Kettle Engineer

General Description
Were seeking a Kettle Engineer to design operate and continuously improve our Pentaho Data Integration (PDI/Kettle) platform and data movement processes that underpin businesscritical workflows. You will own endtoend lifecycle managementfrom environment build and configuration to orchestration monitoring and supportpartnering closely with application teams production operations and data stakeholders. The ideal candidate combines strong handson Kettle expertise with solid SQL automation and production support practices in a fastmoving highly collaborative environment.
Primary Responsibilities
Platform ownership: Install configure harden and upgrade Kettle/PDI components (e.g. Spoon) across dev/prod.
Process engineering: Migrate re-engineer and optimize jobs and transformations for existing transformations.
Reliability & support: Document all workflows including ownership and escalation protocols. Knowledge transfer with Automation and Application Support teams.
Observability: Implement proactive monitoring logging and alerting for the Kettle platform including all dependent processes.
Collaboration: Partner with application data and infrastructure teams to deliver improvements to existing designs
Required Qualifications
Kettle/PDI expertise: Experience installing and configuring a Kettle instance (server and client tools repositories parameters security and upgrades).
Kettle/PDI expertise: Experience creating maintaining and supporting Kettle processes (jobs/transformations error handling recovery and performance tuning).
4 years handson SQL (writing/diagnosing and optimizing queries).
Strong communication skills for both technical and nontechnical audiences; effective at documenting and sharing knowledge.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience integrating Kettle with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure); familiarity with containers or Windows/Linux server administration.
Exposure to monitoring/observability stacks (e.g. DataDog CloudWatch or similar).
Scripting/automation for operations (Python PowerShell or Bash); experience with REST APIs within Kettle.
Background in financial services or other regulated/missioncritical environments.
Key Outcomes (First 90 Days)
Stand up or validate a hardened Kettle environment with baseline monitoring and runbooks.
Migrate at least two highvalue Kettle workflows using shared templates and standardized error handling.

rate range -$70-$75