ETL Administrator - FPITTBETLAD46

Immediately Closable Opportunity for

“ETL Environment Support/Administrator”

Location        :             Dallas, TX

Visa                :             US Citizen, GC, GC EAD, TN Permit or H1B

Position        :             Contract

Duration       :             Long Term

Contact         :             732 964 1851 or franklin@ittblazers.com

Position Description:

Roles & Responsibilities:

• This position is primarily responsible for support, maintenance and administration of the Data Integration Environments and Infrastructure. 
• This currently includes Informatica, Ab Initio and SAP Data Services (especially data quality). 
• In addition, the candidate will leverage Informatica development experience to consult with application teams on related topics and may perform small development projects.
• Administer and support the Data Integration ETL Infrastructure, products and environments consisting primarily of Informatica 8.1  and Ab Initio 2.x (and higher)
• Administer and support other Data Integration related Infrastructure, products and environments from above and other vendors including: Data Quality, Data profiling, Metadata Management, etc..
• 24x7 on-call support (on a rotation basis)  in a very dynamic environment with mission critical applications
• Interface with Unix Engineering, DB, Network, etc… teams to perform troubleshooting, debugging, root cause analysis and resolve infrastructure issues
• Interface with Support teams (some offshore), developers, etc.  to perform troubleshooting, debugging, root cause analysis and resolve application issues
• Proactively monitor operations, capacity, etc…and provide performance tuning to system components as required to ensure optimum function of Informatica environments
• Provide input/assist with architecture, implementation and support of failover, high availability, disaster recovery
• Plan, coordinate, communicate, test, implement/Install product upgrades, patches, etc.. (previous experience with release upgrades a plus)
• Build out new application environments/onboard new applications.
• Develop/maintain Infrastructure, Environment Landscape and other relevant/applicable documentation.
• Consult with applications teams as needed on architecture, code development, tuning, best practices, etc..
• Develop/enhance/support HR Interface development projects - design, code, test, implementation, documentation, turnover to support team, etc…(following a project lifecycle methodology)
• Develop/enhance/support data quality development projects - design, code, test, implementation, documentation, turnover to support team, etc…(following a project lifecycle methodology)

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Minimum 8 years of industry experience
• Excellent Informatica (8.x and higher) administration experience/skills installing, configuring, administering and maintaining Enterprise infrastructure/environments
• Excellent  Informatica developer experience/skills using PowerCenter client tools, with a deep understanding of ETL concepts, standards and best practices
• Strong Unix/Linux administration and Korn Shell Scripting experience/skills
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, root cause analysis and problem solving experience/skills
• Good database development, SQL, physical database design and data modeling (Oracle, DB2, Teradata, SQL Server) experience/skills
• Good Project Management and estimation (tasks, work effort, etc..) experience/skills
• Web services/SOA web technologies, JMS Topics, SAP connector experience/skills Self-Motivated, require minimal direction/work independently, team player, share knowledge, build partnerships across the organization with a great customer service attitude
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in order to communicate with peers, business users and technical users.

Other Desirable

• Ab Initio CoOperating System, Continuous Flows, EME, etc… administration and development experience/skills
• SAP Data Integration tools (especially data quality component of Data Services) administration and development experience/skills
• Master Data Management, Data profiling, cleansing, de-duplication, etc.. experience/skills
• Java Development experience/skills