SREEKANTH GORANTLA

[email protected] Contact No: + 917358510788

Professional Experience
Over 11 years of IT experience specializing in Software Analysis, ETL Datastage Developer and
Datastage Admin, Talend 7.3 database querying using SQL and Teradata, reporting and application
performance tuning & IT development, maintenance and integration of client server application.
11 years of experience as a Technical analyst, Developer and administrator having solid experience
in Banking, Finance, Government Sector and Automobile domains.

Completed the Talend Data Integration and Developer Certification.

Professional Summary
• Excellent Experience in Designing, Developing, Documenting, Testing of ETL jobs and mappings in
Server and Parallel jobs using Data Stage to populate tables in Data Warehouse and Data marts.
• Expert in designing Parallel jobs using various stages like Join, Merge, Lookup, Remove duplicates,
Filter, Dataset, Lookup file set, Complex flat file, Modify, Aggregator, XML.
• Expert in designing Server jobs using various types of stages like Sequential file, ODBC, Hashed
file, Aggregator, Transformer, Sort, Link Partitioned and Link Collector.
• Expert in working with Data Stage Manager, Designer, Administrator, and Director.
• Strong in Data warehousing concepts, dimensional Star Schema and Snowflakes Schema
methodologies.
• Expertise in creating mappings in TALEND using tMap, tJoin, tReplicate, tParallelize,
tConvertType,, tflowtoIterate, tfilelist tAggregate, tSortRow, tFlowMeter, tLogCatcher,
tRowGenerator, tNormalize, tDenormalize, tJava, tJavaRow, tJavaFlex, tRunJob, tAggregateRow,
tWarn, tMysqlScd, tFilter, tDie, tChronometerStart , tChronometerStop, TContextLoad..etc.

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 • Performed Migration and up gradation of Datastage Project from version 7.5 to 8.5 and 8.5 to 11.3.
• Worked on ETL migration from DataStage11.3 to Talend Open Studio 7.3 project, handled various
issues while code migration.
• Hands on experience in migration and upgrade ETL environments from Infosphere lower versions
to higher versions
• Experience in multiple Global implementations with On-site offshore coordination, design, and
development and roll out, data Integration and Data warehousing Projects.
• Extensively worked on IBM Infosphere Information Server Administration and Datastage
Development.
• Experience in both production support projects and Development projects.
• Experience in production support projects resolving issues within the SLA's.
• Expertise in writing UNIX shell scripts and hands on experience with scheduling of shell scripts
using AUTOSYS
• Performance tuning of ETL applications using configuration file tuning in areas involving
processes such as I/O, scratch space optimization, sort, lookup, join and memory configuration.
• Proven track record in troubleshooting Data Stage jobs and addressing production issues like
performance tuning and enhancement.
• Loaded Data into Oracle Tables using SQL Loader.
• Strong Debugging skills in Unix shell script and PL/SQL programs to identify bug and
implementing code changes.
• Strong knowledge of Data warehouse architecture and designing Star schema, Snowflake schema,
Fact and Dimensional Tables, Physical and Logical Data modeling.
• Good knowledge of credit Risk management, Data Warehousing concepts (including working
knowledge on business intelligence tools) and process Modeling using various modeling
languages.
• Proficient in understanding business process/requirements and translating them into technical
requirements and also responsible in preparing Unit Test Case documents and integration Test
Cases.
• Demonstrate a willingness, interest and aptitude to learn new technologies and skills.

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 Professional Experience
• Working as a Senior Officer in Citi Bank USA Chennai from Oct 2021 to Till Date.
• Worked as a Senior consultant in Virtusa Pvt. Ltd(Polaris), Chennai from Mar 2017 to Sep 2021.
• Worked as Datastage Specialist in Ominx international LLC , Abu Dhabi,UAE from Dec 2015 to
Dec’2016.
• Worked as a Sr. Technical Consultant in Ford information technology services India, Chennai
from Apr 2012 to Dec 2015.
• Worked as a Data Stage Developer in R Systems International Ltd, Noida from June 2011 to Mar
2012.

Academics
• M.Sc from Sri Venkateswara University, with a First class.

Technical Environment

envir ETL Tool : Talend 7.3, Data Stage 11.3, 9.2, 8.7, 8.5,
RDBMS : Teradata 13 and Oracle 11g & 12c
Operating Systems : Windows7, 2014 Server, UNIX (SunOS 5.10),AIX
Monitoring Tool : Autosys, Negios
Version Control Tool : AccuRev,RLM,Service now,GIT, Bit bucket,Jenkins
Languages : SQL, Unix Shell Scripting
Reporting Tool : Business Objects Info View
Tools : HP ALM, BMC Remedy tool and Request Center, JIRA
Project Profile

ETS–Data Services(Risk assignment) Mar’ 2017 to Till Date

CITI BANK,USA
Client

Role (Team Size) TECH LEAD(5)

Technologies Involved IBM Datastage 11.3,Oracle 12c, SQL, Windows,

Unix, Autosys, HP ALM Quality Center, BMC Remedy
tool, Request Center and Service Now

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 Description :
Citi Bank is one of the leading Financial Service Company which includes trade life cycles
in the USA, with $ 280 billion in assets and over 24 million customers. This data warehouse is
developed for Auto Finance Group, involved in loans and leases of new and pre-owned cars. Citi
Bank maintains its huge operational databases on a variety of platform. The data from various
sources is Extracted, Transformed and Loaded into OLAP using Datastage. Business analysis
reports were generated using Cognos and deployed on intranet web.

Responsibilities :
• Involved in the design, data modeling, development and testing phases of various projects
and enhancement
• Analysis and design of ETL processes using Talend.
• Designed the Target Schema definition and Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) using
Data stage.
• Responsible for creating High Level Design (HLD) and Application Interface Design (LLD)
documents.
• Participated in Daily status meetings and conducting internal and external reviews as well as
formal walkthroughs among various teams and documenting the proceedings.
• Extensive knowledge of Job Information Language (JIL) and capabilities to recommend
suggestions that will comply with internal standards and CA best practices.
• Stopping and Starting of IBM Infosphere Information Server and Datastage Application.
• Worked with the customers and implement & test business continuity & DR Failover plans.
• Project managed with the customers Service Manager and suppliers to agree and implement an
effective operations model for the infrastructure.
• Extensively used slowly changing dimension Type 2 approach to maintain history in database.
• Analysis, requirements gathering, functional/technical specification, development, deploying
and testing.

Minister of Interior (MOI),UAE Dec 2015 to Dec 2016 date

Client SITA Project,UAE

Role (Team Size) DATASTAGE SPECIALIST (4)

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 Technologies Involved IBM Infosphere DataStage11.3 and 8.7, Oracle 11g
Windows, Unix, Business Object Info View, AccuRev,
Nagios.
Description :
The creation of the Ministry of Interior (MOI) came parallel to the creation of the state, as the
MOI was viewed as a fundamental federal entity. Total unification of the police and security organs
remained as an essential target which gained general consensus. His Highness, the President of
the UAE, together with his brothers, their Highnesses the Supreme Council Members & Rulers of
the emirates were the most enthusiastic about attaining this goal. Minister of interior is
government department. The department main objective of the project is to capture the visa,
residence, emirates ID, blacklist data and passport data and loading to the oracle data base. In the
project the data was coming various Source system like oracle and text files. Congo’s is used as the
reporting tool.

Responsibilities :
• Stopping and Starting of IBM Infosphere Information Server and Datastage Application.
• Active participation in decision making and QA meetings and regularly interacted with the Business
Analysts &development team to gain a better understanding of the Business Process, Requirements &
Design.
• Jobs migration between different environments. (DEV/QA/STAGE/PROD).
• Worked with the customers and implement & test business continuity & DR Failover plans.
• Project managed with the customers Service Manager and suppliers to agree and implement an effective
operations model for the infrastructure.
• Created Datastage jobs using different stages like Transformer, Aggregator, Sort, Join, Merge, Lookup,
Data Set, Funnel, Remove Duplicates, Copy, Modify, Filter, Change Data Capture, Change Apply, Sample,
Surrogate Key, Column Generator, Row Generator, Etc.
• Interacted with End users to understand the business requirements and in identifying data sources
• Developed several UNIX scripts to perform automation of stopping and starting the information server
and taking the regular backup of xmeta database and checking the performance of the server.
• Provided production support and performed enhancement on existing multiple projects.
• Involved in migration and implementation of data stage code from development to Test and Production

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 • Load balanced on both servers and high availability.
• Perform daily system monitoring and verifying the integrity and availability of all server resources.
Systems and key processes.
• Monitoring the Datastage job on daily basis by running the UNIX shell script and made a force start
whenever job fails.

Enterprise Datawarehouse(EDW) April 2012 to Dec2015

Client Ford Motor Company

Role (Team Size) Data Stage Consultant

Technologies Involved IBM Infosphere DataStage 8.5, Teradata 13, Unix ,

Autosys, SQL

Description :
Ford is the major manufacturer of motor vehicles. The main objective of the project is to
outsource the Strategy, Design, Development, Coding, Testing, Deployment and Maintenance of the
Enterprise Data warehouse. This Project would cover the subject areas such as Vehicle Product
Offering (VPO), Volume Mix Rates (VMR), Posts Structure Cost (PSC), and Account for Production
Material (APM) and Control Vehicle Financials (CVF). Data from various source systems is
gathered into a staging area, where data is cleansed and then finally moved into an Enterprise
Data warehouse Database. Datastage is used for extracting data from various Sources to Staging
area; Staging area to DW. Business Objects is used as the reporting tool.

Responsibilities :

• Collaboration with the team in low level design document for mapping the files from source to target and
implementing business logic.
• Worked on all phases of data warehouse development lifecycle, from gathering requirements to testing,
implementation, and support.
• Involved in documentation for Design Review, Code Review and Production Implementation.
• Collaborated with EDW team in, Low Level design document for mapping the files from source to target
and implementing business logic.

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 • Coordinate with team members and administer all onsite and offshore work packages.
• Prepared documentation including requirement specification
• Worked with Developers to troubleshoot and resolve issues in job logic as well as performance.
• Participated in weekly status meetings.
• Implemented multi-node declaration using configuration files (APT_Config_file) for performance
enhancement.
• Jobs migration between different environments. (DEV/QA/STAGE/PROD) by using ACCEREV Tool.
• Debug, test and fix the transformation logic applied in the parallel jobs
• Successfully implemented pipeline and partitioning parallelism techniques and ensured load balancing of
data.
• Deployed different partitioning methods like Hash by column, Round Robin, Entire, Modulus, and Range
for bulk data loading and for performance boost.
• Scheduled the jobs using AutoSys

Health Hero Insurance June 2011 to Mar’2012

Client R Systems International Ltd

Role (Team Size) Data Stage Developer

Technologies Involved IBM Infosphere DataStage 8.5, Teradata, Unix ,

Autosys, SQL
Description :
Health Insurance ETL provides market intelligence and benchmark databases, decision support
solutions, and research services for managing the cost and quality of healthcare. The company
applies these capabilities to improve policy and management decision making for many of the
nation's leading employers, government agencies, health plans, hospitals and provider networks,
and Pharmaceutical companies. Company applies its healthcare, database management, analytical
consulting and technical expertise to build information solutions for decision makers in all sectors
of the industry. The data from source database is gathered from oracle8i, flat files, transformed
and loaded to the target database.

Responsibilities :

• Created queries using join and case statement to validate data in different databases.

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 • Created queries to compare data between two databases to make sure data is matched.
• Used the ETL Data Stage Director to schedule and running the jobs, testing and debugging its
components & monitoring performance statistics.
• Performed the Unit testing for jobs developed to ensure that it meets the requirements.
• Created shared container to incorporate complex business logic in job.
• Created and modified batch scripts to ftp files from different server to data stage server.
• Developed Test Plan that included the scope of the release, entrance and exit criteria and overall test
strategy. Created detailed Test Cases and Test sets and executed them manually
• Created Job Sequencers to automate the job.
• Create parameter set to assign a value to job at run time.
• Used Data Stage Manager to manage the Metadata repository and for import/export of jobs

(Sreekanth G)

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