Senior Ab Initio Developer

Job Locations: US-VA-Arlington

Overview

Nakupuna Consulting is seeking a Senior Ab Initio Developer to join our team supporting the execution of a large size, multi-year contract to the Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Army (IPPS-A) Army Military Payroll (AMP). The developer's key responsibility will be providing team status in various projects, escalating issues as needed, assessing and communicating risks to the development schedule and project, representing the Data Integration Development team's interests in cross-functional project teams, and ensuring project success.

Responsibilities

The following reflects management's definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

• Prepare technical documents including design specifications, architecture drawings, operational run books.
• Collaborate throughout the organization on effective identification of technical issues.
• Code management and development for Extract, Transform, & Load (ETL) routines.
• Provide application design guidance and consultation, utilizing a thorough understanding of applicable technology, tools and existing designs.
• Collaborate with multiple technology teams, multiple product partners, and marketing operations teams.
• Partner with third‑party vendors to ensure a holistic, fully integrated technical solution development into systems.
• Analyze highly complex business requirements, designs and/or data, requiring evaluation of intangible variance factors.
• Mentor junior Ab Initio developers.
• Provide input Standards and Best practices for test data management to help functional and regression testing.

Qualifications

• Works with other team members, including DBAs, ETL developers, Technical Architects, QA & Business Analysts.
• Ensure solution reuse.
• Code, test, modify, debug, document, and implement Ab Initio Graphs utilizing the GDE environment.
• Good understanding of replication and parallel streaming technologies.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in design and delivery of ETL process development using Ab Initio, Unix shell script.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle, Teradata databases and large data sets.
• Experience in writing Technical, Functional documentation.
• Education: Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Software or Engineering major or 2+ years of experience within federal government, DoD, Army, or IC preferred.
• SQL knowledge required. Strong communication skills required.
• Certifications: SAFe for Teams and Security+ preferred.

Clearance Requirements: This position requires a current Secret clearance. Must be a U.S. Citizen.

Work Location: Work location will be in Arlington 2 days on‑site with a hybrid option. Occasional travel may be required.

Physical Requirements: The ideal candidate must at a minimum be able to meet the following physical requirements of the job:

• Ability to perform repetitive motions with the hands, wrists, and fingers.
• Ability to engage in and follow audible communications in emergency situations.
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods at a desk and working on a computer.