We are hiring a remarkable Software Engineer to join our stellar team at ICON in Chennai.
Growing your career as a Full Time Software Engineer is an amazing opportunity to develop excellent skills.
If you are strong in creativity, cooperation and have the right drive for the job, then apply for the position of Software Engineer at ICON today!

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation. From molecule to medicine, we advance clinical research providing outsourced services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisations.

With our patients at the centre of all that we do, we help to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life.

Our people are our greatest strength, are at the core of our culture, and the driving force behind our success. ICON people have a mission to succeed and a passion that ensures what we do, we do well.

The Role:

- 24x7 support for applications built on Oracle/UNIX, Cloudera, DMX, Informatica platforms.
- Responsible to monitor daily, weekly and monthly production scheduled jobs using Autosys.
- Work with respective teams in case of job failures or delays in processing and communicate the same to internal/external clients on a timely manner.
- Responsible for building scalable, cost-effective, and robust strategies in support of the overall achievement of corporate, business, and department goals.
- Responsible for implementation, integration, testing, validation, documentation, review, maintenance, and accessibility of resources which enable effective and reliable data analytics, data visualization, and business intelligence.
- Troubleshoots and fixes issues in Oracle PL/SQL, Unix/ Linux.
- Investigate and fixes issues related in Hadoop Ecosystem Cloudera CDP (Preferred), HiveSQL, Impala, Apache Spark (PySpark)



with complex logics and deliver the data to client within agreed amount of time to meet the service level agreement.
- Performance tune the SQL/ Hadoop loads with both batch and near real-time data movements to ensure timely delivery.
- Monitoring and troubleshooting issues with the data loads to S3, Athena databases in the Cloud.
- Solves any issues with the performance and functionality on all the production applications.
- Ensures daily deliverables complete in time for clients and monitors schedules that involves adjusting the priority of the jobs, usage of space, memory, and resources.
- Provides optimal solutions through understanding of the Enterprise Data warehouse (EDW).
- Resolving production issues and effectively communicates with stakeholders with root cause analysis, actions taken, required changes, or new requirements and mitigation plan.
- Automates any repeated manual process using Autosys scheduler and Unix/ Linux.
- Discuss all production support aspects with the offshore/ onshore team and provide status updates to management.

You will need:

- 5 Years of work experience in IT industry including 2 years in IT Production Support
- Work with onshore, offshore outsourced vendor to an SLA and execution of critical situations.
- Experience in working with development teams, production control, job scheduler (Autosys) and coordinating with multiple departments within the organization
- 24x7 Support environment.
- 5 Years of experience in Oracle PL/SQL, UNIX / LINUX/ Python Scripting.
- 2+ years of experience in Hadoop Ecosystem Hive, Impala, Pyspark. (Cloudera – CDP Preferred).
- 2+ years of experience in scheduling Autosys jobs.




- Knowledge in cloud platform/ tools (S3, Athena) concepts and trends. AWS preferred.
- Experience with software Engineering best practices, including but not limited to version control (GitHub – Preferred)
- Strong customer service skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
- Expert troubleshooting skills.

Benefits of Working in ICON:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

We offer very market-competitive salary packages. And to keep them competitive, we regularly benchmark them against our competitors. Our annual bonuses reflect delivery of performance goals – both ours and yours.
We also provide a range of health-related benefits to employees and their families and offer competitive retirement plans – and related benefits such as life assurance – so you can save and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
But beyond the competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits, you’ll benefit from an environment where you are encouraged to fulfil your sense of purpose and drive lasting change.

ICON is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know through the form below.

Benefits of working as a Software Engineer in Chennai:

● Learning opportunities
● Advancement opportunities
● Competitive salary

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