We are seeking a Senior Ab Initio Developer who will be responsible for orchestrating, deploying, maintaining and scaling cloud OR on-premise infrastructure targeting big data and platform data management (Relational and NoSQL, distributed and converged) with emphasis on reliability, automation and performance. This role will focus on developing solutions and helping transform the company's platforms deliver data-driven, meaningful insights and value to company.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1) Work with Business Analysts and Product team to gather data requirements
2) Design and Build AbInitio data graphs and data pipelines to extract the data various databases/flat files/message queues
3) Transform the data to create a consumable data layer for various application uses
4) Support Data pipeline with bug fixes, and additional enhancements
5) Document Technical design , Operational Runbook etc

We are seeking candidates that reside in one of the following states - Wash DC, Virginia, Maryland or West Virginia - as occassional onsite meetings will occur in Reston VA.

Required Skills

- Total of 10+ Years of IT Experience predominantly in Data Integration/ Data Warehouse area
- Must have at least 5 years of ETL Design and Development experience using Ab Initio
- 1-2 years of Data Integration project experience on Hadoop Platform, preferably Cloudera
- AbInitio CDC ( Change Data Capture ) experience in a Data Integration/ETL project setting is great to have
- Working knowledge of HDFS, Hive, Impala and other related Hadoop technologies
- Working knowledge in various AWS services is nice to have
- Sound understanding of SQL and ability to write well performing SQL queries
- Good knowledge of OLTP and OLAP data models and other data warehouse fundamentals
- Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices, ability to write reusable code components
- Ability to unit test the code thoroughly and to troubleshoot issues in production environments
- Must have some working experience with Unix/Linux shell scripting
- Must be able to work independently and support other junior developers as needed
- Some Java development experience is nice to have
- Knowledge of Agile Development practices is required