Ab Initio Developer
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Job type
- Contract
- Work location
- Work Model: Hybrid – 3 Days in Office
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Ab Initio Developer
Work Model: Hybrid – 3 Days in Office
Location: Toronto Downtown
Skills: Ab Initio
Experience Required: 6–8 Years
Role Description
The Ab Initio Developer will act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the existing Ab Initio ETL ecosystem and play a critical role in migrating ETL processing logic to SAP HANA Stored Procedures.
The individual will be responsible for analyzing and understanding the current Ab Initio implementation, documenting business and transformation rules, guiding HANA developers during the conversion process, and validating that the HANA solution produces results equivalent to the existing Ab Initio implementation.
Required Skills
Senior Ab Initio Developer with 10+ years of hands-on experience.
Analyze and understand existing Ab Initio graphs, workflows, transforms, plans, and ETL processes.
Execute existing Ab Initio workflows to generate baseline outputs for comparison.
Review and document business rules, transformation logic, data mappings, and processing flows implemented within Ab Initio.
Understand end-to-end data lineage, including upstream and downstream dependencies.
Provide technical guidance and clarifications related to Ab Initio design, architecture, and implementation.
Collaborate with HANA developers to translate Ab Initio ETL logic into SAP HANA Stored Procedures and database objects.
Support troubleshooting of job execution issues, data issues, and migration-related defects.
Assist in interpreting complex transformation logic and business rules embedded in Ab Initio code.
Identify potential conversion challenges, performance considerations, and functional dependencies.
Analyze Unix shell scripts, wrapper scripts, parameter files, and workflow orchestration components associated with Ab Initio processing.
Top 3 Nice-to-Have Skills
Review HANA implementation to ensure alignment with the original Ab Initio processing logic.
Review scheduling dependencies and execution sequences to ensure complete migration coverage.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Ab Initio Developer will analyze existing Ab Initio graphs and workflows, document business and transformation rules, and guide HANA developers in converting ETL logic. The role also validates that the HANA solution produces results equivalent to the original Ab Initio processing.
Requirements
Astra North Infoteck Inc. needs a senior Ab Initio developer with deep ETL experience, data lineage understanding, and the ability to troubleshoot job, data and migration defects. Experience with Unix shell scripting and workflow orchestration is also needed.
Skills
- Ab Initio
- Ab Initio graphs
- Ab Initio plans
- ETL
- SAP HANA
- HANA stored procedures
- Data mapping
- Data lineage
- Unix shell scripting
- Parameter files
- Workflow orchestration
- Job scheduling
- Troubleshooting
- Performance tuning
- Business rules documentation
- Technical documentation
- Technical guidance
- Migration validation
- Data warehousing
- Dependency analysis
Categories
- Software
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Ab Initio
- ETL
- SAP HANA
- HANA stored procedures
- data migration
- data lineage
- Unix shell scripting
- workflow orchestration
- data warehousing
- transformation rules
- business rules
- job scheduling
- Toronto
- contract
- hybrid
- SME
Seniority
Senior
Tools
- Ab Initio
- SAP HANA
- Unix shell
Languages
- English