Apex Systems is looking for a Teradata/SQL Developer for one of our biggest financial clients in Charlotte, NC. If you are interested, please send your resume to
Location: Charlotte, NC - WFH to start, with possibility of transitioning to hybrid in-office schedule
Type: 12+ month contract to hire
We are only able to work on a W2 basis, no Corp to Corp. Must be able to work on our W2 without sponsorship!
2-5 years' experience with application production support on Teradata / Hadoop data-warehouse and analytical platforms
Experience monitoring, analyzing and fixing ETL job failures for SQL/Hadoop-based ETL and analytic workflows using native utilities (Teradata bteq, tpt, fastexport), Hive/Spark/Pyspark etc
Experience analyzing data incidents and issues, and resolve simple/moderate quality issues
Experience working with Hadoop Technologies, programs and toolsets like Hadoop, Hive, Sqoop, Impala, Kafka, and Python/Spark/PySpark workloads
Very good knowledge of Unix/Linux shell Scripting and scheduling (like Autosys)
Excellent written, proactive communication and diagramming skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
Speaking / presentation skills in a professional setting
Excellent interpersonal skills and a team player to work all along with Global teams and business partners
Positive attitude and flexible
Willingness to learn new skills and adapt to changes
Desired Skills:
Banking/financial enterprise experience
Industry certifications in Teradata and Big Data Technologies like Hadoop (cloudera), Hive, Sqoop, Impala, Kafka, MapReduce
Role Description:
CDSO Application Production Support personnel is responsible for running the day-to-day operations of the Enterprise Information / Data Science Products owned and operated by the Chief Data Scientist Organization (CDSO) that are operated and maintained on enterprise Teradata/SASGRID/Hadoop platforms. Work activities specific to Production Services roles include Problem/Incident Management, Release/Deployment support, Operational Readiness, Capacity/Availability Management, Application Monitoring, Service Level Agreement (SLA) maintenance, Production Governance, Triage, Audit support etc.
Responsibilities:
Monitor Application ETL and Analytics data load jobs on the enterprise platforms (Teradata/SASGRID/Hadoop)
Provide on-call (rotational) support to handle production failure scenarios (Incident Management)
Monitor and ensure adherence to daily/weekly/monthly Service Level Agreements (SLA) for data sourcing, processing and provisioning timings
Serves as the first line of support to investigate and resolve data quality issues and escalate to L2/L3 Support Team when required
Follow communication and escalation routines to prevent and handle SLA breaches - contacting upstream data source applications for data delays, data quality issues, create and send user bulletins for data provisioning delays / issues
Provide capacity management support (eg ensure enough space allocation on database/server directories)
Provide application availability support (eg bringing application to Business-as-Usual (BAU) by running jobs after a platform Outage)
Manage Incidents, Service requests, Problems Change using ITSM tools and methodologies.
Work closely with Technology Infrastructure and Development Teams in supporting Integrated / Independent release deployments, software/hardware upgrades, server upgrades and also participate in Disaster Recovery and Resiliency testing exercises
Communicates effectively with L2/L3 Support, Development and internal business operations teams serving as an escalation point between the client/business area and internal management for the resolution of moderately complex unresolved problems, complaints and service requests
Collaborate with offshore team members for efficient production support shift handoffs
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