Datastage ETL Developer

PBT Group has a requirement for DataStage ETL Developers (Warehouse/Data Integration).

DUTIES:

- Design, develop, test and deploy ETL for ODS and data mart projects, as well as application and management reports.

- Provide technical support, troubleshooting and upgrade setup or support on ETL and database related issues.

- Research and evaluate alternative IT solutions to make appropriate recommendations to meet the business needs for management information.

- Perform root cause analysis, performance monitoring and application related issues.

- Review IT work products from the team members for completeness and quality.

- Accurately translate business requirement to technical documentation and test case or results.

- Analyse and map data from source systems to target operational data stores and data marts.

- Maintain and provide application support in production.

- Code or folder migration from one environment to another as part of release management.

- Participation in all aspects of quality assurance.

- Active participation in systems integration and user acceptance testing.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

- IBM: DataStage Tool

- Telco / Banking experience would be an advantage

- Strong modular system design skills.

- Conventional and data warehouse modelling skills are required, in order to understand the various data models and to define the mappings between them.

- System analysis and design skills are necessary to design and document the data extractions and transformations.

- Expert knowledge of the capabilities of the ETL tools being used, to know what their capabilities and shortcomings are – in order to exploit or avoid those aspects in the ETL program designs.

- Good organisation, planning and basic management skills.

- Good interpersonal and communication skills.

- Decision making and problem solving skills.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING:

- Relevant data warehouse and BI solution training is essential.

- B.Sc. or related degree is advantageous.

- 5+ years programming experience.