Consultants function as integrator between business needs and technology solutions, helping to create technology solutions to meet clients’ business needs. Consultants gain exposure to multiple industries while demonstrating an awareness of the full breadth of services offered by Deloitte Consulting LLP.

Responsibilities include defining systems strategy, developing system requirements, designing, prototyping, and testing custom technology solutions, and supporting system implementation.

Big Data Consultant candidates are required to have:

1+ year of relevant technology architecture consulting or industry experience to include experience in Information delivery, Analytics and Business Intelligence based on data from hybrid of Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), non-relational (NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra) and relational Data Warehouses

At least 1 year hands-on working experience with one or more of the following technologies: Hadoop, Mahout, Pig, Hive, HBase, Sqoop, Zookeeper, Ambari, MapReduce and R.

Bachelor’s Degree or 4 years equivalent professional experience

Willingness to travel to client locations (80%+, typically M-TH)

In addition, successful Big Data Consultants will also have the following preferred skills:

Understanding of the benefits of data warehousing, data architecture, data quality processes, data warehousing design and implementation, table structure, fact and dimension tables, logical and physical database design, data modeling, reporting process metadata, and ETL processes

Experience designing and implementing reporting and visualization for unstructured and structured data sets

Experience designing and developing data cleansing routines utilizing typical data quality functions involving standardization, transformation, rationalization, linking and matching

Knowledge of data, master data and metadata related standards, processes and technology

Experience working with multi-Terabyte data sets

Experience working with commercial distributions of HDFS (Hortonworks, Cloudera, Pivotal HD, MapR)

Experience with Hadoop Cluster Administration

Experience with Data Integration on traditional and Hadoop environments

Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments.

Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint).

Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment.

An advanced degree in the area of specialization is preferred.