At Lifescale Analytics, we help achieve data driven decisions by leveraging strategic technologies to create innovative solutions, that ultimately help our clients to navigate their ever-changing data landscape. We have an opportunity for a Senior Data Warehouse Analyst. The candidate must reside in Tallahassee, or the surrounding area, and report in office 5 days a week. Telecommuting will not be considered Travel and relocation expenses will not be covered by the client or employer. Work hours are flexible to work hours between 7:00 AM & 7:00 PM and/or Saturdays, either on a rotation or as part of a regular and on-call work schedule.

Applicants responding to this position must be a US Citizen and will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements by currently possessing the ability to view classified government information. Must have lived in the US for the past 5 years.

The Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B, EAD or OPT visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.

Scope of Services:

• Responsible for administration and maintaining Informatica IDMC services including Administrator, Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Profiling, Application Integration, and API Center, ensuring platform stability and optimal configuration across projects.
• Deploy, configure, and upgrade Informatica Secure Agents on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers; implement agent failover, load balancing, and manage cipher suites and secure communications (TLS/SSL). 
• Establish Utilize CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Git, Jenkins) for deployment of mappings, tasks, processes, and other assets across multiple IDMC organizations.
• Maintains and configure platform connections, secure credentials, and secure agent parameter tuning for optimal performance and resource utilization.
• Manage SSO administration with SAML based user access, roles, and security policies, ensuring compliance with organizational standards and data governance requirements.
• Coordinates with infrastructure, security, and data teams to implement best practices in platform operations and administration. 
• Monitors environment performance, identifies issues, and works with development teams to troubleshoot and resolve failures.
• Maintains logs and performs root cause analysis for environment errors or performance bottlenecks.
• Oversees scheduling, notifications, and platform performance metrics to proactively manage SLAs.
•  Perform ongoing Secure Agent health checks, configure log rotation, integrate with enterprise tools, and manage patching processes using CLI and shell scripting on RHEL. 
• Provides platform support for Cloud Data Integration, Cloud Application Integration, and Cloud Data Quality services, including agent upgrades, patches, and coordination with Informatica support.
• Works closely with data engineering and business teams to enable seamless development and deployment of pipelines and workflows. 
• Stays current with Informatica Cloud platform enhancements, new features, and industry best practices to recommend improvements in performance, automation, and scalability of the data integration infrastructure. 

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field. Or equivalent work experience.

Experience & Primary Job Duties/Tasks:

• A minimum of 7 years of IT work experience utilizing data management tools, business intelligence tools, and data warehousing.
• Extensive experience with Informatica PowerCenter and Snowflake is preferred.  
• Strong Data Integration and Data Warehousing experience with Informatica IDMC tools (IDMC tools like IDMC CDI, MI, CAI, etc.,)
• Strong Experience with Data Integration tasks like extraction, transformation, and load (ETL or ELT) tasks
• Experience administering IDMC platform, Secure Agent Infrastructure and Snowflake Data Cloud platform for statewide adoption
• Knowledge of and skill in relational database platforms including DB2, SQL Server, Snowflake and Oracle
• Analyzes transactional data stores and develops data warehouse models to optimize the warehouse for reporting and analytics.
• Experience with Redhat Linux application administration like security patching applications, managing disk filesystems, managing wrapper and auto-startup scripts.
• Strong Experience with IDMC Connectors to perform Change Data Capture solutions like PowerExchange and other widely used connectors like relational, ServiceNow, etc.,
• Assists with the development and maintenance of methods and practices documentation.
• Experience with IBM Mainframes COBOL, JCL, and DB2 analysis.

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

• Experience designing data models for Business Intelligence tools like Power BI and Cognos.
• Experience with Informatica on-premises products like PowerCenter and Data Quality.
• Strong development experience with Snowflake Data Cloud
• Prototypes, builds and tests Power BI and Cognos reports/dashboards.
• Experience with IDMC Cloud Administration and Snowflake Data Cloud Administration.
• Ensures data warehouse metadata is collected and maintained.
• Experience with Informatica IDMC Cloud Performance Tuning
• Experience with Snowflake Data Cloud Performance Tuning

General Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):

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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions utilizing critical thinking skills and analysis.
• Flexibility: open to change, new processes (or process improvement), and new information. Can adapt in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles. The ability to receive and give constructive criticism and maintain effective work relationships with others.
• Interpersonal: Shows friendliness, courtesy, understanding, and politeness to others
• Leadership: Motivates, encourages, and challenges others. Can adapt leadership styles in a variety of situations.
• Problem Solving: Able to identify, evaluate, and use sound judgement to generate and evaluate alternative actions, and make recommendations as accordingly.
• Team Building: Encourages, inspires, and guides others toward accomplishing the common goal as an equal member of the team.
• Quality Assurance: Knowledge of ideologies, techniques and tools for quality assurance and control. The ability to put ideologies, techniques, and tools into practice.

Who we are:

Lifescale Analytics, a small business that provides specialized expertise in data and analytics. Since formed in 2012, the Lifescale Analytics team has years of experience providing a spectrum of customized data management services and solutions including Data Management/Analytics, Big Data Solutions, Cloud Services, Business Intelligence and Data Science that focuses on building strong portfolios and programs. Through experience and innovation, we allow businesses, pharmaceutical companies, financial institutions, and government agencies to manage and proactively make decisions based on their biggest asset, their data. Our specialists are skilled at managing, refining, analyzing, or visualizing information for the specific purpose of increasing the value of IT to benefit from the data science industry.

For more information, please visit our website at www.lifescaleanalytics.com