Senior Database Architect

Senior Database Architect: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants & Children (WIC)

Determines database structural requirements by analyzing client operations, applications, and programming; reviews objectives with clients; evaluates current systems; provides database support by coding utilities, responding to user questions, and resolving problems.

Senior 60-84 Months:

Candidate is able to work independently, without assistance and provides guidance to others. May have an advanced education.

• 72 Months Experience using Informatica 8.x or higher in a data warehouse environment including warehousing concepts, design and development of complex mappings, and merging data from multiple source systems including but not limited to ORACLE and flat files.
• 36 Month Experience with Informatica Data Quality processes, approaches, measurement techniques and business cases for data profiling, data cleansing, standardization, match and merge with IDQ 8.x or higher.
• 60 Months Work experience implementing Fine Grain Access Control Audit (FGACA) and Virtual Private Database (VPD) to protect Health Care data such as Medicaid, Pharmacy, and HIPAA Protected Health Information (PHI).
• 60 Months Experience leading the ETL team in shaping and enhancing the overall ETL architecture using Informatica.
• 60 Months Experience writing complex UNIX scripts to validate and ftp files, and for calling Informatica workflows.
• 60 Months Experience converting complex SQL, PL/SQL (stored procedures/functions), as well as SAS code with Oracle 9i, 10g or higher, to Informatica mappings.
• 72 Months Experience in Dimensional Data Modeling for creating logical and physical data models using Erwin.
• 72 Months Experience specifying and conducting system testing (e.g. unit, integration, regression, load, performance) and user acceptance testing.

Daily Tasks will include but not be limited to the following:

• Work in conjunction with the project data migration lead to conduct data analysis of both current and to-be WIC systems, in order to maintain an understanding of current and future needs.

• Collaborate with customers, vendors, and technical workgroups to identify and document data and reporting requirements, reporting processes, gap analysis, and prioritization of reporting needs.

• Create documents describing business flow and function using flow charts and data/process models describing these business functions.

• Develop ETL mappings for migration of data from SYBASE, MS ACCESS to Oracle.

• Create report and dashboard prototypes.

• Participate in development of solutions to meet end user reporting requirements

• Develop data test protocols, including test plans, creation and execution of test scripts, scenarios, and test plans that validate initial business requirements. Test report accuracy and document test results.

• Evaluate implementation strategies and document issues requiring resolution.

• Schedule, facilitate, and record report development meetings as needed.