· 6–8 years of experience in Big Data / Data Platform Engineering in enterprise environments.

· Strong hands-on experience with:

o Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, HDP)

o Apache Kafka (high-throughput environments)

o Redis and MongoDBclusters

o OpenSearch Elasticsearch

o Apache NiFi

o AWS EMR + good knowledge of AWS Cloud.

· Strong expertise in Linux system administration and scripting (Shell/Python)

· Experience with Kerberos, data security, and access governance

· Proven experience in handling high-volume, low-latency systems (preferably payments/trading)