Informatica IDMC Data Warehouse Analyst//F2F interview

4 Scope of Services

Responsible for gathering and assessing business information needs and preparing system requirements. Performs analyses, development, and evaluation of data mining in the Snowflake cloud data warehouse environment which includes data design, database architecture, and data management utilizing Informatica PowerCenter, Intelligent Data Quality, and Enterprise Data Catalog. Uses data mining and data analysis tools including Power BI and Tableau. Reviews and validates data loaded into the data warehouse for accuracy. Interacts with user community to produce reporting requirements. Provides technical consulting to users of the various data stores and advises users on conflicts and inappropriate data usage. Responsible for prototyping solutions, building solutions, preparing test scripts, and conducting tests for Snowflake data population including data replication, extraction, loading, cleansing, and transforming the data. Responsible for enterprise data modeling. Maintains knowledge of software tools, languages, scripts, and shells that effectively support the Snowflake cloud data warehouse environment.

5 Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field. Or equivalent work experience.

6 Experience

A minimum of 7 years of IT work experience utilizing data management tools, business intelligence tools, and data warehousing. Extensive experience with Informatica PowerCenter and Snowflake is preferred.

7 Primary Job Duties/ Tasks

1. Strong Data Integration and Data Warehousing experience with Informatica IDMC tools (IDMC tools like IDMC CDI, MI, CAI, etc.,)
2. Strong Experience with Data Integration tasks like extraction, transformation, and load (ETL or ELT) tasks
3. Experience administering IDMC platform, Secure Agent Infrastructure and Snowflake Data Cloud platform for statewide adoption
4. Knowledge of and skill in relational database platforms including DB2, SQL Server, Snowflake and Oracle
5. Analyzes transactional data stores and develops data warehouse models to optimize the warehouse for reporting and analytics.
6. Experience with Redhat Linux application administration like security patching applications, managing disk filesystems, managing wrapper and auto-startup scripts.
7. Strong Experience with IDMC Connectors to perform Change Data Capture solutions like PowerExchange and other widely used connectors like relational, ServiceNow, etc.,
8. Assists with the development and maintenance of methods and practices documentation.
9. Experience with IBM Mainframes COBOL, JCL, and DB2 analysis.

8 Job Specific Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

1. Experience designing data models for Business Intelligence tools like Power BI and Cognos.
2. Experience with Informatica on-premises products like PowerCenter and Data Quality.
3. Strong development experience with Snowflake Data Cloud
4. Prototypes, builds and tests Power BI and Cognos reports/dashboards.
5. Experience with IDMC Cloud Administration and Snowflake Data Cloud Administration.
6. Ensures data warehouse metadata is collected and maintained.
7. Experience with Informatica IDMC Cloud Performance Tuning
8. Experience with Snowflake Data Cloud Performance Tuning

9 General Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs):

The submitted candidate must be able to apply common knowledge, skills, and abilities in the following areas:

1. Communication: Have the ability to clearly convey information, in both written and verbal formats, to individuals or groups in a wide variety of settings (i.e.; project team meetings, management presentations, etc.). Must have the ability to effectively listen and process information provided by others.

2. Customer Service: Works well with clients and customers (i.e.; business office, public, or other agencies). Able to assess the needs of the customer, provide information or assistance to satisfy expectations or resolve a problem.

3. Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions.

4. Flexibility: Is open to change, new processes (or process improvement), and new information. Has the ability to adapt in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles. Ability to receive and give constructive criticism and maintain effective work relationships with others.

5. Interpersonal: Shows friendliness, courtesy, understanding, and politeness to others.

6. Leadership: Motivates, encourages, and challenges others. Is able to adapt leadership styles in a variety of situations.

7. Problem Solving: Able to identify, evaluate, and use sound judgement to generate and evaluate alternative actions, and make recommendations as accordingly.

8. Team Building: Encourages, inspires, and guides others toward accomplishing the common goal.

9. Quality Assurance: Knowledge of the ideologies, techniques and tools for quality assurance and control. The ability to put the ideologies, techniques, and tools into practice.