Must be the following: a student; faculty member from a higher education institution; or IBM Customer, Business Partner or IBM employee. All badge earners must be either attending or are involved in the IBM Skills Academy Program.

Received the "Big Data Engineer - Explorer Award 2018" badge.

Teaching of Module II - Big Data Engineer: Introduction to Big Data & Data Analytics; Introduction to HDP; Apache Ambari & Spark; Hadoop & HDFS; MapReduce & YARN; Storing & querying data; ZooKeeper, Slider & Knox, Loading data with Sqoop; Security & Governance; Stream Computing, Data Science Open Source Tools, Getting started with Jupyter; Using Big SQL to access data in HDFS; Configuring Big SQL...

Teaching the course under the supervision of a qualified instructor, and receiving teaching approval from the supervising instructor.

Delivering the training to at least 15 university students, faculty members, and/or professionals, and having 60% of the audience pass the final exam.