Duration: 6 Months Contract
Position Summary:
The Informatica developer will work within the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) team to install, update, maintain, monitor and support the Enterprise Data Warehouse/Enterprise Business Intelligence tools, applications and databases. The individual will work to meet stated requirements, develop detailed specifications and unit test plans for implementation. Since EDW works with multiple business units to create cross functional solutions, the Informatica Developer must be able to interface with various business units to understand the requirements and prepare documentation to support development.
The individual must be capable of understanding the object design and the underlying data model of the system. The individual must be comfortable with developing data-centric applications using Teradata, Informatica, able to develop ETL packages, and is expected to develop queries involving complex database structures. The individual must have good communication skills, work well in a team environment, enjoy solving problems and be able to work in a fast paced environment.
Responsibilities:
- Develop Enterprise Data Warehousing solutions
- Install update, maintain, monitor and support Informatica
- Assess new initiatives to determine the work effort and estimate the necessary time-to-completion.
- Create test plans and scenarios for development unit testing.
- Work with peers to carry out QA testing of new development.
- Document new development, procedures or test plans.
- Participate in data builds and deployment efforts.
- Participate in projects through various phases.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Essential Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
- 8+ years’ experience with Informatica
- Experience integrating SAP data into the warehouse using Informatica
- Experience with data warehouse appliance is preferred (i.e. Teradata)
- Experience in data warehousing tools and techniques (i.e. Kimball)
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, team oriented environment.
- Ability to complete the full lifecycle of software development and deliver on time.
- Ability to work with end users to gather requirements and convert that to approved functional and technical specifications.
- Ability to work with IT stakeholders to design and develop operational processes needed to deploy development to production.
- Ability to work with analysts to test and certify development activities for production deployment.
- Strong interpersonal skills with a heads-up programming attitude.
- Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university.
Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
- Experience working in the Media/Entertainment industry
- Experience with MicroStrategy
Role Specific Competencies:
- Must be dependable
- Must have initiative
- Must have strong interpersonal skills and communication
- Must show quality in work
- Must be interested in self development
Skills Required
- 8+ years experience with Informatica
- Experience integrating SAP data into the warehouse using Informatica
- Experience with data warehouse appliance (e.g., Teradata)
- Experience in data warehousing tools and techniques (Kimball methodology)
- Experience developing ETL packages and complex database queries
- Ability to complete full software development lifecycle and deliver on time
- Ability to gather requirements and produce functional and technical specifications
- Experience creating test plans and participating in QA/testing and deployments
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university
- Strong interpersonal skills, communication, dependability, initiative, quality orientation
- Experience with MicroStrategy
- Experience working in Media/Entertainment industry
What We Do
Computech's ability to evolve and be flexible to a dynamic business world is precisely why Computech has been successful for so long. Our mission is to help our customers manage change and transform their businesses through high-quality, cost-effective business information solutions. We offer comprehensive, web-enabled and end-to-end services from within our many areas of expertise. We are a member of the Michigan Minority Supplier Diversity Council and have been honored with their Diamond award four times. We have been taking strides to revitalize Detroit and were one of ICIC's "Inner City 100" in 2013. We are currently CMMI Maturity Level 5 and also a Microsoft and Oracle Certified Gold Partner.
