DataStage Engineer

Job Title: DataStage Engineer

Location: Cincinnati, OH Onsite

Duration: 7+ Months with possible extensions

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 3:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern time, Weekend flexibility- planned weekend hours for one weekend in June, July and September (Labor Day Weekend) The manager mentioned that this role should be onsite at the Fifth Third center in Cincinnati. The hours may change to 1 10 PM, but he won t know for sure until later this week.

This role will provide expertise in the following areas related to DataStage:

• Advanced Troubleshooting & Incident Response: Rapid diagnosis and resolution of job failures (abends) to maintain test and production stability.
• Platform Engineering & Optimization: Monitoring and tuning of the DataStage platform performance under increased test and cutover volumes.
• Stability Assurance During Key Events: Hands-on platform oversight and issue resolution during Mock cycles, conversion weekend, and the stabilization period that follows.
• Ensuring Stable and Predictable Data Migration: Deep DataStage expertise enables proactive detection and resolution of job performance issues, bottlenecks, and abends that could impact critical conversion processing.
• Optimizing High-volume Conversion Workloads: As data volumes may significantly increase overall workload load on the platform, this role will tune and optimize DataStage jobs so they scale to meet cutover and Mock testing throughput requirements.
• Maintaining Platform Resilience During Key Events: Provide hands-on oversight during all Mock cycles, the conversion weekend, and the post go-live stabilization period, ensuring that data pipelines run without delays or failures that would impact downstream systems.
• Reducing Operational and Timeline Risk: By providing Level 3 4 engineering support, this role will fill a critical skill gap in advanced troubleshooting, root cause identification, and rapid remediation needed to prevent cascading conversion delays.
• Supporting Business Continuity Across Integrations: DataStage reliability directly impacts customer account setup, transaction history migration, downstream regulatory reporting, and product readiness all essential elements of Merge the Bank outcomes.