Datastage Developer

The successful candidate is a self-starter that will lead a team of developers responsible for integrating data into the Teradata enterprise data warehouse by leveraging the IBM Information Server/DataStage Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) software. The candidate will participate in all phases of the development lifecycle, from inception through post-implementation support, for all types of applications consistent with established specifications and business requirements to deliver business value.

• Collaborate with technical teams to develop solutions that are reusable

• Document technical designs to ensure clients’ needs are captured

• Research, evaluate, identify alternative design and test approaches, and lead code reviews

• Develop ETL codes that meets technical specification and business requirements according to the established designs and framework

• Proactive and diligent in identifying and communicating development issues and

• recommending potential solutions

• Troubleshoot development and operational problems and provide timely solutions

• Participates in system and integration test; identifies and remedies solution defects

• Will be required to do production support of existing jobs and new jobs which are promoted to Production

• Creates other technical deliverable artifacts such as source-to-target mappings, implementation run books etc. needed for project implementation

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience with SQL, Teradata, Oracle in Unix environment

• 5+ years’ experience in developing applications in a high volume ETL DataStage environment including utilizing the following DataStage stages

o Sequential file, Complex Flat file, ABAP/IDOC stages, Remove Duplicates, Lookup, Join and Transform stages.

• 5+ years’ experience in a technical leadership role

• Strong written and verbal communications skills required; ability to lead project meetings,

• communicate with business stakeholders, and report to management

• Solid understanding of data warehousing architecture

• Attention to detail and maintaining high data quality standards

• Tivoli Work Load Scheduler and Shell Scripting (UNIX/Linux) is strongly desired