Senior Application Developer – DataStage and Mainframe

What is the opportunity?

A Senior Developer in application development within Enterprise Technology, Digital.  Provides information on the detailed technical design and development of applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. Applies experience and seasoned knowledge, skills, and practices to perform a variety of assignments.

What will you do?

You will be required to collaborate with multiple project/program stakeholders, including the Business Units, Project Managers, Architects, Business Systems Analysts, Development, Quality Assurance, IT infrastructure teams and third party vendors. 

• Provide thought leadership and be responsible for the highly efficient ETL solutions and design.

• Design application and Database solutions and provide technical direction while building scalable, high performing reusable solutions

• Provide technical direction, anticipate/obtain resolution of issues & implement solutions for the integration of Data projects into Enterprise Technology & RBC’s infrastructure environment

• Defines/Supports application SLAs from Database solutions perspective

• Provides work estimates using fact/metrics based model with supporting assumptions

• Resolves complex issues and conflicts (including architectural direction vs project constraints); escalates to executive level where required

• Designing and coding application programs; performing testing for developed applications.

• Reviewing, analyzing, and modifying programming systems, including encoding, testing, debugging and installing for a large-scale system.

• Ensuring the operating efficiency of existing application systems. Maintaining records for the documentation of systems development and revisions.

• Conducting analyses of organizational needs and goals for the development and implementation of application systems.

What do you need to succeed?  

Must-have:

• Mainframe Skills (JCL, COBOL, ZEKE, etc.), with minimum of 5+ years experience

• Minimum of 5+ years of recent experience and expert knowledge of designing, developing, deploying, and supporting IBM DataStage (11.x), computing applications in a large-scale, midrange, and distributed environment. In depth experience in troubleshooting of DataStage jobs and addressing issues like performance tuning

• Knowledge of advanced concepts of ETL processing and of using DataStage, including it’s integration with other technologies like API calls and databases. With minimum of 3+ years as a Senior Developer

• Expertise in designing DataStage Parallel Jobs, Job Sequencing, Creating Parameter Sets, Container, Environment Variables and Creating Parallel Routines, Data Cleansing and Writing Transformation expressions to derive values and remove unwanted data. Also, should have good working knowledge in different stages like Transformer, look up, merge stage, ODBC connector, Oracle connector, Hierarchical Stage etc.

• Strong SQL, and Linux skills

• Proven project participation and delivery experience leading team of developers, while coming up with best practices & standards and incorporating then project execution, including their measurement and reporting.

• Proven experience of incorporating reusability/framework in designs, their adoption, tracking and reporting   

Nice to have:

• Exposure to DevOps automation tools (example: Helios, UrbanCodeDeploy, GitHub)

• Understand IT Standards, AGILE Methodologies, System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and ITIL processes

• Hands-on recent experience of delivering streaming solutions using Kafka and Java based solutions, enterprise grade Database systems (DB2, Teradata, Oracle)

• Knowledge in JAVA programming and familiarity with any Cloud Technologies is an added advantage

• Strong understanding of Data warehousing concepts.

• Strategic thinker with excellent interpersonal skills to work across functions and businesses.

• Ability to facilitate between and influence key decision makers

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact 

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team 

• Opportunities to do challenging work

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities 

• Opportunities to building close relationships with clients

• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

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