@Imtiaz Yousaf /Other people who are reading this. This issue was resolved by removing hive-site.xml from below locations: 1. oozie sharelib (it was present at multiple locations in oozie sharelib) 2. from ${wf.application.path}/lib/ directory. 3. From workflow.xml (removed <job-xml> part) By default Oozie takes this file from /etc/oozie/conf/action-conf/hive/hive-site.xml Issue has been resolved! 🙂 ... View more