Ab Initio Developer Job Description

Role

Ab Initio Developer is responsible for giving team status on a variety of projects. Their focus is to escalate an issue as necessary, assess and communicate risks to the development schedule and project to represent the data integration development team’s interests in cross-functional project teams by ensuring project success as an ultimate goal.

Responsibilities

Monitor and Support existing production data pipelines developed in AB Initio
Analysis of highly complex business requirements, designs and/or data requires evaluation of intangible variance factors
Debug daily production issues and rerun the jobs after understanding the issues
Collaborate throughout the organisation on effective identification of technical issues
Participates and provides feedback in design reviews
Complete component design documents on assigned projects
Participate and provide feedback in design reviews

Requirements

1.5+ years of actual development experience building ETL applications/processes using SAS
Relevant years of Hands-on experience with Ab Initio and Hadoop technologies (HDFS, HIVE, Impala etc)
Need to have good understanding of ETL concepts like Informatica, Data stage, Clover ETL
Experience in Relational Databases like Oracle, SQL Server and PL/SQL
Understanding of Agile methodologies as well as SDLC life-cycles and processes.
Experience in writing Technical, Functional documentation

Soft Skills

Ability to work as an individual with minimal guidance/support
Strong communication/team skills
Strong analytical skills

Bonus

Experience in technologies such as Java, J2EEE, CTL-M, XML, PERL, Messaging, Informatica is a plus
Great to have hands-on experience on Hadoop (Ab initio on Hadoop)