Mainframe programmer Jobs in Madison, WI

Detailed Job Description: (Please be specific with all job duties required by the hired candidate.) The candidate will be responsible for migrating mappings, mapplets, sessions, and workflows from Informatica PowerCenter to IDMC. Assist in ETL design, development, testing, maintenance, metadata, and implementation of data warehouse initiatives. Understand user requirements and implement solutions that ensure requirements can be achieved through high quality deliverables. Develop ETL mapping specifications for loading information into the data warehouse and for ensuring reliability of information loaded. Seek continuous improvement in performance & tuning of data warehouse and ensure security of data. Works with other IT technical teams and Business users to understand requirements and recommend & implement solutions. Closely supervised with some latitude for independent judgment. Typically requires at least 4 to 5 years of experience or equivalent education.

Ideal candidate will have skills and experience in the following areas:

• Hands on experience migrating complex assets from Informatica PowerCenter

to IDMC

• Knowledge in data warehouse best practice standards

• Moderate skills working with relational and dimensional data models

• Moderate skills working with slowly changing dimensions

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including facilitation of meetings with customers and technical staff

• Knowledge and skills in the project development life cycle process (i.e., planning, analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation, support)

• Demonstrated knowledge and skills in requirements gathering

• Effective interpersonal relations skills, ability to effectively collaborate with others and work as part of a team

• Skills in navigating a large organization in order to accomplish results

• Ability to initiate and follow through on complex projects of both short- and long-term duration

• Excellent organizational and time management skills.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to work independently, assume responsibility for job development and training, researching and resolving questions and problems, requesting supervisor input and keeping supervisor informed

• Proficiency with MS Office suite, MS Visio, and MS Outlook

• Experience programming mainframe applications using technologies such as COBOL and DB2 databases to implement maintenance and enhance mainframe functionality

List any special qualifications & years of experience: (List any specific skills, software, or requirements the position will require. Optional format below)

Qualification Desired Experience

IDMC (Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud) 2+ years

CDI-PC 2+ years

Expertise in implementation of large, complicated models and processes 2 years

Experience in technical writing and documentation 3 years

Develop design specifications 3+ years

Excellent organization, analytical and communication skills 3+ years

Data analysis 4+ years

Data Warehouse – experience in data warehouse design and development 4+ years

Data Warehouse - Experience in requirements gathering for data warehouse 4+ years

Data Warehouse - Performance tuning 4+ years

Informatica PowerCenter 4+ years

DB2 2 years

SQL Server

Knowledge of Kimball data warehouse design principals 2+ years

Ability to navigate and query a relational database (Oracle) to develop reports 3+ years

Respond to customer requests (verbally and in writing) 3+ years

Develop Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Procedures 3+ years

Identify defects 3+ years

Ability to develop and implement quality assurance processes and procedures including test/use cases 3+ years

In-depth knowledge of system development life cycle deliverables for each phase of development 3+ years

Excellent oral and written communication skills 5+ years

Demonstrated experience in the design and utilization of performance measures and reports (nice to have) 2+ years

Business Objects or other BI tools (nice to have) 3+ years

Dashboarding/Tableau (nice to have) 2+ years

Requirements

Top skills:

• Experience in migration of assets from Informatica PowerCenter to IDMC, including testing, validation, and performance tuning (2+ years)

• Moderate experience in data warehousing process design, development, performance & tuning using the Informatica data warehousing tool suite – both IDMC and PowerCenter (4+ years)

• Developing skills in the architecture of data warehouse and data integration strategies and solutions

• Knowledge in relational database technologies, e.g. Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and strong data management and data analysis using SQL (3+ years)