Data Engineer with Java & Scala
San Jose, CA, United States
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- Pay not listedSimilar roles state $127K–$190K
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What you’ll work on
Full postingGather and process raw data at scale, including scripts, web scraping and API calls
Work with the engineering team to integrate and build algorithms
Turn unstructured data into analysis-ready form and analyze it
Build and maintain validated predictive models
Run ad hoc analysis to support business decisions
From the employer’s posting
Gather and process raw data at scale (including writing scripts, web scraping, calling APIs, write SQL queries, etc.)
Work closely with our engineering team to integrate and build algorithms
Process unstructured data into a form suitable for analysis – and then do the analysis.
Establish and maintain effective processes for validating and updating predictive models
Support business decisions with ad hoc analysis as needed
What you’ll bring
All qualificationsCore experience
- 8+ years of experience in Java, Python and Scala
- Spark and machine learning experience (3+ years)
- Big Data experience
- Data mining and data analysis
Qualification wording
8+ years exp in Java, Python and Scala
With Spark and Machine Learning (3+)
Big Data experience
Data mining, Data analysis
Tools in this posting
- Java
- Python
- Scala
- SQL
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• Big Data experience • 8+ years exp in Java, Python and Scala • With Spark and Machine Learning (3+)
Responsibilities • Gather and process raw data at scale (including writing scripts, web scraping, calling APIs, write SQL queries, etc.). • Work closely with our engineering team to integrate and build algorithms
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Report an errorOpen 3 monthsWe first saw this posting 118 days ago and it is still up. Roles open this long are often slow to fill or kept open to collect applications.
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- Oct 29, 2026
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- Aug 18, 2017
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Job description
Job Description
Data Engineer
San Jose, CA
3 +(with possibility of extension)
• Big Data experience
• 8+ years exp in Java, Python and Scala
• With Spark and Machine Learning (3+)
• Data mining, Data analysis
• Data mining, Data analysis
Secondary Skills
• Data mining, Data analysis
Responsibilities
• Gather and process raw data at scale (including writing scripts, web scraping, calling APIs, write SQL queries, etc.).
• Work closely with our engineering team to integrate and build algorithms
• Process unstructured data into a form suitable for analysis – and then do the analysis.
• Support business decisions with ad hoc analysis as needed
• Extract data from a variety of relational databases, manipulate, explore data using quantitative, statistical and visualization tools
• Inform the selection of appropriate modeling techniques to ensure that predictive models are developed using rigorous statistical processes
• Establish and maintain effective processes for validating and updating predictive models
• Analyze, model, and forecast health service utilization patterns/ trends and create capability to model outcomes of what-if scenarios for novel health care delivery models
• Collaborate with internal business, analytics and data strategy partners to improve efficiency and increase applicability of predictive models into the core software products
• Perform statistical analysis to prioritize in order to maximize success
• Identify areas for improvement, communicating action plans
• Perform strategic data analysis and research to support business needs
• Identify opportunities to improve productivity via sophisticated statistical modeling
• Explore data to identify opportunities to improve business results
• Develop understanding of business processes, goals and strategy in order to provide analysis and interpretation to management
• Gain understanding of business needs and necessary analysis where appropriate through internal discussion
Additional Information
Regards
Amit Singh
703-291-8188
Company Description
Comtech is a woman-owned small business founded in 1998 and headquartered in Reston, VA. We offer IT solutions across the disciplines of program/project management, applications development, infrastructure, Cyber security, and enterprise content/data management services. We have developed our methodologies and processes based on the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v.3 Framework across enterprise infrastructure operations. These methodologies and processes are reinforced through our organization’s externally accredited certifications, which include ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (QMS), ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 IT Service Management Systems (SMS, corporate ITIL certification), ISO 27001:2005 Information Security Management System (ISMS), and CMMI-DEV Level 3"
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