DataStage Architect

DataStage Architect
Location: Chicago or Richardson Hybrid onsite 3x a week (local only)
Interview Mode: Virtual
Type: Contract


Job Purpose:
This position is Sr. DataStage Consultant with strong knowledge to be able to support analysis and development needs in an environment of DataStage, DB2, Control-M applications. This position is responsible business and functional requirement analysis, systems analysis and developing technical solutions aligning to application architecture recommendations; Acting as subject matter expert (SME) post go-live period.


Required Job Qualifications:
*Bachelor Degree and 5 years Information Technology experience OR Technical Certification and/or College Courses and 7 year Information Technology experience OR 9 years Information Technology experience.
*Experience in application and/or product feature design.
*Experience in application configuration
*Experience in integration technologies(IBM infosphere DataStage and Quality Stage, IBM IIDR)
*Experience in Unix Shell scripting.
*Experience in SQL, DB2 (LUW & Zos) and Teradata.
*Experience in JSON, XML.
*Experience in Scheduling tools(Control M, Zena).
*Experience in DevOps and/or continuous deployment and/or integration process and tools (Urban code, jenkins, Git, Jira, Service Now etc).
*Experience in iterative and/or agile and/or scrum development.
*Application domain knowledge.
*Prototyping.
*Problem solving / analytical thinking.
*Teamwork and collaboration.


Preferred Job Qualifications:
*Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology
*Product-specific application architecture.
*Ability to tie together solutions across systems.