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Software Engineer
Boston, MA
Job # INF004142
The Software Engineer is responsible for leveraging the content and capabilities of our growing Hadoop based platform to address unmet business needs. This is a hands-on position that leverages Web and Big Data technologies in our Cloud-based architectures as well as in-house datacenters.
The Software Engineer provides engineering leadership for one or more concurrent software development projects executed by small software development teams (about 5-10 people), from the conception of the project up to the deployment of the solutions.
This position is with the Scientific Computing team within the Informatics/EDDS IT organization.
The key activities for this position include:
- Develop self-contained micro-analytics on a Hadoop based platform.
- Develop product features and fixes following an Agile methodology.
- Participate on bi-weekly sprint planning meetings, daily scrum meetings, and bi-weekly sprint close up meetings.