Datastage Developer

Looking for 2 of these candidate in Chicago

Requisition:        2012-03-126 

Location:              Chicago HQ 

Start Date:        ASAP 

End Date:        10/31/2012 

Individual needs to be highly skilled and competent using the IBM Data Stage product and will be Responsible for the following activities:

• Installation/upgrade of IBM Websphere Data Integration suite

• Applying patches and bundles

• Troubleshooting IBM Websphere Data Integration suite and infrastructure issues

• Project migrations to/from various environments

• Develop and troubleshoot UNIX scripts

• Setup Projects and Lpars

• Setup database connectivity to various database environments

• Monitor environments according to security requirements

• Monitor jobs for performance issues and troubleshooting

• Develop, enhance, and support best practices and standards for data integration

• Provide performance tuning insight to project teams

• Mentor developers on data integration best practices and standards

• Perform design and code reviews for the projects to ensure alignment with best practices and standards 

Required:

•5+ years of experience in IT 

•3+ years as a Data Integration practitioner 

•2+ years of solid hands-on experience in using IBM DataStage 

•2+ years of solid hands-on experience in IBM QualityStage 

•Understand DataStage clustering architecture and parallel jobs 

•Intimate knowledge in combine/sort/aggregate/transform data 

•Able to create reusable objects and job templates 

•Schedule, compile, and run DataStage jobs efficiently 

•1+ year of solid hands-on experiences in using XML stage 

•Intimate knowledge in interpreting XML document 

•2+ years in UNIX scripting, FTP and basic network principles 

•3+ years skills in database and data warehouse design principles 

•3+ years of SQL Coding and querying skills 

•3+ years of experience in testing, debugging skills and troubleshooting support and development issues 

•Experience in providing onsite support 

•Knowledge of UNIX/LINUX and Windows NT platform 

•Customer focused and work well in a team environment 

•Proactive and self-managed to achieve deliverables 

•Demonstrate strong analytical/problem solving skills 

•On-site consulting experience at customer locations 

•Must possess good verbal and written communication skills 

•Ability to write consistent, clear and accurate documentation 

Preferred Nice to have:

•Experience with version 7.5 (QualityStage/DataStage) 

•Experienced in application development 

•Data modeling experience