XML Conversion Specialist

Core Roles & Responsibilities 

• Data Transformation: Convert raw data and electronic documents (PDF, Word, HTML, text) into standard, well-structured XML formats. 
• Schema Compliance: Review, analyze, and write XML tags based on defined Document Type Definitions (DTDs), XML Schemas (XSD), and project guidelines. 
• Scripting & Automation: Execute and maintain XML transformations utilizing technologies like EEL, XSLT, XPath, and XQuery. 
• Data Validation: Run structural validation using XML parsers and debug formatting errors, missing attributes, or parsing exceptions. 
• Manual Clean-up: Review parsed files and manually correct text alignments, missing tags, or character conversion glitches that automated parsers miss. 
• Quality Assurance: Collaborate with QA teams to strictly enforce data integrity, turnaround timelines, and specific client delivery standards. 

Required Skills & Qualifications 

• Technical Proficiency: Deep understanding of XML syntax, DTDs, XML Schemas (XSD), and data-mapping techniques. 
• Tool Competency: Familiarity with XML editors (such as Epsilon, Epsilon EEL, XMLSpy, or Notepad++). 
• Transformative Languages: Working knowledge of XSLT and XPath for document structure modification. 
• Core Competencies: Strong analytical mind, multi-tasking skills, and a high sense of attention to detail to spot coding anomalies. 
• Experience: 3–5 years of professional experience in data conversion and digital publishing workflows is highly preferred. 

Preferred Skills (Bonus) 

• Regular expressions (Regex) to assist with large-scale find-and-replace actions. 
• Develop Macro in Epsilon Editor. 
• EEL Coding in Epsilon Editor.