Sr. Ab Initio Developer - SME3
The responsibilities of this position may include: (Dev/Admin)
Administration of the Ab Initio Co>Operating system (versions 3.16 and 3.25), Enterprise Meta>Environment (EME), and the Data Profiling Tool on UNIX Sun Solaris servers.
Administration of Ab Initio project directories, data directories and the standard environment on UNIX Sun Solaris servers.
Design, development, testing, and implementation of Ab Initio graphs and korn shell scripts.
Maintenance on UNIX shell scripting for moving Ab Initio code from one UNIX environment to another and purging data over 30 days old from the UNIX Sun Solaris servers
Maintenance of UNIX shell scripting for creating project directories on the UNIX System Services side of Mainframe.
Guidance for best practices with regard to development of Ab Initio graphs.
Peer Reviews for development of Ab Initio graphs.
Guidance for best practices with regard to Data warehouse design using Oracle for Ab Initio applications.
Guidance for best practices with regard to Operational Data Stores using DB2 for Ab Initio applications.
Design documentation for recommended application improvements.
Writing procedural and lessons learned documents.
Providing technical mentoring and training to the customer.
On-call after-hours technical support.
Skills Requirements:
Skills:
Required:
Experience as an Ab Initio administrator including experience building and upgrading servers, installing and maintaining Ab Initio software.
Minimum of 11 years of Ab Initio experience with the GDE, Metadata Repository, and Data Profiling Tool.
Six or more years of experience developing Ab Initio software in an enterprise environment
Experience in defining Ab Initio best practices.
Should be able to understand the current design, review the code and suggest best design in Ab Initio.
Experience in SUN Solaris processing environment.
Expertise in UNIX and shell scripting.
Experience in UNIX Systems Services on mainframe.
Desired:
2-3 years of successfully demonstrated work experience using Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, and SQL*Loader.
Knowledge of Ab Initio Public and Private sandbox and Parallelism concepts.
Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
Experience in Database Design.
Strong knowledge and use of Business Intelligence (BI)/Data Warehouse (DW) development methodologies, standards, and procedures.
Education:
Bachelor's degree or higher in Information Technology field +11 years IT-specific experience.