Data Warehouse Developer

IO Datasphere, Inc.; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IO Datasphere, Inc. is seeking a data integration specialist to migrate assets from Informatica PowerCenter to IDMC and contribute to ETL design and data warehouse initiatives.

You will develop mappings, validate data quality, and collaborate with IT and business teams to implement scalable solutions. The role involves optimizing warehouse performance, ensuring data security, and adhering to project lifecycles.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience migrating assets from Informatica PowerCenter to IDMC.
• Knowledge of data warehouse best practices and standards.
• Moderate skills with relational and dimensional data models.
• Moderate skills with slowly changing dimensions.
• Strong verbal and written communication, including meetings with customers and technical staff.
• Knowledge of project development life cycle (planning, analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation, support).
• Experience in requirements gathering.
• Ability to collaborate and work as part of a team.
• Ability to navigate a large organization to achieve results.
• Ability to initiate and manage complex projects of varying durations.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and identify questions, with supervision as needed.
• Experience with COBOL/DB2 mainframe environments.

Responsibilities

• Migrate mappings, mapplets, sessions, and workflows from Informatica PowerCenter to IDMC.
• Assist in ETL design, development, testing, maintenance, metadata, and data warehouse initiatives.
• Develop ETL mapping specifications for loading into data warehouse and ensuring data reliability.
• Improve data warehouse performance and ensure data security.
• Collaborate with IT and business users to understand requirements and implement solutions.
• Perform data warehouse design and testing, including metadata and repository creation.
• Develop processes for entering information into data warehousing systems and ensuring data reliability.
• Seek continuous improvement in data warehouse performance and security.

Skills

Informatica PowerCenter to IDMC

Data warehouse design

Relational data models

Slowly changing dimensions

Project lifecycle

Requirements gathering

Team collaboration

MS Office

COBOL

DB2

SQL Server

Oracle

Kimball methodology

Tools

MS Office

MS Visio

MS Outlook

Job description

IO Datasphere, Inc. has been providing project management, software development and IT staff augmentation services to our clients in the Midwest and throughout the U.S. since 1996. We are an approved vendor on contract to provide software development and IT staff augmentation services for the States of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. We also provide these services to businesses, as well as local and county governments, in the Midwest and nationwide.

Tasks

• Responsible for migrating mappings, mapplets, sessions, and workflows from Informatica PowerCenter to IDMC.
• Assist in ETL design, development, testing, maintenance, metadata, and implementation of data warehouse initiatives. Understand user requirements and implement solutions that ensure requirements can be achieved through high quality deliverables.
• Develop ETL mapping specifications for loading information into the data warehouse and for ensuring reliability of information loaded.
• Seek continuous improvement in performance & tuning of data warehouse and ensure security of data.
• Works with other IT technical teams and Business users to understand requirements and recommend & implement solutions.
• Perform data warehouse design and testing, including data design, database architecture, metadata, and repository creation.
• Develop processes and procedures for entering information into data warehousing systems and for ensuring reliability of information entered.
• Seek continuous improvement in performance of data warehouse and ensure security of data.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required

• Hands on experience migrating complex assets from Informatica PowerCenter to IDMC
• Knowledge in data warehouse best practice standards
• Moderate skills working with relational and dimensional data models
• Moderate skills working with slowly changing dimensions
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including facilitation of meetings with customers and technical staff
• Knowledge and skills in the project development life cycle process (i.e., planning, analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation, support)
• Demonstrated knowledge and skills in requirements gathering
• Effective interpersonal relations skills, ability to effectively collaborate with others and work as part of a team
• Skills in navigating a large organization in order to accomplish results
• Ability to initiate and follow through on complex projects of both short- and long-term duration
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently, assume responsibility for job development and training, researching and resolving questions and problems, requesting supervisor input and keeping supervisor informed
• Proficiency with MS Office suite, MS Visio, and MS Outlook
• Experience programming mainframe applications using technologies such as COBOL and DB2 databases to implement maintenance and enhance mainframe functionality

Skills Required

• Experience in migration of assets from Informatica PowerCenter to IDMC, including testing, validation, and performance tuning
• Moderate experience in data warehousing process design, development, performance & tuning using the Informatica data warehousing tool suite – both IDMC and PowerCenter
• Developing skills in the architecture of data warehouse and data integration strategies and solutions
• Knowledge in relational database technologies, e.g. Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and strong data management and data analysis using SQL
• 2+ years - IDMC (Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud)
• 2+ years - CDI-PC
• 2 years - Expertise in implementation of large, complicated models and processes
• 3 years - Experience in technical writing and documentation
• 3+ years - Develop design specifications
• 4+ years - Data analysis
• 4+ years - Data Warehouse – experience in data warehouse design and development
• 4+ years - Data Warehouse - Experience in requirements gathering for data warehouse
• 4+ years - Data Warehouse - Performance tuning
• 4+ years - Informatica PowerCenter
• 2 years - DB2
• 2+ years - SQL Server
• 2+ years - Knowledge of Kimball data warehouse design principles
• 3+ years - Ability to navigate and query a relational database (Oracle) to develop reports
• 3+ years - Respond to customer requests (verbally and in writing) *
• 3+ years - Develop Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Procedures
• 3+ years - Identify defects
• 3+ years - Ability to develop and implement quality assurance processes and procedures including test/use cases
• 3+ years - In-depth knowledge of system development life cycle deliverables for each phase of development

Skills Desired – A Plus To Have

• 2+ years - Demonstrated experience in the design and utilization of performance measures and reports
• 3+ years - Business Objects or other BI tools
• 2+ years - Dashboarding/Tableau
• Rate depends on experience
• Candidates authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We can accept H1b, , TN, and other valid work visas for IT. However, we cannot accept OPT or CPT visas at this time.
• Companies submitting candidates should only submit direct W2 employees for this position.

NOTE: Must be WI resident or willing to relocate at your own expense. Mostly remote but can require staff to come onsite as necessary with sufficient notice.

Candidate will be required to provide their own equipment for this position.

Location: Madison, WI

Contract: 1 year