Primary Role

This position will be responsible for implementing ETL design and development plus system administration of applications used to support data integration for the Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) Foundations team. The ETL Developer/System Administrator will work closely with members of other ACE groups and team members to understand all project requirements that encompassthe ETL and data integration realm, as well as contribute to solution development.
 

The ETL Developer/System Administrator will provide technical expertise, implementation and support for ETL/data integration purposes. This position is responsible for ensuring that each solution is extensible, adheres to ACE architectural and industry standards, and is maintainable and operational with minimum manual interference.

Essential Tasks/Responsibilities

• Design and document ETL process in support of analytics/data integration projects
• Create data extraction, cleansing and load programs to move data into and out of the data environment
• Work with Agile team members to document and execute test plans for data loading and data validation scripts. Support the code promotion process through development and production as required.
• Develop, implement and maintain schedule/dependency logic for automated ETL processing.
• Develop monitoring, logging, and error notification processes to ensure data is updated as expected and processing metrics reported.
• Participate in the creation and maintenance of standards for coding, documentation, error handling, error notification, logging, etc.
• Accountable for conforming to established architectural, developmental, and operational standards and practices including creation of ETL metadata.
• Work with other team members in establishing and sharing design and development techniques of the ETL process.
• Assist in the maintenance and administration of applications and software used by ACE.
• Evaluate and recommend database development tools
• Assist inapplication and database performance tuning
• Participate in system architecture design
• Implement integration and interface tools between transactional and data warehousing systems
• Work with Quality Assurance to assist with unit and integrated testing.
• Share trouble-shooting and maintenance duties

Education/training

Bachelor's degree in a related field, or four years of equivalent technical experience required

Licensure/Certification:

None required. Preferred certification in development technologies, as appropriate for the position.

Experience

• Minimum two years of directly related experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience within the Health Care realm is desired.

Skills

• Knowledge and experience in relational and dimensional database design techniques.
• Experience in SQL, database programming and utilities (preferably Oracle)
• Windows and IIS administration proficiency
• Java & Javascript proficiency
• Python proficiency
• Basic containerization experience (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Azure Containers)
• Intermediate HL7 knowledge
• Basic Linux administration knowledge
• C# proficiency
• Intermediate Postgres, Oracle, and MS SQL server proficiency 
• Excellent analytical skills required.
• Previous experience with data modeling required. 
• In depth knowledge and experience with ETL development and applying sound ETL techniques and modular system design skills are essential.
• Experience with developing sound technical documentation is required.
• Ability to identify and resolve data quality issues within the ETL realm.
• Understanding of and experience with basic DBA skills such as, physical modeling, table partitioning and indexing is required.
• Knowledge of system architecture design
• Familiarity with daemon/job scheduling (SSIS, IWS, Airflow, RabbitMQ, etc.)
• Previous experience with data warehousing systems design and development a plus.
• PL/SQL, Perl, UNIX desired
• Apache Soir knowledge a plus
• Basic IBM IWS ability
• FHIR knowledge desired
• Experience working with Azure desired
• Experience working with APIs

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