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Data Engineer (Ab Initio)

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Alpharetta, GA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/28/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/25/2026
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Title: Data Engineer (Ab Initio)

Location: Alpharetta, GA / Wilmington, DE (5 Days Onsite)

FULLTIME / Contract – W2

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled resource to design and implement high-performance, event-driven data pipelines, ensuring low-latency data processing and high availability system for the large credit card processing system. The ideal candidate will work with the Ab Initio ecosystem (GDE, EME, Conduct>It) to build stateful services that ingest, filter, and transform data from sources like Kafka or message queues, pushing updates to dashboards or downstream databases in near-real-time.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Create complex Ab Initio continuous flow graphs, including stateful joins, sliding time windows, and aggregations.
  • Implement event-driven data pipelines using Kafka, MQ, and file streams.
  • Ensure the resilience of continuous flows, including checkpointing and recovery, to guarantee "exactly-once" processing.
  • Apply advanced Ab Initio components (e.g., Reformat, Rollup, Join, Partition) to ensure low-latency performance.
  • Proactively monitor live production streams to ensure 24/7 reliability and troubleshooting data issues
  • Develop ETL pipelines for batch and real-time data ingestion and transformation.
  • Implement and ensure data validation, data security, integrity, and compliance across big data platforms.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues in large-scale clusters.
  • Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and application teams to deliver high-quality data solutions.
  • Automate workflows and improve operational efficiency using scripting and orchestration tools.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

  • Deep understanding of credit card process system
  • Deep knowledge of GDE (Graphical Development Environment), EME (Enterprise Meta>Environment), Conduct>It, and Continuous Flows.
  • Understanding of Kafka, message queues, and real-time stateful services.
  • Proficiency in Unix/Linux shell scripting, SQL, and database technologies (e.g., Oracle, Teradata).
  • Experience in Java , Scala, Python or Kafka is plus.
  • Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments and shell scripting.
  • Understanding of data security, governance, and compliance standards.
  • Experience with cloud-based big data platforms
  • Exposure to containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) for big data workloads.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines for data engineering projects.

Behavioral Skills:

  • Good Communication skills
  • 5 days Work from Office at Berkley Heights, NJ
  • Team Player
  • Ability to work in a changing environment
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills
  • Ability to work independently or within a team
  • Manage day-to-day challenges and communicate developmental risks with the technical team

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • Proficiency in business process modeling and documentation tools.

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