Data Warehouse Engineer

Title: Senior Data Warehousing Programmer Location: Remote Contract Duration: 6 Months Job Description: All work and duties are focused on development and maintenance of applications providing ETL services in support of the Postal Data Asset Services group. The tasks to be performed under the scope of this statement of work must be completed under the direction, oversight, and prioritization of the Data Technology Services Manager and/or designated US Government Client Data Asset Services Program Managers. The following describes the abilities, job categories, and tasks the resources are expected to perform. • Ab Initio ETL Coding in GDE • Ab Initio Metadata Hub Lineage • Ab Initio TRMC • ANSI SQL and Teradata SQL extensions • Teradata SQL Assistant (a.k.a. QueryMan) for EDS Support Teradata Utilities for EDS Support: • BTEQ • FastLoad • MultiLoad • FastExport • TPump In addition, the following UNIX skills are required: • UNIX commands and concepts in order to navigate source code directories, find error logs, perform impact analysis assessments, edit code, version files • Linux Shell scripting in order to read and create driver scripts In addition, the following Ab Initio skills are required: • A working knowledge of how Ab Initio conducts data extract, transformations, and loading – especially to and from Teradata • Development of graphs, plans, PSETs and how to develop tests and debug • PDL scripting The following additional skills are required: • A working knowledge of how Microstrategy and other OLAP tools interact with Teradata. • A working knowledge of the major competing Data Warehouse modeling techniques (Third-Normal-Form and Dimensional modeling) and how data modeling decisions affect the performance of ETL, structured report queried, and unstructured data analysis. • A working knowledge of Web API development. • A working knowledge of storing, reading and analyzing streaming data – i.e., kafka, mqseries, or similar technologies, such as JMS. • A working knowledge of Cloud technology developing and architecting. • A working knowledge of BI metrics and/or dashboards design and performance tuning. Additional Required Skills/Experience: • A minimum of ten (10) years experience in software development • A degree from an accredited College/University in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline is preferred; • Able to perform all functional duties independently; • Experience training/mentoring less experienced personnel; • Experience authoring or contributing to software-related documentation such as requirements specifications, design documents, technical manuals, and user manuals; • Excellent communication skills.