Informatica Data Quality (IDQ) Administrator

Location: London (twice per week, 3 days remote)

Contract based role inside IR35

Requirements:

• Design, build, tune, install, configure, troubleshoot and administer Informatica Data Quality, EDC and Axon.
• Prior experience installing, upgrading and supporting Informatica IDQ, EDC and Axon including performing software installations, upgrades and code migrations between environments.
• Proficiency in Informatica Data Quality 10.X and Informatica EDC 10.5.X and Axon 7.3.X administration and troubleshooting and environments set-up.
• Strong implementation of data profiling, command line utilities, creating score cards, creating reference tables and documenting Data Quality metrics/dimensions like accuracy, completeness, duplication, validity, consistency.
• Implementation of Data Catalog, Data Lineage, Informatica command line utilities, creating Metadata Resource, running Metadata resource, Data Discovery using Native and Spark/Blaze engine and documenting the configuration and implementing standards.
• Implementation of Axon Data Governance services, command line utilities, integration with SSO, IDQ, EDC, Service Now etc and documenting the Axon configuration (users, filters, workflow process) and best practices.
• Experience in massive data profiling and Data Domain Discovery using IDQ (Analyst Tool).
• Created business rules in Informatica Developer and Analyst tool and integration with Informatica EDC, Axon.
• Good knowledge on all the data quality transformations used throughout development.
• Knowledge on Informatica EDC, Axon best practices and concepts and implementation of DQ, EDC and Axon process.
• Worked on deploying metadata manager like extensive metadata connectors for data integration visibility, advanced search and browse of metadata catalog, data lineage and visibility into data objects, rules, transformations and reference data.
• Provide technical support and work with infrastructure teams to ensure an effective operating environment including throughput, repository sizing, capacity planning, and maintenance.
• Hands-on experience in Unix commands and processes.
• Capable of fine-tuning and improving the performance of IDQ, EDC and Axon systems.
• Understanding of Informatica licenses for IDQ, EDC and Axon.
• Manage the Informatica domain and the security of the domain including domain administrative tasks.
• Manage & archive logs, domain objects, user permissions, and domain reports.
• Generate and upload node diagnostics.
• Understanding of managing infrastructure outages to minimise business impact.
• Understanding of monitoring Informatica environment, loads, server and jobs alerts, capacity planning and ongoing monitoring.
• Responsible for providing Data Quality operations support to the business efficiently.
• Monitor and troubleshoot the end-to-end data integration environment comprised of data sources, workflows and transformations, operating systems, applications, app servers, and networks.
• Analyse and apply patches, hot fixes, upgrades, and Informatica product enhancements.
• Manage all backup, restore, disaster recovery processes and procedures for all Informatica domains and deployments of code through non-production and production environments.
• Customer focused, business driven, and strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong networks across the client organisation.
• Strong verbal/written communication and team building skills.

Preferred:

• Prior experience installing, upgrading and supporting Informatica Data Quality, EDC and Axon.
• Certified Informatica Data Quality Developer/Admin.
• A basic understanding of application integration and prior experience with ETL, Data Catalog, Data Lineage and Data Governance tools.
• FTP management experience and NTFS file permissions knowledge.
• Experience with Active Directory and integrating Active Directory with applications using LDAP.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to quickly identify, isolate, and resolve technical problems.
• Develop workflows and tools that automate data loading processes and help to ensure data quality and integrity.
• Network topology knowledge required.
• Knowledge of Chef (Configuration Management tool).
• Understanding of NFS mounts, hands-on experience in Unix command and processes.
• Knowledge of end-to-end data integration environment comprised of data sources, workflows and transformations, operating systems, applications, app servers, and networks.

Extra:

• Manage and support technical information.
• Promote and document all Data Management processes and procedures related to data quality and governance.
• Applies a broad range of competencies to develop solutions to complex problems.
• Influences others to achieve objectives.
• Often provides specialized/technical/functional guidance to others within department and/or business asset.