Hiring For Data Integration - Senior Associate - Hybrid

Grant Thornton; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to administer Informatica IDMC, design ELT/ETL workflows with Snowflake and dbt, and implement scalable data integration patterns. You will optimize costs, manage RBAC, and drive CI/CD automation.

The role requires hands-on experience with Informatica IDMC, Snowflake, and dbt, plus SQL, Python, and cloud platforms (Azure/AWS). Agile delivery experience is preferred and mentorship responsibilities are included.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data integration experience in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on admin of Informatica IDMC platform and components.
• Strong Snowflake ELT/ETL development and maintenance experience.
• Proficient in dbt for data transformations and modeling.
• SQL and Python for data processing and automation.
• Experience with API-based data ingestion and diverse source systems.
• Knowledge of RBAC, authentication patterns, and secrets management.
• Familiar with cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS) and FinOps concepts.
• Agile/Scrum delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, and maintain the Informatica platform including upgrades and monitoring.
• Design and maintain ELT/ETL workflows using Informatica, dbt and Snowflake.
• Develop reusable templates/modules for onboarding and delivery.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for data integration assets and deployments.
• Manage security, access, and incident remediation on the platform.
• Optimize costs and performance of Informatica and Snowflake workloads.
• Implement data quality checks and observability in pipelines.
• Handle service requests, incidents, RCA, and runbooks; weekly reporting.
• Mentor associate engineers and contribute to data integration standards.

Skills

5+ years data integration

Informatica IDMC

Snowflake

dbt

SQL

Python

API-based ingestion

ETL/ELT patterns

CI/CD for data

RBAC security

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelors in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Informatica IDMC

dbt

Snowflake

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, and maintain the Informatica platform (Informatica IDMC), including environment setup, upgrades, patching, connectivity, monitoring, and overall platform health.
• Design, develop, and maintain ELT and ETL data integration workflows using Informatica, dbt and Snowflake, ensuring efficient, reusable, and well‑documented transformation logic.
• Build and maintain scalable ingestion, orchestration, and transformation patterns to integrate data from diverse sources into the enterprise data platform and develop reusable templates/modules to accelerate onboarding and delivery.
• Build and maintain CI/CD for data integration assets and pipeline deployments, promoting consistent, automated, and reliable releases.
• Partner with security and governance stakeholders to administer platform access, including role‑based access control (RBAC), user onboarding, connection management, and remediation of security incidents on the Informatica platform.
• Optimize cost and performance in Informatica through proactive resource and IPU monitoring and mapping, transformation and task optimization.
• Optimize cost and performance across Snowflake warehouses, queries, and data loads; recommend and deploy schema changes (tables, views, materialized views, etc.); and perform query tuning and optimization for ELT and ETL workloads.
• Implement data quality and data observability checks within integration pipelines and integrate with enterprise monitoring and alerting.
• Manage service requests, change requests, and incident management, including Major Incident Management (MIM) with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and remediation; create and maintain documentation for Informatica configurations, dbt models, integration workflows, and operational runbooks.
• Weekly operational reporting on service request status, incident management, RCA tickets, platform improvements, and platform consumption (FinOps) monitoring.
• Mentor associate engineers; contribute to data integration standards, best practices, and documentation.

Skills

• Strong data integration and platform engineering background with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Hands‑on experience administering the Informatica platform (Informatica IDMC, CIH) is required.
• Hands‑on Snowflake experience is required, with a focus on ELT and ETL development and maintenance.
• Strong hands‑on experience with dbt for building and maintaining data transformation models.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python for data processing and automation.
• Proven experience with API‑based data ingestion (REST APIs, JSON/XML) and integrating diverse source systems.
• Strong understanding of ETL/ELT patterns, data modeling, and the end‑to‑end data lifecycle.
• Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD and environment management for data integration solutions.
• Strong operational discipline: incident management, problem management, and release/change practices; familiarity with cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS).
• Agile/Scrum delivery exposure.

Education / Professional Experience/ Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Hands‑on experience administering and supporting the Informatica platform (Informatica IDMC) in enterprise environments.
• Hands‑on experience with Snowflake and dbt for ELT and ETL development and maintenance.
• Experience with enterprise authentication/authorization patterns, RBAC, and secrets management; exposure to FinOps practices for platform consumption.