Specialist, IT

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. 

Perform development work and technical support related to our data transformation and ETL jobs in support of a global data warehouse. Requires the ability to work independently, as well as in cooperation with a variety of customers and other technical professionals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

This section contains a list of five to eight primary responsibilities of this role that account for 5% or more of the work. The incumbent will perform other duties assigned.

• Development of new ETL/data transformation jobs, using PySpark and IBM DataStage in AWS.

• Enhancement and support on existing ETL/data transformation jobs.

• Perform technical code reviews for peers moving code into production. 

• Perform and review integration testing before production migrations. 

• Provide high level of technical support, and perform root cause analysis for problems experienced within area of functional responsibility. 

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. List knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• 4+ years of ETL experience. A certification with less experience may also be considered. Experience with PySpark or IBM DataStage preferred. 

• Strong knowledge of SQL fundamentals. 

• Able to write SQL code sufficient for most business requirements for pulling data from sources, applying rules to the data, and stocking target data

• Proven track record in troubleshooting ETL jobs and addressing production issues like performance tuning, reject handling, and ad-hoc reloads.

• Proficient in developing optimization strategies for ETL processes.

• Strong knowledge of core Python programming for data transformation.

• Beginning PySpark skills. Can read/understand existing code and do simple debug and code fixes. 

• Basic AWS technical support skills. Has ability to log in, find existing jobs and check run status and logs

• Will run and monitor jobs running via Control-M

• Can create clear and concise documentation and communications. 

• Ability to coordinate and aggressively follow up on incidents and problems, perform diagnosis, and provide resolution to minimize service interruption 

• Ability to prioritize and work on multiple tasks simultaneously

• Effective in cross-functional and global environments to manage multiple tasks and assignments concurrently with effective communication skills.

• A self-starter who can work well independently and on team projects.

Education and/or Experience:

Include the education and experience that is necessary to perform the job satisfactorily.

• Bachelors of Science in computer science or equivalent

• 4+ years of ETL and SQL experience

• 2+ years of python experience

• 1+ years of AWS and unix experience. 

Preferred certifications: 

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner  Certified DataStage Professional Python programming certification

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

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