Informatica Engineer 2

Summary Description:

The Informatica Engineer provides enterprise-wide administration and production support for the companys Informatica Technologies, Environments, Toolsets, and associated peripherals. Including but not limited to operating, deploying, testing, configuring, monitoring, and performance tuning for the Informatica environments.

Essential Resource Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

Level II

• Maintains an intermediate level of knowledge on Informatica and related technologies appropriate to Excellus.
• Provides overall intermediate operations support for the Informatica environments through daily/weekly/monthly/annually defined maintenance activities.
• Provides intermediate problem determination and resolution on the Informatica environments from both monitoring systems and escalated help desk tickets.
• Provides and reviews recurring informational reports on Informatica performance and capacity metrics and makes recommendations to address tactical and strategic challenges.
• Provides intermediate Informatica support for internal and external projects.
• Works closely with IPM Engineering to ensure that project designs are adequate for production processing (jointly).
• Provides intermediate level of deployment functions for the Informatica environment.
• Works closely with vendors, consultants and other outside professionals regarding Informatica technologies.
• Provides technical assistance and guidance to less experienced engineers
• Coordinates deployment and operation of Informatica installations.
• Introduces small scale process improvement and documentation currency consistently to ensure accurate management of the overall computing and application environment.
• Leads smaller size internal projects as directed by Management.
• Works with all areas to determine the appropriate business need as it relates to interfacing internal/external Informatica requirements to our systems.
• Provides and reviews recurring informational reports on Informatica usage, performance, and capacity metrics.
• Acts as primary contact for the coordination and testing of Informatica environments.
• Provides clear and accurate documentation of procedures, problem resolutions and changes.

Minimum Resource Qualifications:

Level II

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or relevant field (or four additional years related work experience in lieu of bachelors)
• Three years related work experience- Two years of experience administering specified toolset
• Working knowledge of Informatica PowerCenter, PowerExchange and Change Data Capture
• Basic knowledge of Relational Databases. Oracle, DB, Sybase and/or MsSQL
• Basic troubleshooting skills
• Knowledge of UNIX based operating systems and shell scripts- Basic Extract Transform and Load ( ETL ) development
• Informatica based course work and certifications are desired
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Good understanding of Data warehouse concepts
• Perform Informatica platform monitoring activities
• Informatica PowerCenter Administration, which includes: creation of accounts, backing up the repository, migration of mapping and workflow objects across multiple repositories/environments, applying patches and version upgrades, and performance diagnosis/improvement
• Works well with others and participates in meetings/events
• A demonstrated desire for continued growth and skill development
• May require minimal travel

Physical Requirements:

In support of the Americans with Disabilities Act, this resource requirements document lists only those responsibilities and qualifications deemed essential to the position

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Excellus Client Client is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As such, requires all suppliers of temporary staffing resources to affirm the rights of every person to participate in all aspects of employment without regard to race, color, sex/gender, age, disability, religion, creed, citizenship status, national origin, veteran status, military status, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, gender identity, predisposing genetic characteristic, genetic information, or any other status protected under the law