Lead Ab Initio Administrator

Job Description:

• This position is an Ab Initio Administrator and not a developer position.
• The Senior Ab Initio ETL Administrator is responsible for the tasks involved in the administration of the ETL tool (Ab-Initio) as well as migrating Ab Initio infrastructure to the Cloud.
• The candidate will support the implementation of a Data Integration/Data Warehouse for the Data products on-prem and in AWS Cloud, like EKS containerization for Ab Initio.

Experience:

• At least 6 to 8 years of experience with all the tasks involved in the administration of the ETL Tool (Ab Initio).
• Experienced in managing the project of migration or infrastructure build without a supervisor.
• At least 6 years of experience with advanced knowledge of Ab Initio Graphical.
• Development Environment (GDE), Meta Data Hub, Operational Console.
• Experience with Ab Initio, AWS EKS, S3, Dynamo DB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RDS, DB2.
• Created Big Data pipelines (ETL) from on-premises to Data Factories, Data Lakes, and Cloud Storage such as EBS or S3.
• DevOps (CI/CD Pipeline) prefers Jenkins experience.
• Experience with advanced knowledge of UNIX and SQL.
• Experience with managing the metadata hub-MDH, Operational Console, and troubleshooting environmental issues that affect these components.
• Experience with scripting and automation, such as designing and developing automated ETL processes and architecture, and unit testing of the ETL code.
• Experience with working on the break-fix and continuous development items, review, and inspection for the production changes.
• Perform the code review for the ETL code developed by the development team and guide them to resolve an issue.
• Demonstrated experience working in an Enterprise environment with cross-team interaction and collaboration, and policies.
• Strong testing skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiar with structured programming techniques.
• Must be able to perform assigned tasks with minimum supervision.
• Strong documentation skills.
• Experience working in an Agile environment is a plus.

Software:

• Applies and implements best practices for data auditing, scalability, reliability, and application performance.
• AWS certification is a plus.
• Extensive UNIX AIX or Linux and Scripting experience.
• Extensive SDLC experience with some development or Systems programming experience.
• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot Mid-tier/infrastructure issues.
• Very strong verbal and written communication skills (Critical).
• Ability to facilitate technical requirements gathering and design sessions.
• Collaborate and interpret business and technical needs.
• Excellent attention to detail and quality work products (Critical).
• Strong customer service skills with internal and external customers (Critical).
• Must be able to perform assigned tasks with minimum supervision (Critical).
• Strong analytical and documentation skills.
• Excellent time management ability.

Skills Preferred:

• Experience with DEVOPS or IAAS.
• AIX or Linux.
• LDAP.
• EIAM (Identity Access Management).
• Ab Initio Admin and Architect