Informatica Adnistrator Resume
MI
SUMMARY
- Around 8+ years of experience in data warehousingand data migration projects using tools like Informatica power center 9.6.1/9.1/8.6/8.1.1/7. x and Power Exchange.
- Good noledge of data warehouse architecture and designing star schema, snow flake schema, fact and dimensional tables, physical and logical data modeling using Erwin.
- Hands on experience in designing data load strategy for slowly changing dimensions and various granular levels of fact tables.
- Installing teh Informatica application server and configuring teh Repository and Integration services in Informatica Admin Console.
- Having noledge of implementing data validation rules and exception handling mechanism while loading dimension and facts.
- Proficiency in data warehousing techniques for data cleansing using IDQ (Informatica Data Quality).
- Experience wif Informartica PowerExchange, PowerCenter Enterprise HA/Grid, Informatica Data Quality.
- Good noledge on data modeling concepts.
- Hands on experience through complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Experience in developing PL/SQL procedures.
- Experience in working wif Oracle, Teradata and MySQL databases.
- Experience in working wif Java, XML and HTTP transformations using Informatica.
- Expertise in UNIX shell scripts and used in Informatica pre/post session operations.
- Expertise in designing teh job dependency schedules using UNIXCronttab and scheduler tools like CTRL - M and Autosys.
- Worked wif PMCMD to interact wif Informatica Server from command line.
- Good working noledge in Unit testing, Functional, System, Performance, User Acceptance Testing.
- Excellent communication, presentation skills, a very good team player and self-starter wif ability to work independently and as part of a team.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
ETL Tools: Informatica Power Center- 9.6.1/9.1/9.0/8.6.1 , Informatica IDQ
OLAP Tools: BusinessObjects,Cognos
Databases: Oracle, DB2, MySQL
Languages: Java, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell Scripting.
Tools: /Utilities: TOAD, SQL Navigator.
Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Linux
Version Control Systems: SCM,PVCS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, MI
Informatica Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Analyzing teh business requirements based on dat building teh technical Design documents.
- Performing software installations and configurations and perform teh Airlock Testing.
- Creating ETL jobs to integrate teh data from different source systems.
- Designing teh custom reports as per teh business requirement.
- Supported theMDM Architect to assist in teh definition and execution for teh overallMDM strategy, wif clear mastery Data Quality andMDMtechniques.
- Analyzing different platforms to implement teh applications.
- Supporting teh production real-time ETL’s and Reports.
- Implementing Best practices for better performance and maintenance.
- Analyzing ongoing implementation requirements and designing teh technical documents.
- Creating users and Groups and assign teh privileges.
- Install teh Informatica application in Linux/Unix System.
- Configuring Domains and nodes in Informatica server.
- Configuring teh Repository and Integration services.
- Configuring teh .profile/.bash profile files
- Monitoring teh logs and update teh configurations to improve teh performance.
- Install and configure teh additional licenses.
- Creating teh connections in Workflow Manager.
- Coordinating wif UNIX team and applythe patches in Informatica Server
- Upgrading Informatica application from 9.0.1 version to 9.6.2 version.
- Configuring Web service in Informatica server.
Environment: Informatica Power Center 9.0.1/9.6.1 , Oracle-11g, Business Objects-XI4, TOAD, UNIX
Confidential
Informatica Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Preparing teh operating system wif pre requisites for Informatica PowerCenter 9.0 environment
- Installing, configuring Informatica Power Center 9.0 environment
- Installing and integrating IDQ 9.0 wif Informatica Power Center 9.0
- Define Informatica best practices and naming standards
- Performance tuning of Informatica code by identifying bottlenecks
- Installing and configuring Informatica Data Quality 9.0
- Applying hotfixes to teh Informatica Power Center environment
- Troubleshooting Power Center related issues for project application teams
- Designing automated script based code migration using Informatica utilities like pmrep
- Developing scripts for command line workflow execution using Informatica utility pmcmd
- Designing metadata repository backup and restore strategy
- Automating Informatica general user and folder setup
- Implementing Operating System profiles
- Designing scripts to monitor Informatica services
- Configuring Native security model and assigning roles and privileges to groups and users
- Work wif Informatica Vendor to debug product related issues
- Code review before migration of Informatica code to testing environment
- Document teh project artifacts and processes
- Updating Data quality address validation dictionaries as per teh subscription frequency
- Designing rollback strategy for production migrations
- Designing and testing disaster recovery strategy
- Benchmark system performance for maximum load capacity and planning for future growth.
- Generating Informatica Power Center statistics using metadata queries
- Configuring native connectivity to database servers like Oracle, Sybase, DB2
- Configuring ODBC connectivity to Sql Server database using. Odbc.ini file
- Designing file directory structure for run time files for Informatica Power Center for optimum performance
- Setup training lab for GM Financial which included setting up Informatica Power Center training environment
Environment: Informatica Power Center 9.0, Oracle-10g, Cognos, RedHat Linux
Confidential
ETL Developer
Responsibilities:
- Developed high level technical design specification and low-level specifications based on business requirements.
- Developed Informatica ETL code using various mappings and transformations for transport of data from different sources to files.
- Involved in teh full development lifecycle from requirement gathering through design, build, QA, deployment and support using power center.
- Used Informatica Data Quality tool to clean teh address data for vendors.
- Developed Data mart for procurement business unit.
- Create a mapping wif Java transformation to retrieve teh procurement documents like PDF, JPEG from BLOB data type columns from oracle database.
- Developed robust Informatica mappings and fine-tuned them to process millions of input records wif estimated throughput.
- Designed teh workflows wif trigger files to create dependencies between workflows to load data in one table after another.
- Used mapping variables and parameters in Informatica mappings to minimize teh code changes and to reuse teh code.
- Created UNIX scripts to run teh Informatica commands thru command line.
- Designed Control table logic to implement incremental loads from source system.
- Created Slowly Changing Dimension to keep history data in target tables.
- Debugging invalid mappings using break points, testing of Informatica sessions, batches and teh target Data.
- Involved in performance and tuning teh ETL processes.
- Worked on estimating Informatica work, planned teh development activities and delivered them on time.
- Worked wif other teams like DBA, Informatica Admin to get teh requirement tasks completed on time.
Environment: Informatica Power Center 9.1, Oracle, OBIEE, TOAD, UNIX
Confidential, TX
ETL Developer
Responsibilities:
- Interacted wif business users for requirement analysisand to define business and functional specifications.
- Documented user requirements, Translated requirements into system solutions and developed implementation plan and schedule using RUP(Rational Unified process)
- DevelopedComplex transformations, Mapplets using Informatica to Extract, Transform and load data into Data marts, Enterprise Data warehouse (EDW).
- Prepared software requirement specifications, business rules interacting wif business units and designed Star schema, logical and physical database design for Domains.
- Designed ER diagrams, logical model (relationship, cardinality, attributes and physical database (capacity planning, object creation and aggregation strategies) as per business requirements.
- Used FLOAD, MLOAD utilities to load data into Teradata tables to achieve better performance.
- Transformed teh data via standardization, cleaning, data repair and deduping.
- Removed duplicate rows from tables through teh process of deduping.
- Developed data Mappings, Transformations between source systems and warehouse.
- Performed code reviews for teh mappings developed by other team members.
- Managed teh metadata associated wif teh ETL processes used to populate teh data warehouse.
- Implemented mappings using Aggregator, Filter, Join, Expression, Lookup and update strategytransformations.
- Used Bteq’s and Teradata Utilities like multiload, fastload, tpump to achieve teh good performance when working on huge volumes of data.
- Tuned performance of Informatica sessions for large data files by increasing block size, data cache size, sequence buffer length and target based commit interval.
- Generated variousError handling and failure recovery strategies.
Environment: Informatica Power Center 8.6, Teradata, MySQL, Cognos, UNIX