Data Warehouse Analyst//F2F interview

4 Scope of Services

Responsible for gathering and assessing business information needs and preparing system requirements. Performs analyses, development, and evaluation of data mining in the Snowflake cloud data warehouse environment which includes data design, database architecture, and data management utilizing Informatica PowerCenter, Intelligent Data Quality, and Enterprise Data Catalog. Uses data mining and data analysis tools including Power BI and Tableau. Reviews and validates data loaded into the data warehouse for accuracy. Interacts with user community to produce reporting requirements. Provides technical consulting to users of the various data stores and advises users on conflicts and inappropriate data usage. Responsible for prototyping solutions, building solutions, preparing test scripts, and conducting tests for Snowflake data population including data replication, extraction, loading, cleansing, and transforming the data. Responsible for enterprise data modeling. Maintains knowledge of software tools, languages, scripts, and shells that effectively support the Snowflake cloud data warehouse environment.

5 Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field is required. Equivalent work experience may substitute for the degree requirement.

6 Experience

At least 7 years of IT experience utilizing data management, business intelligence tools, and strong foundation-building data warehousing solutions. Extensive experience with Informatica IICS Cloud Data Integration tools and Snowflake is preferred.

7 Primary Job Duties/ Tasks

1. Strong Data Integration and Data Warehousing experience with Snowflake Data Cloud and Informatica IICS Cloud Data Integration tools.
2. Strong Experience with Data Integration tasks like extraction, transformation, and load (ETL or ELT) tasks
3. Participates in strategic planning for the Snowflake enterprise data warehouse/data-lake-house design and development.
4. Analyzes transactional data stores and develops data warehouse models to optimize the warehouse for reporting and analytics.
5. Coaches and mentors' peers in data warehousing concepts and the tools utilized to analyze data, design the warehouse models, and populate the warehouse.
6. Prototypes, builds, and tests Power BI and Tableau reports and dashboards.
7. Assists with the development and maintenance of methods and practices documentation.

8 Job Specific Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

1. Experience designing data models for Business Intelligence tools like Power BI and Tableau.
2. Experience with Informatica on-premises products like PowerCenter and Data Quality.
3. Experience with ELT with Change Data Capture solutions like PowerExchange.
4. Experience with IBM Mainframes COBOL, JCL, and DB2 analysis.
5. Experience with IICS Cloud Administration and Snowflake Data Cloud Administration.
6. Ensures data warehouse metadata is collected and maintained.
7. Experience with Informatica IICS Cloud Performance Tuning
8. Experience with Snowflake Data Cloud Performance Tuning
9. Experience with Data Governance products, like EDC, Axon, and CDGC

9 General Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs):

The submitted candidate must be able to apply common knowledge, skills, and abilities in the following areas:

1. Initiative: Must be able to comprehend assignments, organize workload, and meet deadlines with little direction. Must be able to monitor and analyze situations to determine the next step.
2. Communication: Can clearly convey information, in both written and verbal formats, to individuals or groups in a wide variety of settings (i.e., project team meetings, management presentations, etc.). Must have the ability to effectively listen and process information provided by others.
3. Customer Service: Works well with clients and customers (i.e., business office, public, or other agencies). Able to assess the needs of the customer, provide information or assistance to satisfy expectations or resolve a problem.
4. Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions utilizing critical thinking skills and analysis.
5. Flexibility: is open to change, new processes (or process improvement), and new information. Can adapt in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles. Ability to receive and give constructive criticism and maintain effective work relationships with others.
6. Interpersonal: Shows friendliness, courtesy, understanding, and politeness to others
7. Leadership: Motivates, encourages, and challenges others. Can adapt leadership styles in a variety of situations.
8. Problem Solving: Able to identify, evaluate, and use sound judgement to generate and evaluate alternative actions, and make recommendations as accordingly.
9. Team Building: Encourages, inspires, and guides others toward accomplishing the common goal as an equal member of the team.
10. Quality Assurance: Knowledge of the ideologies, techniques and tools for quality assurance and control. The ability to put the ideologies, techniques, and tools into practice.