Data Engineer Ab initio

Job Description

Job Title : Data Engineer Ab initio

Location: Berkeley Height, NJ

We are seeking a highly skilled resource to design and implement high-performance, event-driven data pipelines, ensuring low-latency data processing and high availability system for the large credit card processing system. The ideal candidate will work with the Ab Initio ecosystem (GDE, EME, Conduct> It) to build stateful services that ingest, filter, and transform data from sources like Kafka or message queues, pushing updates to dashboards or downstream databases in near-real-time.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create complex Ab Initio continuous flow graphs, including stateful joins, sliding time windows, and aggregations.

• Implement event-driven data pipelines using Kafka, MQ, and file streams.

• Ensure the resilience of continuous flows, including checkpointing and recovery, to guarantee "exactly-once" processing.

• Apply advanced Ab Initio components (e.g., Reformat, Rollup, Join, Partition) to ensure low-latency performance.

• Proactively monitor live production streams to ensure 24/7 reliability and troubleshooting data issues

• Develop ETL pipelines for batch and real-time data ingestion and transformation.

• Implement and ensure data validation, data security, integrity, and compliance across big data platforms.

• Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues in large-scale clusters.

• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and application teams to deliver high-quality data solutions.

• Automate workflows and improve operational efficiency using scripting and orchestration tools.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of credit card process system

• Deep knowledge of GDE (Graphical Development Environment), EME (Enterprise Meta> Environment), Conduct> It, and Continuous Flows.

• Understanding of Kafka, message queues, and real-time stateful services.

• Proficiency in Unix/Linux shell scripting, SQL, and database technologies (e.g., Oracle, Teradata).

• Experience in Java , Scala, Python or Kafka is plus.

• Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments and shell scripting.

• Understanding of data security, governance, and compliance standards.

• Experience with cloud-based big data platforms

• Exposure to containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) for big data workloads.

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines for data engineering projects.

Behavioral Skills:

• Good Communication skills

• 5 days Work from Office at Berkley Heights, NJ

• Team Player

• Ability to work in a changing environment

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

• Ability to work independently or within a team

• Manage day-to-day challenges and communicate developmental risks with the technical team

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• Proficiency in business process modeling and documentation tools.

• Product implementation experience is preferred