DataStage Engineer (W2 Contract Only)

Job Title - DataStage Engineer III

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Duration: 6 Months contract

Pay Rate: $65/hr

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 1:00 PM - 10:00 PM Eastern time, Weekend flexibility- planned weekend hours for one weekend in June, July and September (Labor Day Weekend)

Responsibilities:

• Advanced Troubleshooting & Incident Response: Rapid diagnosis and resolution of job failures (abends) to maintain test and production stability.
• Platform Engineering & Optimization: Monitoring and tuning of the DataStage platform performance under increased test and cutover volumes.
• Stability Assurance During Key Events: Hands-on platform oversight and issue resolution during Mock cycles, conversion weekend, and the stabilization period that follows.
• Ensuring Stable and Predictable Data Migration: Deep DataStage expertise enables proactive detection and resolution of job performance issues, bottlenecks, and abends that could impact critical conversion processing.
• Optimizing High-volume Conversion Workloads: As data volumes may significantly increase overall workload load on the platform, this role will tune and optimize DataStage jobs so they scale to meet cutover and Mock testing throughput requirements.
• Maintaining Platform Resilience During Key Events: Provide hands-on oversight during all Mock cycles, the conversion weekend, and the post go-live stabilization period, ensuring that data pipelines run without delays or failures that would impact downstream systems.
• Reducing Operational and Timeline Risk: By providing Level 3–4 engineering support, this role will fill a critical skill gap in advanced troubleshooting, root cause identification, and rapid remediation needed to prevent cascading conversion delays.
• Supporting Business Continuity Across Integrations: DataStage reliability directly impacts customer account setup, transaction history migration, downstream regulatory reporting, and product readiness — all essential elements of Merge the Bank outcomes.