Big Data Engineer
Date: Aug 8, 2025
Location: Istanbul, TR
Company: Vodafone
Join Us
At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.
What you’ll do
Big Data Engineer at Vodafone Turkey
• We are looking for a Big Data Engineer with experience in designing, building and managing applications to process large amounts of data in a Hadoop/ Spark ecosystem. You’ll provide expert guidance to source and integrate structured and unstructured data from dozens of local data sources including streaming data feeds into our data lake.
• As a Big Data Engineer, you will work closely with the team and our stakeholders to build and deliver our Hadoop based solutions for a next generation Big Data analytics platform.
• Working with our Data Scientists to help drive the company strategy and marketing campaigns to our customers will be one of the responsibility of you.
• At Vodafone, we don’t just produce creative products, we develop amazing people too. We are driven to empower people. We are committed to helping our people perform at their best and achieve their full potential.
Key accountabilities
• You’ll be designing and producing high performing and stable applications to perform complex processing of petabyte scale data in a Hadoop based environment.
• Working alongside Data Scientists to build end-to-end applications that make use of large volumes of source data from the operational systems and output insights back to business systems
• Building real-time data processing applications which are integrated with business systems to enable value from analytic models to drive rapid decision making
• Sourcing, ingesting, wrangling and validating data sets, building pipelines to transform data and produce analytical records for machine learning
• You’ll have extensive experience with performance tuning applications on Hadoop and configuring Hadoop based systems to maximise performance.
Who you are
Qualifications
- BS degree or higher in a technology related field (e.g. Computer Science, Math, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering or another quantitative field)
- Minimum 5 year experience in designing, building and managing applications to process large amounts of data in a (Cloudera) Hadoop ecosystem (Spark, Hive/Impala, HBase, Yarn, Oozie)
- Strong software development experience in Python(preferred), Java or Scala programming languages (other programming languages desirable);
- Experience in DevDataOps and CICD pipelines. And compliance of the coding standards.
- Experience in designing, building and managing applications to process large amounts of data in a Hadoop ecosystem
- Experience building systems to perform real-time data processing using Spark Streaming, Nifi, Flink and Kafka, or similar technologies
- Experience with Linux systems, including bash programming
- Experience with other distributed NoSQL databases such as HBASE, Cassandra, Solr/Elastic Search is a plus
- Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools (Apache Airflow, etc.).
- Building real-time data processing applications which are integrated with business systems to enable value from analytic models to drive rapid decision making
- Experience with ML and Deep Learning is a plus
- Experience with development of Cloud Native and Micro Service applications is a plus
Not a perfect fit?
Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.
What's in it for you
We like to keep them flexible:
• Vflexy: Flexible Benefits Program
• Hybrid working kit
• Ergonomic kit allowance
• Digital meal voucher
• Flexible transportation allowance.
• Employee assistance hotline & counselling
• Comprehensive and flexible private health insurance
• Discounted price deals for wide range of products & services
Plus, plenty more to enjoy!If you want to know more about us and what we do, then visit our website: www.vodafone.com.tr
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Who we are
We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.
Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.
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Together we can.