ETL/Ab-Initio Developer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for an ETL/Ab-Initio Developer for a Direct Placement assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Irving, TX.

Responsibilities:
ISG is looking for a senior developer with 5+ years of experience in designing and delivering ETL solutions on Reference Data Team focused on expanding and maintaining firm centralized reference data platform used by Capital Markets division of ICG. This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to join a team working for one of the world's largest financial institutions in support of Information Services Group systems (ISG). Security Master Central(SMC) and securities reference data are global reference data management application responsible for sourcing securities/Events and pricing data from market vendors and internal Firm sources and providing it to downstream clients after applying client specific rules. Responsible for working with global ETL developers in NAM ,EMEA and India(APAC) and will be responsible for the deliverables, provide architectural guidance, enforce best Firm practices, conduct code reviews, build support processes, and address production outages. Interaction will be required with global development team comprising of Business Analysts and work with vendor teams to coordinate and manage deliverables.

• Work directly with global application development teams, Operations teams/partners to successfully integrate.
• Will work with team and manage deliverables, provide architectural guidance, enforce best Firm practices, conduct code reviews, build support processes, and serve as escalation point during production outages.
• Keep up to date with new technologies and their possible adoption within ISG
• Work on streamlining processes and work closely with other team members, onsite and remote to ensure consistent approach to development/process is used within the application.
• Work with vendor teams to Coordinate and manage key projects.s.
• The successful candidate will have an excellent opportunity to extend their current role and responsibility into Strategic Reference Data initiatives
• Candidate will also get the chance to work with Global tech leads in other project initiative
• The candidate will work with complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact, weighing various alternatives and balancing potentially conflicting needs.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Knowledge and experience of managing reference data systems.
• Knowledge of Securities and Events data.
• Proven proficiency in dealing with complex technical issues across all aspects of the project lifecycle
• Strong command of ETL architecture and Tools (Abinitio and Talend), and working with relational databases
• Experience of working in a demanding and results driven, time critical environment
• All potential candidates must be able to work in a dynamic team environment which includes working and managing teams on different technologies (such as Java, Web Services and C#/.NET) and across multiple regions
• Ab Initio GDE and Co> Op (Continuous, Batch, Plans)
• Data Stage
• Spark
• UNIX/Linux Shell scripting
• Oracle concepts, SQL, PL/SQL
• SQL performance tuning
• Autosys
• Requires excellent Interpersonal skills to interact with Business and project management stakeholders globally
• Ability to think Out of the box for any given business requirement
• Act as a change agent to drive innovation

Preferred Skills:

• Master's degree
• Data modeling
• Tibco EMS and other message-oriented middleware
• XML/XSD/XSLT
• Web Services
• Java SE
• Prior industry experience with Reference Data
• Java EE: Servlets, JSP and EJB
• Cobol copybook
• EAI

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