Job Summary
The Sr. Informatica Administrator (IA) conducts the day-to-day administration of Informatica platforms. In this role, the IA will be responsible for implementation, configuration, maintenance, monitoring, and performance of on-prem and cloud-based Informatica tools and applications; including: PowerCenter (PC) and Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC).
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide full range of administration duties for the Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica IDMC platforms; Manage PC repositories, schedule, and monitor PC workflows; Provision access to PC and IDMC components
- Support development teams
- Manages system maintenance activities including reviewing error logs and user-reported errors, then perform root cause analysis and develop remediation plans
- Develop and manage the implementation of policies, standards, guidelines, and best practices to effectively administer the Informatica environments
- Develop and maintain standard operation procedures for installation, configuration, and other administration tasks
- Automate work items and tasks
- Plan and support the migration of PowerCenter workflows to IDMC
- Proactively monitor, trend, and tune the Informatica environments
- Evaluate access and use through regular audit reports
- Respond to user requests (tickets) in timely manner
- Mentor and train team members on administration duties of Informatica
- Promote code from one environment to another following strict SOX audit guidelines
- Communicate to leadership system health and performance of both production and development environments
- Participate in disaster recovery planning and annual testing
- Provide on call support for incidents related to data integration platforms
- Proactively monitor the platforms to detect issues before they impact users; monitor for: warnings, errors, performance, capacity, configuration, etc.
- Work with vendor to install software patches
- Coordinate work with other database and system administrators
- Troubleshoot software issues
- Support production jobs with performance tuning, metrics, and troubleshooting
Experience and Education Requirements
- Associate’s/Bachelor's Degree (preferred emphasis in technology, engineering, or math related field) or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 4-7 years of experience working with and administering Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica IDMC
- Experience with setup, configuration, and content management of workflows, governance, and integration tools
- Experience with performance, tuning, and troubleshooting of the Informatica platforms
- Experience automating, scripting, and streamlining processes preferred
Skills and Abilities
- Excellent understanding of the following technologies: Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica IDMC platform and services.
- Ability to code and debug PowerCenter workflows (end to end ETL processing)
- Working knowledge of database management systems
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Working knowledge of MS360 platform including: MSExcel, MSWord, Visio, and PowerPoint
- Working knowledge of Active Directory, DNS, file shares, networking concepts, and cloud environments
- Working knowledge of other data integration and ETL tools and applications (e.g. Alteryx, TableauPrep)
- Knowledge of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) concepts and other IT best practices
- Scripting and automation skills using PowerShell or similar scripting/programming language
- Fast, adaptive learner with ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to work in fast paced, multi workstream environment and be able to effectively report on progress, prioritize, and delegate to others where necessary
- Exhibits flexibility and tolerance for ambiguity, strong work ethic, and a results-oriented work style
- Ability to work with others to achieve team goals, as well as mentoring and developing skills of others
- Exceptional customer service skills, leveraging conflict resolution skills where necessary
- Working knowledge of Jira and Confluence
- Organizational, communication, and time management skills
- Interpersonal and presentation skills for interacting with team members and business units
- Analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Strong technical documentation ability
- Knowledge of Azure and GitHub is desired
Other Requirements
- Perform other functions, duties and projects as assigned.
- Regular and punctual attendance
- Minimal travel required (less than 10%)
- After hours and weekends, on-call responsibilities (on a rotating basis, shared with other teammates)
Additional Information
Work Environments
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About F&G
Since 1959, Fidelity & Guaranty Life Insurance Company (F&G) has offered annuity and life insurance products to those who are seeking security in retirement and protection during life’s unexpected events.
As a national Top Workplace1, an Iowa Top Workplace2 and a proud equal opportunity employer, F&G team members are empowered, collaborative, dynamic and authentic. We believe that by embracing these values, we will continue to build and strengthen the company while continuing to be a great place to work.
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