Senior Ab Initio Engineer

Job Title: Senior Ab Initio Engineer

Location: Hybrid (2 times a quarter in Reston, VA)

Purpose:

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for orchestrating, deploying, maintaining, and scaling cloud or on-premises infrastructure targeting big data and platform data management. This role emphasizes reliability, automation, and performance, focusing on developing solutions that transform the company's platforms to deliver data-driven insights and value.

Essential Functions:

• Data Requirement Gathering: Collaborate with Business Analysts and the Product team to understand and gather data requirements.
• Data Pipeline Development: Design and build Ab Initio data graphs and data pipelines to extract data from various databases, flat files, and message queues.
• Data Transformation: Transform the extracted data to create a consumable data layer for various applications.
• Support and Maintenance: Provide ongoing support for data pipelines, including bug fixes and enhancements.
• Documentation: Document technical designs, operational runbooks, and other relevant materials.
  
  

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
  
  

Experience:

• 10 years of IT experience, predominantly in Data Integration and Data Warehouse.
• Minimum of 5 years of ETL design and development experience using Ab Initio.
• 1-2 years of data integration project experience on the Hadoop platform, preferably Cloudera.
• Familiarity with Ab Initio CDC (Change Data Capture) in an ETL project setting is a plus.
• Working knowledge of HDFS, Hive, Impala, and related Hadoop technologies.
• Experience with AWS services is beneficial, particularly with Glue as the company transitions to the cloud.
• Strong SQL skills with the ability to write well-performing SQL queries.
• Good understanding of OLTP and OLAP data models and data warehouse fundamentals.
• Rigor in maintaining high code quality, automated testing, and adhering to engineering best practices.
• Ability to unit test thoroughly and troubleshoot issues in production environments.
• Experience with Unix/Linux shell scripting is required.
• Ability to work independently while supporting junior developers as needed.
• Some Java development experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of Agile development practices is required.
  
  

Key Attributes:

• Proven leadership experience in managing projects at this level.
• Hands-on experience with Ab Initio, particularly in developing continuous flows for real-time processing.
• Experience replicating data from mainframe systems, processing it through Ab Initio continuous flows, and publishing to MongoDB.
• Strong SQL proficiency and ability to guide team members effectively.
  
  

If you are an experienced Senior Data Engineer with a strong background in Ab Initio and big data technologies, we encourage you to apply for this key role!