Datastage Technical Lead - 6 Month Contract

Responsibilities: 
Oversight of design and coding standards. 
Review software solution design documents to assure designs are in line with business requirements and technical standards 
Oversee process to sample review code deliveries to ensure alignment with best practice. Conduct review processes (eg design walk through, code review, unit or system test audit) to ensure deliveries are to quality. 
Provide input as required to base system technology requirements including hardware, software, network bandwidth requirements. 
Ensure adequate unit and system test plans are in place, and are being employed to prevent failures, target and eradicate root cause for repeat failures 
Build and maintain constructive working relationships with technology delivery resource in partner organisations 
Formalise software acceptance from partners and when necessary provide technical assistance to development teams 
Identify opportunities to deliver technology improvements in systems and initiate work to do so where cost-benefit justified. 

Skills and knowledge: 
Understanding of systems life cycles and system integration 
Track record of collaboration and re-use of solutions in global organisations 
IBM InfoSphere - specifically DataStage 
DB2 
SOA - Web Services 
WebSphere Application Server 
XML and associated technologies