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Informatica Technical Architect Resume

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Whippany, NJ

SUMMARY

  • Over 7 years of MDM experience as a MDM Technical Architect/Consultant, and over 13 years of overall Information Technology professional experience encompassing application and system architecture, application development and support, project management, upgrades and data modelling.
  • Strong expertise in installing and configuring the core Informatica MDM components (Informatica MDM Hub Server and Hub Cleanse).
  • Excellent understanding of MDM concepts.
  • Proficient in developing solutions usingInformatica MDM.
  • Configuring and maintaining various components of the MDM Hub including the schema, staging and landing tables, configuring base objects, Look ups, Hierarchies, display queries, put queries and query groups
  • Expertise in Informatica MDM Hub Match and Merge Rules, Batch Jobs and Batch Groups
  • Knowledge in creating IDD application and configuring application - level properties
  • Created and Configured Subject Areas and Subject Area Groups, related Base Object relationships with Subject Area relationships in IDD
  • Developed User Exits to perform IDD data validation
  • Experience in using SOAP UI to interact with MDM using SIF calls
  • Created Entity Base Objects, Hierarchies, Foreign Key Relationship Objects, Relationship Base Objects, Packages and Profiles using Hierarchy manager.
  • Responsible for creating user groups, privileges and roles to the users using Security Access Manager (SAM)
  • Experience in using and writing UNIX Shell Scripts
  • Extensively involved in writing Oracle, Teradata, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures/ Functions/Cursors/ Packages & Triggers.
  • Worked with various SQL developer tools such as TOAD, Teradata SQL Assistant, SQL Plus, and SQL Developer
  • Expertise in OLTP/OLAP system study, analysis, E-R modeling and developing database schemas like Star Schema and Snowflake schema
  • Experience on providing solution approach and architecture in various proposals for prospective clients and helping the pre sales and sales team.
  • Experience in preparing Microsoft Project for multiple projects and across multiple tracks.
  • Worked on Agile framework and methodologies on certain project and created User Stories, burn down charts and function points. Also played the role of Scrum Master in couple of projects.
  • Strong analytical, logical and problem solving skills and ability to quickly adapt to new technologies by self-learning

TECHNICAL SKILLS

EIM Tools: Informatica MDM Multi-domain, Informatica Data Director (IDD)

Databases: Oracle 7x/8i/9i/10g,11g, SQL Server 2012/2008/2005

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Unix Shell Scripting

RDBMS Tools: TOAD (Oracle), Oracle SQL Developer, SQL*Loader (Oracle), SQL*Plus, Teradata SQL Assistant, MySQL

Modeling Tools: MS Visio

Environment: Windows 2000/ XP, Unix, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, 2008

Packages: MS Office (MPP, Visio, MS Outlook, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS OneNote, MS Lync)

Utilities: Putty, WinSCP, REST Client, mIRC, Beyond Compare, SOAP UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Whippany, NJ

MDM Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Data analysis of existing HCOs and HCPs based on Business Rules and identify discrepancies.
  • Work along with Data Stewards to identify the pain points and identify an approach to fix the root cause.
  • Prepare Project Plan and estimation for the overall project.
  • Work along with business to identify the new HCP flow.
  • Review any impact on all custom IDD user exits.

Technologies: Teradata, Informatica, Unix, Shell Scripting, MPP, Viso

Confidential

MDM Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Identify the probable approach for Infa Upgrade and highlight to business the pros and cons for each approach.
  • Review all customization scripts and impact of any deprecated feature in 10.1 or earlier version.
  • Identify any redundant schema objects not to be a part of Infa 10.1 and plan for their removal.
  • Refer the Product Availability Matrix and ensure the compatibility of the upgrade version.
  • Review of impact of deprecated DB packages to be re-written in Java.
  • Review any impact on all custom IDD user exits.
  • Review all additional features with new version and ensure the benefits are understood to end users.
  • Document all impacts as part of Infa upgrade from 9.5.1 to 10.1 and publish Impact Assessment deliverable to business.

Technologies: Informatica MDM 9.5.1, Oracle 11g, Oracle PL-SQL, Unix, Shell Scripting

Confidential, Miamisburg, Ohio

Technical Architect - MDM

Responsibilities:

  • Identify the overall approach for Infa Upgrade. Consult Infa Upgrade guide, identify challenges with custom solutions in the application.
  • Resolving issues with errors in Hub before initiating the Upgrade process. Working along with Infa support team wherever applicable.
  • Refer the Product Availability Matrix and ensure the compatibility on the upgrade version.
  • Documenting release plan for lower environments (Dev/Cert) and ensure it has all the relevant pre-requisite checks and steps involved in the upgrade process.
  • Involved in requirement elicitation and impact assessment for various enhancements in Infa 9.5 version.
  • Preparing design document with documenting end to end solution.
  • Design logical and physical data model changes.
  • Identifying alternate solution for qucker data loads for new attributes added for business requirments in data model and determination of accurate golden records.
  • Promotion and migration of MDM code to various environments (Dev, Test, Cert, DR and PROD) and extensively testing them.
  • Perform DB queries and data extracts using Oracle SQL Developer and also create PL/SQL Stored procedures for Publish creation.
  • Created new Base Objects and added additional columns to existing Base Object’s as per the Data Model.
  • Updated existing Landing tables and created new Landing tables as per the requirement.
  • Developed mappings using various cleanse functions to cleanse and load the required data to the Staging tables.
  • Many custom functions were created to be used in mappings.
  • Configured the Foreign Key Relationships among the Base Objects and defined the lookups for the staging tables.
  • Used Hierarchies tool to create hierarchical relationships between design objects using entities and hierarchies.
  • Extensively unit tested the code as well as the data that was loaded in Landing, Staging and Base tables
  • Worked closely with the Business in finalizing the Match rules, Validation rules, Trust rules.
  • Developed the Match paths, Match Columns, Match rule sets and Match rules (Exact and Fuzzy) in the Match and Merge Process.
  • Involved in preparing scripts for data profiling activities.
  • Created new Systems and defined the Trust and Validation rules to get the desired golden record
  • Configured Message Queues and setup Message Triggers to send messages to down streams
  • Created Queries and Packages for data manipulation
  • Did schema promotions using Metadata manager to promote changes between all environments from development to production
  • Created new IDD Subject Area Group’s and Subject Areas and configured IDD as per the business requirement
  • Created User Exits for IDD data validation
  • Deployed IDD Configuration by importing BDD Configuration files, Message bundles, Error code bundles and User Exits by clearing cache and redeploying the applications
  • Created roles for different domains and assigned it to users using Security Access Manager (SAM)
  • Exported and Imported the IDD application changes from one environment to another
  • Played a major role coordinating the release (VDD, RFC, coordinating between teams)
  • Worked with Informatica support team for product related issues
  • Responsible for giving access to new users to HUB and IDD in all environments
  • Warranty support for the enhancement releases.

Technologies: Informatica MDM 9.5, Informatica Data Director 9.5, Informatica MDM 10.1, Informatica Data Director 10.1, Weblogic 11 g, Weblogic 12.1.3, TOAD for Oracle, UNIX, SOAP UI, MPP, Viso

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Involve in Design and determination of the Logical Data Model and design of Physical Data Model.
  • Provide Architectural guidance to business on issues they have and provide suitable solution related to MDM Hub, match and merge rules and tuning.
  • Configuration of the Informatica MDM Hub for Base Objects for Party data model and their related Child tables.
  • Creation of queries, packages, creation and configuration of Subject areas for IDD.
  • Promotion and migration of MDM code to various environments (Dev, Test, Cert, DR and PROD) and extensively testing them.

Technologies: Informatica MDM 9.1, Informatica Data Director 9.1, JBoss, Oracle, TOAD for Oracle, UNIX, MPP, Visio

Confidential

Informatica Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Interacted with Business & Data stewards Leads to understand/clarify the business requirements
  • Come up with complete solution of how to load bulk data from spreadsheet in Informatica 9.1 and create golden records.
  • Prepared TDD’s for implementing the solutions as per business needs.
  • Preparation of Logical and Physical data model from the beginning.
  • Scripts for data profiling and identify discrepancies as per business rules from data stewards.
  • Analysis of impact assessment and identifying assumptions and getting sign off from all stakeholders for a successful E2E solution implementation.
  • Coming up with implementation of custom solution for data loads especially for Geography entities where huge volumes were involved.

Technologies: Informatica MDM 9.1, Informatica Data Director 9.1, Weblogic 11 g, Oracle, TOAD for Oracle, UNIX, HP Application Life Cycle Management, Clear Case, MPP, Visio

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Lead estimation activities, review estimates and plan for required budget and resources for successful project execution.
  • Detailed resource planning including people, space, infrastructure and liaison with required groups to fulfill project resource requirements.
  • Preparation and baseline of detailed project schedule, project schedule tracking and managing any deviations to ensure on time delivery of project.
  • Design document reviews and identify and closure on risks, challenges.
  • Prepare a comprehensive quality plan to ensure high quality delivery.
  • Identify risk and mitigation plan and baseline the same along with involved stakeholders to minimize any adverse impact to the project.
  • Schedule, monitor, review and control all project phases involving requirement gathering, design, development, testing and implementation.
  • Build customer relationship by engaging regularly and being SPOC to the customer on project related activities, provide regular reports, value articulation and meet expectations.
  • End to End bottom line responsibility of the project.

Technologies: Clarify 10.1, Oracle, Toad, MPP, Visio

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

  • Understand requirements (both functional and nonfunctional) by going through the specifications
  • Impact analysis of the requirement gathered.
  • Preparation of low level design based on details captured in High level design.
  • Develop artifacts (Code, Documentation, Unit Test scripts) and conduct peer and group reviews.
  • Participation in discussions with customers to gather scope information and perform analysis of scope.
  • Prepare pseudo code in order to deliver design documents as per customer requirements.
  • Training project team members on project processes and provide inputs on process tailoring and quality goals.
  • Ensure defect free deliveries in Production environment.

Technologies: Clarify 10.1, Pl/Sql, Perl

Confidential

Trainee

Responsibilities:

  • Undergoing Confidential training in Open systems.
  • Working on internal assignments and in-house projects.

Technologies: Clearbasic, Shell script, C, C++.

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