About the Company
Whize, a subsidiary of the Neurones Group (7,000 employees in France), is a specialized consultancy focused on Data Intelligence and custom cloud-native solution development using serverless architectures on Azure and AWS. The company operates through three key areas of expertise: Modern BI, providing interactive dashboards and data integration using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, and Azure Data Factory; Data Engineering, delivering scalable and reliable data processing pipelines with Python; and Cloud-Native Development, designing applications with modern technologies like .NET, Java, Node.js, and Python using native cloud services and DevOps best practices.
About the Role
The Big Data Consultant – Hadoop / Spark will play a key role in designing, automating, and optimizing data flows across Whize’s big data platforms. The position focuses on developing distributed data processing solutions, ensuring data quality, and maintaining performance at scale. This hybrid role, based in Neuilly-sur-Seine with remote flexibility, offers the opportunity to contribute to high-value data projects within a collaborative and innovation-driven environment.
Responsibilities
- Automate data provisioning within a Big Data platform based on Hadoop and Spark.
- Design and enhance distributed data processing workflows to optimize ingestion and transformation.
- Maintain and fine-tune existing batch and streaming jobs for performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Evolve the data model to meet business requirements and align with big data architectural best practices.
- Monitor platform services including data quality, integration, availability, and resource consumption.
- Participate in platform migration and upgrade initiatives to adopt new technologies.
- Test and propose new tools or frameworks to improve data performance, governance, and security.
Required Skills
- Proven experience in Big Data projects.
- Strong technical understanding of Hadoop and Spark ecosystems (batch and streaming).
- Proficiency in Java or Scala for distributed data processing development.
- Advanced SQL skills and experience with query optimization.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and their data services.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform or Ansible) is a plus.
- Awareness of data security, governance, and performance optimization best practices.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model based in Neuilly-sur-Seine with remote flexibility.
- Work in a human-sized company backed by a large, established group.
- Direct collaboration with over 100 clients, including major enterprise accounts.
- Direct mentorship and management from the CEO of Whize.
- Dynamic and supportive start-up atmosphere with room for career growth.
- Regular internal events focused on tech, business, and innovation.
- High-value projects with strong professional development opportunities.