ETL Developer- T-SQL

ETL Developer
Austin Texas (At least 2 days in the office)
6 Months Contract General Description:
Performs highly advanced (senior-level) ETL development work as part of a team on the Data Conversion Project.
Client has embarked on a multi-year project to convert data from their legacy PeopleSoft system to a cloud solution. The ETL development work will be extracting data from an Oracle database and transforming/loading it to an in-house SQL Server database. Extensive T-SQL skills will be key to the process.
Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
Performs advanced ETL development work on data primarily residing in SQL Server
Translates rules provided by PeopleSoft developers (Oracle based) into efficient T-SQL scripts to load data into the target database on SQL Server
Troubleshoots, supports and maintains the ETL processes developed by the team
Designs, deploys, and manages standardized, centralized data sources
Helps to establish best practices for development, testing, migration and error handling of the ETL activities
Performs other duties as assigned
Other Duties and Responsibilities:
May interact with outside vendors
Essential Work Behaviors:
Impeccable written and oral communication
Communicates respectfully and works harmoniously with all co-workers, customers, and vendors.
Provides exceptional customer service.
Is flexible; able to work under pressure and; able to adapt to change; and able to work on multiple problems and tasks.
Takes initiative to prevent and solve problems.
Qualification Requirements
Education/Special Requirements:
Bachelor s degree in computer science, engineering, or related business field.
Experience and Training
Three (3) years of hands on experience in T-SQL and SSIS/SSMS development
Three (3) years of hands on experience in ETL development
Three (3) years of hands on experience moving and manipulating large data sets
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in health/life insurance, accounting and financials, or investment data related activities
Experience with data tools (i.e. Visual Studio, SSIS, MSSQL )
Experience with Azure and agile iterations
Experience with ERP applications (i.e. PeopleSoft, etc.)
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Uses all knowledge, skills, and abilities to apply critical thinking to all aspects of the job. Critical thinking is a process of forming reasoned opinions through observation, information collection, interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, and other skills necessary to successfully meet performance standards of the job.
Experience with PeopleSoft HRMS or Finance packages preferred
Experience with ERD Modeling & Maintenance
Knowledge of RDBMS architecture and troubleshooting is desirable.
Knowledge of data mining methods