Senior Scheduler

Role: Lead Scheduler Administrator

Location: Offshore/INDIA

Who are we looking for?

Oracle

Technical Skills:

• Strong administrator knowledge of

  Oracle

  &

  Autosys Scheduler/ Crontab/Cloudwatch/CA7.

• Strong administrator knowledge of

  Airflow/ Talend/ Cognos

• Batch jobs monitoring Performance Optimization: Monitor and validate job performance, system resource utilization (CPU, memory, storage), and troubleshoot bottlenecks.
• Problem Resolution: Diagnose and resolve issues
• Software Updates & Patches: Apply software updates, patches, and service packs to ensure the environment is current and secure.
• Collaboration: Work closely with batch job administrator, DataStage developers, data engineers, database administrators, and other teams to ensure proper job monitoring
• Security & Compliance: Enhance security practices, implement best practices for batch monitoring, and ensure compliance with enterprise technology standards and regulatory expectations.
• Documentation: Maintain technical documentation, including runbooks, disaster recovery plans, and job run reports.
• Monitoring & Reporting: Monitor job executions, generate reports on job runs, and create tickets for any issues
• Troubleshooting: Identifying and resolving issues and performance.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, for interacting with users, other administrators, and potentially vendors.
• Documentation: Maintaining clear documentation related to batch monitoring procedures, and other administrative tasks.
• Ability to work in a 24/7 support rotation and handle urgent production issues.

Responsibilities

• Understanding of batch processing principles and system dependencies.
• Plan daily, weekly, monthly, and special batch cycles.
• Develop and test batch schedules for both testing and production environments.
• Set up new schedules or modify existing job schedules.
• Define calendars as required by business needs.
• Oversee automated batch jobs and processes, ensuring they start, run, and complete as planned.
• Monitor execution, waiting, failed and long-running jobs.
• Identify failures and address job abends (abnormal ends) or other issues.
• Escalate critical incidents to appropriate support teams.
• Participate in major incident triage and resolution.
• Maintain detailed records of batch execution, performance data, and troubleshooting steps.
• Update related documentation and schedules.
• Generate operational reports and reports as required per business needs.
• Document resolutions to ensure continuous improvement.
• Experience in diagnosing, isolating, and debugging scheduling problems.
• Ability to log and analyze errors.