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Sr. ETL Developer

USM Open · verified Oct 24, 2026
On-site Reston Full-time Senior Data Engineering

At a glance

Senior Data Engineering role at USM. Reston · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $142,500–$193,650 across the United States.

Estimated pay

USM has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.

$142,500 – $193,650
What the middle half of senior data engineering roles in the United States paid, among postings that did state a salary.
Worked out from 470 postings that stated pay, median $162,500. Last updated Oct 24, 2026.
RoleData Engineering
SenioritySenior
LocationReston
WorkplaceOn-site
EmploymentFull-time
PostedFeb 6, 2017 · 9y ago
Role brief

dataroles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Build Ab Initio ETL code that moves data into and out of DB2 sources and targets
  • Create high-throughput jobs for both historical loads and daily incremental updates
  • Develop data warehouse, operational store and data mart solutions using Inmon or Kimball methods
  • Tune SQL and ETL performance, write UNIX shell scripts, and document code to established practices
  • Work through design problems with teammates, guide others, and deliver scheduled work

What you bring

  • At least ten years of overall industry experience, including eight years building data integration, warehouse and BI systems
  • At least five recent years using Ab Initio, SQL, UNIX shell scripting and data modeling methods
  • Eight years with relational databases, COBOL, XML, messaging tools and columnar databases
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, DSS, information engineering, business administration or a related discipline

Who this fits

This senior hands-on role suits an experienced ETL developer who can work independently and with a team, resolve design issues, and mentor colleagues. You must be local to Reston and attend an in-person interview. The contract is listed as lasting more than twelve months.

From the employer

Businesses face challenges every day building responsive and agile IT capabilities to grow and stay ahead. Since everyone has access to the same tools, your competitive advantage directly depends on how you apply technology – on the people leading, supporting and optimizing your IT initiatives. USM Business Systems, established in 1999, is an industry-leading private talent management firm, specializing in providing unique IT turnkey solutions, IT staffing solutions, and Talent management insights, enabling you to sustain a truly competitive advantage in this fast-moving environment. USM has offices throughout the US and offshore delivery centers in India. USM is a certified Minority Business Enterprise and is a CMMi Level 3 Organization.

USM is recognized as one of the fastest growing IT Temporary Staffing firms in the US and most recently was ranked #3 on the list of the Top Temporary Staffing firms in the DC Metro Area – Washington Business Journal (2016).

Job Title: Sr. ETL Developer

Location: Reston, VA ---Locals Only

Duration: 12+ months

F2F Interview

looking for a Senior Ab Initio ETL Developer with proven past experience in

1) Creating ETL code for data ingestion and data extraction for DB2 sources and targets.

2) Creating high throughput initial historical and daily incremental ETL jobs.

3) Prior experience with Inmon and Ralph Kimball method Operational Data Store, Data Warehouse and Data Marts

4) Excellent SQL, UNIX shell scripting and performance tuning skills.

5) Should be a team player to deliver high quality deliverables within schedule.

6) Following best practices in developing ETL code, documentation, etc.

Qualifications/Required Skills:

• Candidate must have ten + (10+) years of overall industry experience

• Candidate must have eight+ (8+) years of experience of hands-on work designing and implementing data integration, data warehouse and business intelligence systems

• Candidate must have eight+ (8+) years of experience with various RBDMS, Cobol (very important skill), XML, MQ/MB and Columnar databases

• Candidate must have five+ (5+) years of recent hands-on experience with Ab Initio ETL tool, SQL, UNIX Shell scripting and data modeling skills like 3rd normal form and dimensional modeling

• Candidate must have four+ (4+) years of Data quality, Data profiling, data lineage, metadata and promoting high data quality data integration and date warehouse interfaces

• Candidate must have four+ (4+) years of experience with Rocket shuttle or TOAD and IBM Data Studio

• Candidate must have four+ (4+) years of business intelligence reporting experience with top industry leading Business Intelligence reporting (highly preferred)

• Candidate must have four+ (4+) years of experience working with Health Insurance (Payer) organizations or a highly related field including knowledge of HL7 and / or related Claims, Enrollment, and Benefits Administration industry data models / taxonomies is preferred (not required)

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, decision support systems (DSS), information engineering, business administration, or other related discipline. Master’s degree in a related discipline is a plus.

• Proven ability to work closely with others, to work through design challenges, to solve problems, and to mentor and guide.

• Proven ability to work in agile framework, both independently and in groups as a self-motivated and highly engaged contributor to deliver work on time and escalate issues impacting the deliverable end dates.

• HealthCare experience a plus

• Big Data experience with Sqoop, Hive, Impala, MapReduce, HDFS, NoSQL Databases, Kafka, etc. a plus

If you are interested in the below position please forward your profile to Saikirann@usmsystems(dot)com or call me on 703-880-4146.

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