Informatica Data Lakehouse

Salt; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Our client in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, seeks an experienced Informatica Platform Administrator & Support Engineer to join a data engineering environment overseeing a Data Warehouse and Cloudera Data Lakehouse ecosystem.

You will manage Informatica BDM/DEI, PowerExchange CDC, Axon, Spark and Oracle, ensuring a stable, highly available platform and supporting batch and real-time data integration, metadata governance and production operations.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience working with Informatica platforms in administration, engineering or production support.
• Strong hands-on experience with Informatica BDM / DEI.
• Strong experience with Informatica PowerExchange and CDC.
• Experience supporting Informatica Axon and data governance/metadata environments.
• Good understanding of Spark-based ETL processing.
• Experience working with Cloudera / Data Lakehouse environments.
• Strong Oracle database and Informatica repository knowledge.
• Proven experience troubleshooting production data platforms and resolving performance issues.
• Experience working within SLA-driven, 24/7 production environments.
• Strong understanding of incident management, RCA, deployments and change management.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support Informatica BDM / DEI environments, services and configurations.
• Monitor and support ETL workflows, mappings and batch data pipelines.
• Troubleshoot failures, reruns, performance issues and SLA-related incidents.
• Support Informatica PowerExchange / CDC pipelines, including capture, apply, latency and data consistency issues.
• Administer and support Informatica Axon, including metadata, data lineage and business glossary.
• Support Spark-based ETL processing and troubleshoot runtime, memory and performance issues.
• Monitor Informatica services and runtime environments, including Tomcat and Spark.
• Support Oracle metadata repositories, including connectivity, performance, storage, backup and maintenance.
• Provide L1/L2 production support, incident management and root-cause analysis.
• Support deployments, releases, production cutovers and environment maintenance.
• Contribute to platform upgrades, patching and ongoing optimisation.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, SOPs, monitoring dashboards and operational documentation.
• Automate routine monitoring, alerting and administration activities where possible.
• Participate in 24/7 support, on-call and shift-based operations.

Skills

Problem solving

Analytical thinking

Tools

Informatica BDM/DEI

Informatica PowerExchange

Informatica Axon

Spark

Cloudera

Oracle

Job description

Location: Jeddah, KSA

My client is looking for an experienced Informatica Platform Administrator & Support Engineer to join their data engineering environment in Jeddah. This is a hands-on role supporting a modern Data Warehouse and Cloudera Data Lakehouse ecosystem, with responsibility across Informatica BDM/DEI, PowerExchange CDC, Axon, Spark and Oracle. You'll be responsible for keeping the platform stable, reliable and highly available, while supporting batch and real-time data integration, metadata governance and production operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support Informatica BDM / DEI environments, services and configurations.
• Monitor and support ETL workflows, mappings and batch data pipelines.
• Troubleshoot failures, reruns, performance issues and SLA-related incidents.
• Support Informatica PowerExchange / CDC pipelines, including capture, apply, latency and data consistency issues.
• Administer and support Informatica Axon, including metadata, data lineage and business glossary.
• Support Spark-based ETL processing and troubleshoot runtime, memory and performance issues.
• Monitor Informatica services and runtime environments, including Tomcat and Spark.
• Support Oracle metadata repositories, including connectivity, performance, storage, backup and maintenance.
• Provide L1/L2 production support, incident management and root-cause analysis.
• Support deployments, releases, production cutovers and environment maintenance.
• Contribute to platform upgrades, patching and ongoing optimisation.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, SOPs, monitoring dashboards and operational documentation.
• Automate routine monitoring, alerting and administration activities where possible.
• Participate in 24/7 support, on-call and shift-based operations.

Technology Environment

• Informatica: BDM / DEI
• CDC: Informatica PowerExchange
• Data Governance: Informatica Axon
• Big Data / Runtime: Spark, Cloudera, Tomcat
• Database: Oracle
• Architecture: Data Warehouse + Data Lakehouse

What We're Looking For

• 5-8 years' experience working with Informatica platforms in administration, engineering or production support.
• Strong hands-on experience with Informatica BDM / DEI.
• Strong experience with Informatica PowerExchange and CDC.
• Experience supporting Informatica Axon and data governance/metadata environments.
• Good understanding of Spark-based ETL processing.
• Experience working with Cloudera / Data Lakehouse environments.
• Strong Oracle database and Informatica repository knowledge.
• Proven experience troubleshooting production data platforms and resolving performance issues.
• Experience working within SLA-driven, 24/7 production environments.
• Strong understanding of incident management, RCA, deployments and change management.

The Opportunity

This is a strong opportunity for an Informatica specialist who wants to work across data integration, CDC, governance and Data Lakehouse technologies within a large-scale enterprise data environment in Saudi Arabia.