Data Warehouse Developer

Data Warehouse Developer

Job Description

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.

Design, develop, and maintain relational databases for data storage and data mining. 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.

Career-Development position within field. Requires moderate skill sets and developing proficiency within discipline. Conducts tasks and assignments as directed. Works with moderate supervision with some latitude for independent judgment. Typically requires four to five years experience or equivalent education.

Project details: The candidate will be responsible for assisting in ETL design, development, testing, maintenance, metadata, and implementation of data warehouse initiatives. Works with other IT technical teams and Business users to understand requirements and recommend & implement solutions. Closely supervised with some latitude for independent judgment.

Ideal candidate will have skills and experience in the following areas:
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

List any special qualifications & years of experience:

Qualification - Desired Experience
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
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
Client Privacy Regulations - Yes

Top Skills:
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)

Notes:
This position is currently remote. However, position status is subject to change.

VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.