Ok…problem solved.
Apparently EVERY component of the Oozie Workflow/Job must have it’s corresponding *.jar dependencies uploaded to the Oozie SharedLib(/user/oozie/share/lib/) directories corresponding to those components.
I copied ALL the *.jars in /usr/lib/sqoop/lib into -> /user/oozie/share/lib I copied ALL the *.jars in the /usr/lib/oozie/lib into -> /user/oozie/share/lib/oozie
After running the job again….the workflow stalled, and the error given was different from the last one….namely that this time around….the workflow was trying to create a directory on HDFS that already existed, so I removed that directory and then ran the job again…..
SUCCESS!
Side Note: People really need to write better exception messages. If this was just an issue a few people where having….then fine….but this is simply not the case. This particular error is giving more than a few people fits if the requests for help online are any indication.