Cloud Engineer

Senior Operations & Data Engineer (Informatica Specialist); Cloud Engineer

Security Clearance: OIT, FTI (IRS Pub 1075), and CJIS (Fingerprint-based)

Position Objective

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) is seeking a highly specialized Senior Operations and Data Engineer to serve as the primary administrator and technical lead for our Informatica ecosystem. This role is a hybrid of platform operations and high-level data engineering, ensuring that sensitive state and federal data is managed within a secure, high-uptime, and cost-effective environment.

Preferred Qualifications

To be considered for this role, candidates should provide proof of the following:

• Active Informatica Certification: (e.g., Informatica Certified Professional in Cloud Data Integration)
• Background Clearance Readiness: Absolute eligibility to pass OIT, FTI (Federal Tax Information), and CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services) background checks.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Operations & Administration

• Informatica Mastery: Act as the lead administrator for Informatica environments; manage platform uptime, vendor escalations, and patch/versioning communications.
• Environment Provisioning: Configure Informatica, including complex RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) and security permissions.
• Governance & CI/CD: Implement and manage DataOps and CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments for the broader implementation team.
• Financial Stewardship: Configure cost-management features such as Informatica resource monitors, budgets, and consumption tracking; consult on chargeback models.
• Support business processes of data governance and management

Data Engineering & Transformation

• Pipeline Architecture and Metadata Ingestion: Develop robust ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest data from transactional systems (Line of Business) into the analytical Snowflake environment or to ingest metadata and data from Secure Agents into Informatica
• Data Lineage Management: Configure and manage data lineage maps
• Data Quality Profile Management: Design and deploy automated data cleansing and quality-check policies and processes.
• Performance Engineering: Optimize data flows for specific latency and frequency requirements while maintaining credit efficiency.

Primary Deliverables

• Architectural Contributions: Design reviews, Architectural Plans, and Scope Documents.
• Deployment Assets: New account/environment deployments, security schemas, and permission assignments.
• Engineering Assets: Comprehensive ETL Pipeline Design Documents, Mapping Documents, and production-ready Pipelines, data quality profile scores
• Product Backlog & Support Ticket Management; performance reports
• Weekly Status Reports

While OIT supports telecommuting / remote work, it is expected that the contractor performs the work within the our client Colorado and preferably in the Denver Metropolitan Area; there will be occasions where the contractor will have to collaborate with their colleagues and attend in-person meetings in one of the State offices.

Location Requirements

Candidate must be local or willing to commute or relocate. - No preference

Additional Location Details (City, State) : - While OIT supports telecommuting / remote work, it is expected that the contractor performs the work within the our client Colorado.

Information Security Training

Information on Security Training - NOTICE: If you are hired as vendor staff who will have access to state systems or data or as a contractor for one of the state executive branch consolidated agencies, in adherence to Colorado Revised Statute § 24-37.5-401, 403, 404, 405, and 406, and Colorado Information Security Policy (CISP) 002, you will be required to self-register and complete information security training, including but not limited to review and acknowledgement of the Acceptable Use of State Data and IT Resource Policy (AUP) (CISP-018), through the consolidated agency contractor information security training site within 30 days of your contract start date and annually thereafter. Should you be awarded this contract, the state agency will provide the contractor information security training site information to you.

Background Verification

Minimum Verification Requirements - Please complete the following verifications with Info Cubic upon candidate's selection. Additional verifications may be identified by the agency.