Ab Initio Developer

Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust

Location: Woodlawn, MD

Job Type: Full-Time

Target Salary Range*: $100,000 - $180,000.

• This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary

Position Overview:

Strong experience with designing, developing, and maintaining Extract Transform Load (ETL) pipelines and data integration solutions using the Ab Initio tools suite

Key Responsibilities:

• Strong experience in design, building and testing graphs and ETL applications using Ab Initio 4. Familiarity with the Ab Initio tool suite and Unix/Linux environments.
• Strong experience in enterprise-complexity ETL solutions using Ab-initio suite including products such as GDE>Co-Operating System, Express>IT, Data Quality Environment (DQE), Continuous Flows, Amazon S3 utilities.
• Strong knowledge of Ab Initio lifecycle analysis, designs, implementation, and code migration.
• Design ETL Framework for an audit and data reconciliation to manage batch and real time interfaces.
• Develop ETL jobs for automation, monitoring and responsible for job performance optimization using ETL development tools or custom developed procedures.
• Strong experience with SQL, mapping, and integration of relational databases such as DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Greenplum
• Experience automating the loading of data from multiple sources into BI/MI systems.
• Working knowledge with analyzing and developing optimal code to maintain high performance for processing large volumes of data.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to project teams and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver effective search features.
• Prepare and maintain comprehensive technical documentation and deliver knowledge transfer sessions to SSA staff.
• Ensure compliance with SSA security, privacy, and data management policies.
• Brief management, customer, team, or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience.
• Provide guidance/support to other junior/mid-level developers.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field.
• Masters or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience

Experience:

• 10+ years as a software developer with Ab Initio experience

Skills:

• Experience identifying requirements, researching options, designing, and implementing solutions at a leadership level on project work.
• Experience scripting in a Linux environment to automate ETL solutions and data migration jobs.
• Experience with data warehousing designs/concepts such as star and snowflake schemas.
• Understand and apply quality techniques and practices (automated unit testing, Test Driven Design/Development, performance analysis, continuous integration)
• Ability to assist with architectural tactical thinking, information solutions and road maps to drive architectural recommendations.
• Excellent communication and written skills.
• Detail oriented and committed to consistently completing repetitive production-like tasks on-time and error-free.
• Prior experience working in a federal agency or public sector environment.
• Ability to independently research problems and provide solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience identifying requirements, researching options, designing, and implementing solutions at a leadership level on project work.
• Experience scripting in a Linux environment to automate ETL solutions and data migration jobs.
• Experience with data warehousing designs/concepts such as star and snowflake schemas.
• Understand and apply quality techniques and practices (automated unit testing, Test Driven Design/Development, performance analysis, continuous integration)
• Ability to assist with architectural tactical thinking, information solutions and road maps to drive architectural recommendations.
• Experience with modern development software, tools, and methodologies.
• Experience working on Agile projects and understanding Agile terminology.