Data Warehouse Developer

Novalink Solutions • Madison, WI

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About The Position

The candidate will be responsible for assisting 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. Closely supervised with some latitude for independent judgment. Typically requires at least 4 to 5 years of experience or equivalent education.

Requirements

• Knowledge in data warehouse best practice standards
• Experience with IDMC (Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud)
• 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
• Expertise in implementation of large, complicated models and processes (2 years)
• Experience in technical writing and documentation (3 years)
• Develop design specifications (3+ years)
• Excellent organization, analytical and communication skills (3+ 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 (4+ years)
• IDMC (Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud) (2+ years)
• DB2 (2 years)
• Knowledge of Kimball data warehouse design principals (2+ 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 (3+ years)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (5+ years)
• Moderate experience in data warehousing process design and development (4+ years)
• Data warehouse - performance tuning using the Informatica data warehousing tool suite (4+ years)
• 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 (3+ years)
• Strong data management and data analysis using SQL (4+ years)

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated experience in the design and utilization of performance measures and reports (nice to have) (2+ years)
• Business Objects or other BI tools (nice to have) (3+ years)
• Dashboarding/Tableau (nice to have) (2+ years)

Responsibilities

• Assisting 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed