Growth Hacker

JOB DESCRIPTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work as a Member of The File Transfer Engineering team involved with the Configuration, Maintenance, and Support of Sterling File Gateway, Connect Direct (NDM) environment.
• This position will participate in the design & development of technical solutions within company strategic B2B/MFT platform which provide innovative technical improvements, improve quality and operational excellence, lower cost, satisfy regulatory and compliance requirements, mitigate risk, and satisfy business objectives.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering/Science Degree or related field
• 4-5 years’ experience in supporting real time production environments.
• Extensive debugging skills and fixing experience
• General knowledge of industry standards and best practices for supporting middleware technologies
• Knowledge of Ping Access, Ping Federate, LDAP, Active Directory, Connect Direct (NDM) Unix/Windows/Mainframe
• Developing transformation maps and processes for any-to-any data formats and RDBMS queries using IBM Sterling B2B Integrator mapping and business process modeling tools.
• This position requires sophisticated knowledge of B2B/MFT concepts, technologies, best practices, standards, and architectures within the IBM File Gateway suite.
• Minimum five years of technical experience in IBM File Gateway Suite (IBM Sterling B2B Integrator (preferably version 6.x) and IBM Sterling File Gateway, Sterling External Authentication Server, Secure Proxy, IBM Control Center Monitor) including:
• Experience with Installation and configuration of multi-node architecture environments, including upgrades and platform migration.
• Experience in setting up and testing disaster recovery environment to handle failover scenarios.
• Experience with onboarding new partners, transactions and making changes to existing partners to meet internal and external requirements.
• Experience in configuring adapters, service configuration and policies.
• Experience in setting up and configuring industry-standard communication protocols such as SFTP, FTPs, FTP, HTTP, HTTP, Connect: Direct, WebSphere MQ
• Experience with security configurations SSL certificates, SSH keys, PGP/GPG
• Experience with IBM File Gateway Suite maintenance and administration
• Experience with external authentication integration
• Experience with Java extensibility
• Development of custom protocols, custom file layers and custom consumer identification
• Must possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and root cause analysis skills.
• Hands-on experience in Production Support, resolving critical incidents using the IBM File Gateway Suite
• Knowledge of SQL queries, database schemas and related concepts using Oracle
• Knowledge of IBM Sterling File Gateway APIs.
• Should have Excellent communication and customer service skills.

Looking for an experienced candidate with strong development and programming experience, knowledge preferred-

• Cloud computing (i.e. Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Coming from a strong development background and has programming experience with Java and/or NodeJS (other programming languages such as Groovy/python are a big bonus)
• Proficient with Unix systems and bash
• Proficient with git/GitHub/GitLab/bitbucket

Desired skills-

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins
• Experience in any scripting language (Phyton, Shell Scripting, Java Script)
• NGINX / Load Balancer
• Splunk / ETL tools

Primary Duties and Responsibilities 

• Experience with Informatica Multidomain MDM 10.4 tool suite preferred
• Partnering with data architects and engineers to ensure an optimal data model design and implementation for each MDM domain in accordance with industry and MDM best practices
• Works with data governance and business steward(s) to design, develop, and configure business rules for data validation, standardize, match, and merge
• Implementation of Data Quality policies, procedures and standards along with Data Governance Team for maintenance of customer, location, product, and other data domains; Experience with Informatica IDQ tool suite preferred.
• Performs data analysis and source-to-target mapping for ingest and egress of data.
• Maintain compliance with change control, SDLC, and development standards.
• Champion the creation and contribution to technical documentation and diagrams.
• Establishes a technical vision and strategy with the team and works with the team to turn it into reality.
• Emphasis on coaching and training to cultivate skill development of team members within the department.
• Responsible for keeping up with industry best practices and trends.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, maintain, and continuously improve the MDM ecosystem.

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities

• May participate in off-hours on-call rotation.
• Attends and is prepared to participate in team, department and company meetings.
• Performs other job related duties and special projects as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This is a non-management role

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Sciences, Business Administration, or related field; or High School Degree/General Education Diploma and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of Bachelor's degree.
• 5+ years of experience in implementing MDM solutions using Informatica MDM.
• 2+ years of experience in data stewardship, data governance, and data management concepts.
• Professional working knowledge of Customer 360 solution
• Professional working knowledge in multi domain MDM data modeling.
• Strong understanding of company master data sets and their application in complex business processes and support data profiling, extraction, and cleansing activities using Informatica Data Quality (IDQ).
• Strong knowledge in the installation and configuration of the Informatica MDM Hub.
• Familiarity with real-time, near real-time and batch data integration.
• Strong experience and understanding of Informatica toolsets including Informatica MDM Hub, Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), Informatica Customer 360, Informatica EDC, Hierarchy Manager (HM), Business Entity Service Model, Address Doctor, Customizations & Composite Services
• Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, Azure Event Hub, etc.).
• Professional working knowledge of CI/CD technologies such as Concourse, TeamCity, Octopus, Jenkins, and CircleCI.
• Team player that exhibits high energy, strategic thinking, collaboration, direct communication and results orientation.

Physical Requirements

• Visual requirements include: ability to see detail at near range with or without correction. Must be physically able to perform sedentary work: occasionally lifting or carrying objects of no more than 10 pounds, and occasionally standing or walking, reaching, handling, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing and repetitive motions.

Working Conditions

• The duties of this position are performed through a combination of an open office setting and remote work options. Full remote work options available for employees that reside outside of the Des Moines Metro Area. There is frequent pressure to meet deadlines and handle multiple projects in a day.

Equipment Used to Perform Job

• Windows, or Mac computer and various software solutions.

Financial Responsibility

• Responsible for company assets including maintenance of software solutions.

Contacts

• Has frequent contact with office personnel in other departments related to the position, as well as occasional contact with users and customers. Engages stakeholders from other area in the business.

Confidentiality

• Has access to confidential information including trade secrets, intellectual property, various financials, and customer data.

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software products and enhancements to existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

 
            RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.
• Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements.
• Coordinate cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards.
• Support test and deployment of new products and features.
• Participate in code reviews.
  
  KEY SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
  
  
• A minimum of 3+ years of relevant work experience in the development of scalable scale web applications.
• Proven experience in Full stack web development using Typescript, Angular1,2,4+, HTML5 and CSS3, Microservice API development, and experience in PHP/Python/Laravel and MVC frameworks is a must.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools, Code Analysis, and Test automation is preferred.
• Expertise in Object-Oriented Design, Database Design, and XML Schema.
• Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies.
• Ability to multi-task, organize, and prioritize work.
• Knowledge of advanced PHP concepts, MySQL, JSON, XML & ability to work in a LAMP/WAMP environment.
• Strong Knowledge of DB & code security along with basic server operations like Curl, Crud, cPanel.

Responsibilities

• Build and mentor the platform team at Checko.
• Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and craftsmanship of the team’s infrastructure and systems capable of handling massive amounts of requests with high reliability and scalability
• Leverage the deep and broad technical expertise to mentor engineers and provide leadership on resolving complex technology issues
• Entrepreneurial and out-of-box thinking essential for a technology startup
• Guide the team for unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

Requirements

• Must have design, development, testing, deployment of systems capable of handling massive amounts of requests with high reliability and scalability
• Must have strong command in writing production-level code in Java or Python including skills in debugging, performance analysis/optimization and memory usage optimization
• Must have worked with real-time web/mobile applications and event-driven architectures
• Must have experience working with relational and non-relational databases and understanding their data models and performance tradeoffs.
• Must have solid engineering principles and a clear understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Should have knowledge of service-oriented architecture, caching techniques, micro-services, and distributed systems
• Should have basic understanding of C++/reactJS/Angular/Node

Desired Skills and Experience

Algorithms, debugging, performance optimization on low-end processors, data structures, REST, service-oriented architecture.