Data Integration Specialist, Rome

The consultant will assist the operation, support and maintenance of existing data integration solutions based on the Talend ETL tool. The consultant is also expected to elicit requirements, design, develop and test a suite of new ETL-based data integration solutions for the Organization's Statistical Data Warehouse.

The consultant will be situated in the Data Management team of the FAO IT division and will report directly to the Data Management team leader.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Expected Outputs | Required Completion Date

• Support, maintenance and operations for existing Talend ETL jobs | September 2015
• Design, development, testing of new Talend ETL jobs | November 2015
• Support, maintenance and performance tuning of ETL environment | November 2015

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

Academic Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Sciences, Information Technology or a closely related subject.

Technical Competencies and Experience Requirements

General Requirements:

• At least 5 years hands on experience working with ETL tools
• At least 5 years developing, testing and deploying data integration solutions

Competencies:

• Client-oriented approach;
• Ability to get things done;
• Ability to manage own time and work effectively individually and as part of team
• Working knowledge of English;

Required technical knowledge, skills and experience:

• Data integration and data wrangling solutions
• Entity-relationship and dimensional data models
• SQL, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL RDBMS technologies
• Experience with Talend ETL tools
• Communicate technical matters to non-technical individuals.
• Write policy, guidelines and clear technical documentation

Desirable technical skills and experience

• OLAP techniques and technologies (e.g. Mondrian)
• Programming in Javascript and Java.
• Text mining and Entity Extraction
• Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange - SDMX

Payment conditions: the daily honorarium will be paid monthly on when-actually-employed basis and will be defined depending on relevant qualifications and work experience up to within a range from 150 USD to 280 USD.

Schedule of work: The incumbent will be required to work and be present on the premises during the standard office hours of the duty station (from 8.30 till 17.00 for HQ), unless otherwise agreed with the supervisor. The working time will be reported in the internal timesheet system.

Interested applicants are required to create an online Personal Profile form (PPF) in iRecruitment. To create the PPF, please follow the instructions available at: http://www.fao.org/employment/irecruitment-access/en

Once created the PPF, applicants should submit a cover letter setting out how their qualifications and experience match the requirements for the position, a PPF form and an updated CV including two references to: CIO-VA-Consultants@fao.org

Deadline for submission of your application: 15 August 2015.

Applications received after the closing date will not be given consideration. Only short listed candidates will be contacted