What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer (Legacy Stack — Oracle/Informatica/COBOL) position at VARSA SOLUTIONS?
We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer with a strong background in legacy data platforms to join our financial services client's team in Smithfield, Rhode Island. This is a hybrid role requiring 1 day per week onsite. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Oracle, Informatica ETL, and the ability to work with COBOL-based systems.
• 7 years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering, data warehousing and analytics
• 7 years of experience with Relational Databases — Oracle preferred
• Advanced SQL — complex queries, stored procedures (must be able to debug)
• 5 years with Informatica or any other ETL tools — data integration and data movement design patterns
• 5 years in Shell scripting — K-Shell and Bash
• 5 years working on Linux and AIX
• Ability to understand and work with COBOL and Pro*C (not writing, but reading/compiling)
• Solid understanding of domain-based design, data modeling and data structures
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD
• Agile environment experience — Kanban and Scrum
• Python experience
• Apache Tomcat
• OBIEE or other BI/analytics tools
• AWS, Azure, or Airflow
• Financial services domain knowledge