Datastage Consultant

Position Purpose

The engineer/developer is working closely with his team members and business teams to develop features according to a requirement.

He must also ensure that developments are aligned with best practices and monitor what has been promoted on higher environments.

Production follow up, tests, supports activities are part of his daily activity (job monitoring, issues solving, )

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

- Participate to all the Agile ceremonies of the squad (Dailys, Sprint plannings, backlog refinements, reviews, etc)

- Communicate ASAP on the blocking points

- Estimate, design and build technical solution for business needs & requirements according to the Jira requirements (Change, bug fixing, ).

- Do the unit tests of the code developed to deliver the code for user acceptance test

- Design technical solution for business needs & requirements

- Maintain a clean code or a robust infrastructure (depending on developer / OPs expertise)

- Raise technical improvements and impediments

Contributing Responsibilities

- Accountable to deliver the amount of jira tickets assigned to him/her during a sprint

- Accountable to do the daily support/monitoring

- Accountable to contribute to the Engineer Chapter events and Tribe community (Guild with the Engineer Techlead)

- Accountable on the platform behavior ensure platform is up and running (stability) with the tech lead and other members of the guild

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Be autonomous on his asset (Senior to expert level) and motivated on the daily tasks.

Be an active member of the squad (often multi-technologies).

Be proactive by raising alerts when it’s flagged, try to understand the global context and suggest how to solve an issue (without focusing only on his subpart). it will also help to understand better the rest of the team (who will not necessarily work on the same tool)

Be able to provide proofs that developments are matching to the requirement (tests cases)

Have proper communication with the Business (English language)

Have some knowledge regarding deployment/versioning tools (Git, Jenkins, )

Have some knowledge on project tracking software (Jira, QC, )

Have some knowledge regarding monitoring tools (Centreon, Dynatrace, )

Have a strong background in SQL and be able to check some test cases on his own directly by launching some SQL requests on the different databases

Provide his technical expertise to suggest optimization and technical enhancements

Unix/Windows

Specific Technical skills required for this role:

Datastage PX (currently v11.7.1.4) - Having some admin notions (XMETA) is not mandatory but can be an advantage.

Knowledge on scripts shell

PL-SQL

SQL

Unix

Education Level:

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 5 years