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The Abinitio Admin role provides technical expertise to the Middleware Abinitio Administration team. This role requires technology expertise in Abinitio, ETL, Abinitio on Hadoop and Unix/Linux with knowledge of banking industry to support multiple franchise critical Client applications with very tight SLAs and deadlines. Candidate will work independently and is required to be self motivated. The candidate will work with complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact, weighing various alternatives and balancing potentially conflicting needs.

- Job Responsibilities –

Abinitio, Abinitio on Hadoop and ETL infrastructure middleware support.
Platform design, cluster setup, Abinitio installation and configuration, application environment setup and 24x7 support for supported applications and products.
Talend admin, setting up web instances for Talend Administration Center (TAC)
Incident management, Problem management, Change Management, Request Management by using Service Now.
Collaboration / Team work with people from other functions and Line of Business (SA’s, DBAs, Storage Teams, App Support Teams, App Dev Teams, Architects, App Management team, Engineering)
Support Abinitio integration with storage and clustering layers like SAN, NAS, Veritas Cluster, Load Balancers, High availability.
Problem detection, issue resolution, root cause analysis and permanent fix implementation for complex environmental and production issues.
Perform Abinitio and related product upgrades to stay up to date to the latest versions and features.
Plan and execute annual disaster recovery tests which include switching the whole infrastructure over to the DR data center.
Abinitio on Hadoop setup, configuration and support. Involves working with HDMFS (Hadoop Multi File system), Yarn for resource allocation, various CDH (Cloudera Distributed Hadoop) and Cloudera manager.
Performance monitoring, tuning and proactive mitigation of capacity related issues.
Working with technology vendors like Abinitio, Talend etc.
Productivity optimization, automation and drive cost saving initiatives for the organization.
Risk and audit management to fulfil regulatory compliance requirements.
Work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risks
Create and maintain detailed up-to-date technical documentation

- Required Skills and Qualifications -

5+ years of comprehensive and in-depth experience in the IT industry with specialization and expertise in data warehousing, ETL, Abinitio administrator.
Must have extensive exposure to Abinitio environment, preferably development or production support.
Well versed with various flavors of Unix/Linux, should be comfortable with scripting.
End to end Understanding of the Abinitio architecture and products.
Should have worked with latest version of Co?operating system. Preferably 3.X or higher.
Expertise in working with Abinitio Graphical development environment (GDE)
Awareness of setting up new Abinitio servers, migration from old to new servers, creating new projects and maintaining artifacts and connectivity etc.
Experience with scheduling in Abinitio Control Center and troubleshooting related issues.
Basic understanding about Autosys job scheduling and preliminary troubleshooting.
Understanding of Apache/Tomcat/Single Sign On and should be able to debug and solve basic JVM issues.
Ability to perform basic SSL/Certificates tasks like installation/upgrade/renewal.
Knowledge on Authorization Gateway/Query?It/Metadata Hub.
Understanding on Abinitio resource utilization and capacity requirements.
Ability to troubleshoot performance related problems in and outside of the Abinitio graph.
Acquainted with Abinitio EME repository and perform admin functions like user creation/code promotion/object tagging/checkin/checkout.
Familiarity with advanced Abinitio components like continuous flows, Micrograph, Abinitio-Queues, MQ, JMS, Conduct?it (plan), XML components
Ability to Fine tune the Abinitio graphs for better performance.
Familiarity and experience with SDLC followed in organizations. Awareness of criticality of various environments.
Understanding of Hadoop, YARN, Cloudera manager, Cloudera BDR, Hive, HUE and MySQL
Understanding of Database systems preferably Oracle and SQL Server.
Familiarity with monitoring tools like App dynamics and Splunk
ITIL process and tools understanding preferably Service Now.
Self-starter with meticulous approach to work habit.
Team player with good communication skills and ability to perform under fire
Ability to work independently and deliver results to meet deadlines .
Interpersonal skills to interact with global team members and clients
Excellent verbal and written communications skills