data pipelines, and programming Big Data execution.

Core skills and technologies typical for Big Data Developer freelance jobs

While this role is highly paid and desirable for many contenders, what does it take to be a rockstar Big Data Software Developer? Here's the list of skills and technologies, required in most Big Data Developer freelance jobs:

• Hands-on machine learning approaches
• Experience in working with databases
• Proficiency in several programming languages
• (i.e., ideally, a Java Big Data Developer needs to have hands-on Python, etc.)
• Knowledge of Hadoop, the open-source compendium of libraries
• Substantive expertise in Apache tools: Kafka, Spark, and Hive
• High competence in cloud computing

Big Data developers running for senior-level roles, also need to have under their belt:

• Strong knowledge of code review process, release strategy, and other essential software development practices
• Proficiency in Big Data general and serialization
• Understanding of data formats, compression, codecs, and splitability
• Hands-on Big Data ecosystem key technologies: HDFS, Spark, Kafka
• being competent in cloud services: Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform, Azure

What you will do as a Big Data Developer

Typically Big Data Developer freelance jobs indicate the following set of responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining the complete data management and processing systems
• Hand-picking and implementing enlisted Big Data tools
• Managing ETL (Extract, Transform & Load) process
• Observing the performance of current infrastructure and planning of all the future upgrades
• Building data models allowing to reduce systems complexity and cost, and make it more efficient
• Ensuring the systems is highly scalable, robust and fault-tolerant
• Establishing data retention policies and coping with all the questions about Big Data security

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