Job Seekers, Please send resumes to resumes@hireitpeople.comOur client has multiple openings for a Business Analyst with a strong background in Informatica. Ideally we are looking for a BA that is experienced with MDM or Product 360.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Work with business and technology subject matter experts to acquire data from technology production systems and make that data available for operational research, reporting, analysis.
- Help to automate and streamline complex manual or semi-automated reporting processes.
- Work consistently to improve data completeness, accuracy, and actionability.
- Develop efficient ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) routines for loading small-to-large amounts of operational data.
- Ensure appropriate indexing is in place to optimize performance of web-based reporting applications fed from team data repositories.
- Enhance/create automated systems to monitor database server health (including storage space, CPU usage, fragmentation, etc.).
- Identify and remediate performance pain points as needed.
- Help make analysis-ready data available to downstream consumers, analysts, applications, etc. within our Hadoop Data Lake.
- Help improve data documentation and accessibility.
- Learn from senior developers/analysts in the areas of data modeling, ETL design, and query efficiency.
QUALIFICATIONS - Analytical and strategic thinking skills.
- Able to quickly learn how to use new software applications.
- Strong organization and communication skills (oral and written)
- Analytical and detail-oriented in all work activities.
- Able to handle and prioritize multiple projects or tasks at a time.
- Able to work cross-functionally and solve complex problems.
- Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and maintain relational databases preferred.
- Demonstrated knowledge writing SQL queries.
- Knowledge of one or more query design tools (i.e., Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Teradata SQL Assistant, Oracle SQL Developer, etc.).
- Knowledge of one or more ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) tools a plus (i.e., Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services, Informatica, Ab Initio, Talend, etc.).
- Skills in query tuning and overall efficient use of database resources preferred.
- Experience with Hadoop and other Big Data tools (such as Hive, Spark, SQOOP, etc.) a plus.