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Job Title: Business Associate DataStage & Cloud Platform
Location: Hybrid Detroit, MI
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Business Associate DataStage & Cloud Platform with strong experience in IBM Infosphere DataStage, Cloud Pak, and DevSecOps. The candidate will play a critical role in troubleshooting, platform support, and end-to-end solution delivery across Ally s IIS architecture.
The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise in UNIX, RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes, GitLab, Terraform, AWS, and DataStage administration particularly in Grid environments. This role involves close collaboration with business teams, technical stakeholders, and cross-functional groups to ensure stable, scalable, and secure platform operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Troubleshoot complex platform issues and provide constructive, timely solutions.
- Contribute to design, coding, testing, debugging, and support of existing applications in Ally IIS architecture.
- Participate in business and technical meetings to align platform solutions with requirements.
- Monitor platform health to ensure uninterrupted business operations.
- Support environment upgrades, password changes, and connection setups.
- Conduct impact analysis for outages, upgrades, and platform changes.
- Provide platform support for DataStage projects, including UNIX and database-related activities.
- Design, develop, and implement new solutions and enhancements.
- Create and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Perform design and code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and standards.
- Develop and implement service improvements to enhance code quality and maintainability.
- Conduct performance tuning to address bottlenecks and optimize throughput.
- Create dashboards and reports as per requirements.
- Lead go-live activities, ensuring smooth deployment and cutover.
- Manage code deployments and support production release cycles.
- Ensure knowledge transfer for new interfaces and platform upgrades.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of IT experience in platform engineering, ETL, and DevSecOps.
- Strong hands-on experience in IBM Infosphere DataStage Administration (Grid experience strongly preferred).
- Proven expertise with IBM Cloud Pak for Data Administration & Development.
- Proficiency in RedHat OpenShift or Kubernetes.
- Exposure to AWS or similar cloud environments.
- Experience with GitLab, Terraform, or equivalent DevSecOps stack.
- Strong UNIX/Linux background.
- Demonstrated ability to support and troubleshoot production systems with high availability.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional teams.