ETL Developer

The Ontology Developer (Senior Data Integration Developer) is responsible for designing and developing complex vocabulary and ontology applications and supporting tool suites and languages that support them to make knowledge contained within software applications, and within enterprises for a particular domain.
The Ontology Developer provides technical expertise following industry best practices in defining, developing, implementing, and supporting solutions toward solving the interoperability problems brought about by semantic obstacles related to definitions of business terms and software classes.
All of the Essential Functions listed below require the following physical and mental skills and interfacing with DMAS staff, other Institutional staff, other State Of Texas employees, vendors, contractors, visitors, and the general public. Mathematical and business organization knowledge and analytical thinking; verbal and written communication including diagrams/memos, hand typing on a typewriter and PC keyboard, hand drawing/writing; and visual reading on paper, white board, and chalk board; and electronic communications technologies like email, teleconferencing, and on-line collaboration tools; and traveling between several buildings requiring exposure to outside environmental elements
Must have a viable understanding of information systems, clinical operational processes, and application software consistent with that in use at the Institution and be able to communicate knowledge of same to co-workers and clients effectively. Must be adaptable to change and able to interact with co-workers and clients in a positive manner.
1. Vocabulary and Ontology Requirements Gathering & Analysis:
Identify and scope clinical and research vocabularies and ontologies based on the business problem and customer needs. Analyze requirements to develop initial design concept and technical approach. Document requirements based on client needs using appropriate standardized departmental documentation.
2. Vocabulary and Ontology Solution Design and Development:
Convert requirements into comprehensive detailed design specifications. Document detailed design specifications using appropriate standardized departmental documentation.
Create and maintain models and content for metadata repositories, vocabularies or other metadata driven products using metadata languages and tools.
In support of enterprise and domain vocabularies, create / implement and support enterprise service-based capabilities and service orchestration components for enterprise services and workflow orchestration including Java web services, event driven and model driven architectures using UML, Java, .NET and other technologies as appropriate.
Implement and support rich internet application (RIA) thin-client as well as thick client interfaces.
Incorporate quality assurance and risk mitigation activities into development efforts.
3. Production Support:
Functions may include performing rotational on-call duties in conjunction with other DMAS teams in support of data architecture platforms. Triage, escalate and coordinate full resolution and documentation of issue to user community. Propose long-term corrective measures and internal control mechanism improvements to the appropriate management team.

4. Client Management/Advisory Services:
Manage client relationship by serving as a trusted business advisor to client personnel. Assist client in identifying opportunities, plan for and scope future activities, inform client of current trends and best practices, and assist in aligning client with other institutional initiatives/activities which may provide benefit to them. Promote institutional vocabulary and ontology strategies to the client.
ENVIRONMENT/SOFTWARE TOOLS
The institution data repositories supported by the DMAS department accommodates enterprise level information architecture, data warehousing, data integration, data management and business intelligence solutions for clinical, business, and research domains.
Every department in the Institution is impacted by the information systems supported by this department. In order to address the customer requirements related to these systems, the Ontology Developer must have either personal expertise or adequate exposure in the business processes for the area they support and in the following environments and software tools to a sufficient degree to manage/lead the activities of their assignment.
Tools/Technologies/Languages:

NetBeans, LexEVS, TopLink (EclipseLink), UML tools (ArgoUML, Altova Enterprise Mission Kit), GlassFish, Oracle, Oracle Triple Store, TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, Semantic Media Wiki, OPEN-ESB and/or Mule, jBPM, JMS, Apache ServiceMix, Apache CXF, JBoss MetaMatrix, Jena, Protege, JEE 5, JDK 6, UML 2.0, OWL/RDF Schema, SPARQL, and AJAX-tools such as Google Web Toolkit or Yahoo User Interfaces, or Dojo, Java Server Pages (JSPs), Adobe Flex, ThinkMap and similar.
EDUCATION:
Required: Bachelors in Computer Science
Preferred: Masters in Computer Science and / or Clinical, Nursing, Medical Informatics, or Healthcare Informatics.
EXPERIENCE:
Required:

Seven or more years experience with designing and developing complex vocabulary and ontology applications / technologies.

Four to seven years demonstrated experience with the following:
• implementing web services (Java web services) using WSDL, BPEL, JAX-RPC
• implementing complex architectures, for example, Event Driven and Model Driven Architectures using UML and Java Technology

Preferred:
One to three years demonstrated experience with the following:
• developing and implementing vocabulary and ontology services
• development role for metadata repositories, vocabularies or other meta data driven products
• using Jena, Protégé API's or similar tool sets
• using RDF, OWL, XML, and similar metadata languages
• implementing Rich Internet Application (RIA) thin-client interfaces

Two years experience with the following:
• implementing enterprise service-based capabilities using Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) APIs and XML
• implementing service orchestration components for enterprise services and workflow orchestration

One or more years of clinical or medical informatics experience.
LICENSURE / CERTIFICATIONS:
Required: None
Preferred: Active certification in related fields

******EXPERIENCE REQUIRED*****
• Expert Informatica ETL Developer
• Certification in 1 or more Epic Clarity Data models
• Strong problem solver and communicator with ability to collaborate and understand ETL Specifications.

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